LA
PICARA
,
OR
THE
TRIUMPHS
OF
Female
Subtilty
,
Display'd
in
the
Artifices
and
Impostures
of
a
Beautiful
Woman
,
who
Trapann'd
the
most
experienc'd
Rogues
,
and
made
all
those
unhappy
who
thought
her
handsome
:
Originally
,
A
Spanish
Relation
,
Enriched
with
three
Pleasant
NOVELS
.
Render'd
into
English
,
with
some
Alterations
and
Additions
,
By
JOHN
DAVIES
of
Kidwelly
.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
W.
W.
for
John
Starkey
,
at
the
Mitre
within
Temple-Bar
.
1665.
IMPRIMATUR
,
ROGER
L'ESTRANGE
.
Septemb.
30th
.
1664.
To
the
worthily
Honoured
,
Sir
JOHN
BERKENHEAD
KNIGHT
,
Master
of
the
Faculties
,
and
Master
of
the
Requests
to
his
Majesty
,
and
one
of
the
Members
of
the
Honourable
House
of
Commons
.
SIR
,
THe
world
is
come
to
that
improvement
of
experience
,
as
to
account
Dedicatories
,
more
certain
acknowledgements
of
obligation
than
any
Noverint
Universi
,
especially
when
there
is
a
great
distance
of
Quality
between
those
by
whom
they
are
made
,
and
those
to
whom
they
are
directed
.
That
this
should
be
thought
such
,
I
am
rather
pleas'd
,
than
troubled
,
since
,
my
being
oblig'd
,
argues
my
being
known
,
to
you
,
and
consequently
,
that
,
from
the
one
,
I
derive
a
satisfaction
;
from
the
other
,
an
advantage
.
The
last
Piece
,
which
came
abroad
under
my
obscure
name
,
was
The
Travels
of
the
Embassy
from
the
Duke
of
Holstein
,
into
Muscovy
,
and
Persia
.
The
excellent
Person
who
was
the
original
Author
of
it
,
Olearius
,
oblig'd
,
with
us
,
most
of
the
Neighbouring
Nations
,
who
also
rendred
his
work
into
their
several
Languages
.
I
am
told
it
was
not
unkindly
receiv'd
here
;
onely
the
occasion
I
have
to
speak
of
it
now
,
is
,
that
the
coming
forth
of
the
English
Translation
,
with
greater
lustre
,
than
haply
it
had
done
otherwise
,
is
,
among
those
of
some
others
,
due
to
your
encouragement
.
But
I
am
not
to
date
your
notice
of
me
from
that
;
I
must
descend
much
lower
,
to
a
Time
wherein
you
thought
it
dangerous
to
know
,
or
be
known
to
,
many
.
Be
not
startled
;
when
dangers
are
over
,
there
remains
onely
a
pleasing
remembrance
of
them
.
It
was
,
long
before
the
Committee
at
Derby-House
,
was
advanc'd
into
a
Councel
of
State
,
an
Age
since
,
considering
the
subsequent
reign
of
Tyranny
and
Barbarism
,
and
the
perpetual
alarms
and
frights
,
whereto
worry'd
Loyalty
was
every
where
expos'd
.
These
you
have
happily
weather'd
out
,
and
seen
the
contrivers
thereof
at
last
overtaken
by
the
slow
pace
of
divine
Vengeance
,
an
advertisement
to
All
Christians
and
Lay-Elders
,
who
either
gratulate
or
envy
you
the
favours
of
a
Prince
,
for
whom
you
would
have
run
yet
greater
hazards
.
As
to
the
Piece
I
now
present
you
with
,
I
have
onely
this
to
say
.
It
is
a
Spanish
Relation
,
written
by
D.
Alonso
de
Castillo
Savorsano
,
a
famous
Author
of
that
Nation
.
One
of
the
most
refin'd
Wits
of
France
thought
it
worth
his
pains
,
to
render
it
into
the
Language
of
his
Country
,
with
all
the
graces
and
advantages
it
might
derive
from
either
.
I
have
done
it
out
of
the
latter
,
with
a
freedome
of
alteration
and
addition
,
as
my
fancy
led
me
,
to
make
it
the
most
divertive
I
could
in
ours
,
which
is
the
onely
recommendation
of
all
things
of
this
nature
.
My
Author
promises
his
Readers
a
continuation
of
the
Story
,
if
what
is
already
publish'd
be
kindly
entertain'd
:
I
do
mine
,
the
like
,
upon
the
same
precaution
;
but
with
this
particular
inducement
,
That
it
will
give
me
further
occasion
to
assure
the
world
how
much
I
am
,
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
,
and
very
much
obliged
Servant
,
J.
DAVIES
.
Books
Printed
for
and
Sold
by
John
Starkey
at
the
Mitre
betwixt
the
middle
Temple-Gate
,
and
Temple-Bar
in
Pleetstreet
.
Folio's
.
THe
Voyages
and
Travels
of
the
Duke
of
Holstein's
Ambassadors
into
Muscovy
,
Tartary
,
and
Persia
,
begun
in
the
year
1633.
and
finisht
in
1639.
containing
a
Compleat
History
of
those
Countries
;
whereto
are
added
the
Travels
of
Mandelslo
from
Persia
into
the
East-Indies
,
begun
in
1638.
and
finisht
in
1640.
The
whole
,
illustrated
with
divers
accurate
Maps
and
Figures
,
written
originally
by
Adam
Olearius
,
Secretary
to
the
Embassy
,
Englished
by
J.
Davies
of
Kidwelly
.
The
World
Surveyed
,
or
the
famous
Voyages
and
Travels
of
Vincent
le
Blanc
of
Marseilles
,
into
the
East
and
West-Indies
,
Persia
,
Pegu
,
Fez
,
Morocco
,
Guinny
,
and
through
all
Africa
,
and
the
principal
Provinces
of
Europe
.
A
Practical
and
Polemical
Commentary
,
or
Exposition
,
upon
the
third
and
fourth
Chapters
of
the
latter
Epistle
of
Saint
Paul
to
Timothy
,
by
Thomas
Hall
.
B.
D.
Brevia
Judicialia
,
or
an
Exact
Collection
of
approved
forms
of
all
sorts
of
Judicial
Writs
in
the
Common-Bench
,
together
with
their
returns
,
by
Rich.
Brownlow
.
Thesaurus
Brevium
,
or
a
Collection
of
approved
forms
of
Original
and
Judicial
Writs
in
the
King's
Bench
,
with
their
special
Directions
,
by
J.
C.
Action
upon
the
Case
for
Slander
,
or
a
Methodical
Collection
of
thousands
of
Cases
in
the
Law
,
of
what
words
are
Actionable
,
and
what
not
,
by
William
Shepherd
,
Esq
;
.
Guillim's
Display
of
Heraldry
.
Blundel's
Treatise
of
the
Sybels
.
A
General
Collection
of
Discourses
of
the
Virtuosi
of
France
upon
Questions
of
all
sorts
of
Philosophy
,
and
other
Natural
Knowledge
,
made
in
the
Assembly
of
the
Beaux
Esprits
at
Paris
,
by
the
most
Ingenious
persons
of
that
Nation
,
English'd
by
G.
Havers
.
The
Common-wealth
of
Oceana
,
by
J.
Harrington
,
Esq
;
.
Quarto's
.
A
Collection
of
Declarations
,
Messages
,
Speeches
,
Remonstrances
,
&c.
which
passed
betwixt
King
Charls
the
first
,
and
the
long
Parliament
,
in
the
years
1641
,
1642
,
1643.
Richard
Baxter's
Treatise
of
Saving
Faith
.
The
History
of
Gavel-kind
with
the
Etymology
thereof
,
containing
a
vindication
of
the
Laws
of
England
,
together
with
a
short
History
of
William
the
Conqueror
,
by
Sylas
Taylor
.
Andronicus
Comnenius
,
a
Tragedy
,
by
John
Wilson
.
Heraclius
Emperour
of
the
East
,
a
Tragedy
,
by
Lodowick
Carlel
,
Esq
;
.
Octavo's
.
An
Historical
and
Geographical
description
of
the
great
Country
and
River
of
the
Amazones
in
America
;
with
an
exact
Map
thereof
,
Translated
out
of
French
.
The
Shepherd's
Paradise
,
a
Pastoral
,
by
Walter
Mountague
,
Esq
;
.
Aminta
,
the
famous
Italian
Pastoral
,
translated
into
English
.
Plowden's
Queries
,
or
a
Moot
Book
of
choice
Cases
in
the
Common-Law
,
Englished
,
Methodized
,
and
Enlarged
by
H.
B.
An
Exact
Abridgement
of
all
the
Statutes
in
force
and
use
,
made
in
the
16th
,
17th
,
and
18th
.
of
King
Charls
the
first
,
and
in
the
12th
,
13th
,
14th
,
15th
and
16th
.
of
King
Charls
the
second
,
viz.
from
the
4th
.
of
Jan.
1641/2.
to
the
24th
.
of
Novemb.
1664.
by
William
Hughs
,
Esq
;
.
Finch's
Discourse
of
the
Law
in
four
Books
.
Engl.
Tho.
Goodwin
.
Opuscula
Theolog.
Lat.
Tho.
Hall
Apologia
pro
Ministerio
Evangelico
.
Lat.
—
Translation
of
the
second
Book
of
Ovid's
Metamorph.
—
Treatise
against
the
Millenaries
.
The
works
of
the
famous
Mr.
Francis
Rabelais
,
treating
of
the
Lives
of
Gargantua
,
and
his
Son
Pantagruel
,
to
which
is
newly
added
the
Life
of
the
Author
,
translated
out
of
French
into
English
by
Sir
Thomas
Urchard
,
Kt.
Rome
exactly
describ'd
,
as
to
the
present
state
of
it
under
Pope
Alexander
the
seventh
,
in
two
curious
Discourses
written
in
Italian
,
and
English'd
by
J.
B.
Twelves
.
Tho.
Hooker's
Missellanies
in
Divinity
.
Rich.
Baxter's
Call
to
the
Unconverted
.
LA
PICARA
,
OR
The
Triumphs
of
Female
Subtilty
.
The
First
Book
.
THERE
is
a
Treatise
in
the
Spanish
Tongue
,
entituled
IL
PICARO
,
which
being
rendred
into
English
,
under
the
Title
of
THE
ROGUE
,
or
,
The
Life
of
Guzman
de
Alfarache
,
the
humour
took
so
well
in
this
Nation
,
that
He
and
his
Rogueries
were
several
times
committed
to
the
Press
.
The
Design
of
that
Work
was
to
represent
a
Person
,
on
whom
either
Nature
,
or
a
strange
ascendency
of
Mercury
had
bestowed
so
liberal
a
Talent
of
cheating
,
thieving
,
and
circumvention
,
that
he
not
onely
trapan'd
all
he
dealt
with
,
but
also
became
a
Precedent
and
Pattern
to
all
those
,
who
,
out
of
necessity
,
or
inclination
,
have
been
forc'd
to
live
by
their
shifts
,
or
,
as
some
would
have
it
,
by
their
wits
.
The
present
Tract
hath
some
resemblance
to
the
excellent
Piece
before
mentioned
,
inasmuch
as
it
brings
in
a
Woman
,
engag'd
in
as
great
designs
as
those
of
her
Predecessor
Guzman
,
but
with
this
disadvantage
,
that
the
weakness
of
her
Sex
obliges
her
to
make
use
of
the
assistances
of
Men
for
the
better
prosecution
thereof
.
Both
Treatises
were
originally
written
in
the
Spanish
,
a
Language
we
are
oblig'd
to
for
most
pieces
of
this
nature
:
and
as
,
in
the
former
,
the
Relation
is
pleasantly
interrupted
by
certain
merry
tales
and
stories
;
so
in
ours
,
there
is
an
intermixture
of
Novels
,
to
heighten
the
Reader
's
satisfaction
and
divertisement
.
The
draught
I
am
to
give
of
this
Miracle
of
Female
subtilty
may
be
of
very
great
advantage
to
three
sorts
of
persons
.
Those
who
feel
in
themselves
a
certain
disposition
to
be
wicked
,
may
be
admonish'd
,
and
reform
,
before
they
have
occasion
to
repent
;
they
,
who
,
defying
all
advertisement
,
are
resolv'd
to
be
mischievous
,
may
,
out
of
an
apprehension
of
the
ensuing
punishment
,
be
deterr'd
into
caution
;
and
the
innocent
and
vertuous
may
learn
a
lesson
of
prudence
and
circumspection
,
to
avoid
those
snares
that
are
laid
for
them
.
The
things
I
write
are
not
supposititious
,
or
fram'd
in
my
own
imagination
,
but
such
as
really
happened
in
one
of
the
most
eminent
Cities
of
Spain
;
which
yet
if
any
man
have
not
faith
enough
to
believe
,
I
have
no
other
advice
to
give
him
,
but
that
he
would
travel
to
those
places
,
where
our
Scene
lies
,
to
disprove
me
.
As
to
her
Person
,
She
was
young
,
sprightly
,
and
very
beautiful
;
three
dangerous
advantages
,
when
they
are
attended
by
those
endowments
for
which
she
was
no
less
famous
,
to
wit
,
Craft
,
Impudence
,
Hypocrisie
,
and
an
insatiable
longing
for
the
goods
of
other
people
;
and
all
these
strengthned
by
a
bent
of
nature
,
as
being
the
issue
of
Parents
,
who
,
instead
of
giving
a
timely
check
to
these
vicious
inclinations
,
rather
incourag'd
her
in
them
by
their
example
,
as
being
addicted
to
the
same
themselves
.
Seignor
Trapassa
,
Father
to
this
excellent
person
whose
atchievments
we
intend
to
describe
,
had
been
condemn'd
to
the
Galleys
,
for
having
assum'd
to
himself
the
Order
of
the
Knighthood
of
Christ
,
before
he
had
made
the
necessary
trials
,
upon
which
his
Majesty
bestows
that
honour
,
by
the
judgment
of
his
Soveraign
Council
of
Portugal
.
His
design
in
doing
it
,
was
that
he
might
more
conveniently
follow
his
profession
of
stealing
about
the
Court
,
where
he
was
respected
as
a
Knight
,
and
the
better
,
under
that
cloak
,
to
play
those
pranks
of
villany
,
wherein
he
was
such
a
Professor
,
that
the
most
expert
might
have
heard
his
Lectures
.
A
certain
Woman
,
whom
he
us'd
to
trade
withall
,
incens'd
against
him
upon
the
account
of
some
jealousie
,
that
he
reserv'd
not
all
his
kindness
for
her
,
put
in
a
charge
against
him
,
the
issue
whereof
was
,
That
he
got
the
said
preferment
in
the
Galleys
;
where
he
pass'd
over
the
term
of
his
condemnation
,
and
somewhat
more
.
He
was
dispos'd
into
that
Squadron
,
which
is
called
the
Squadron
of
Spain
,
and
translated
from
Toledo
to
S.
Mary's
Port
,
with
the
rest
who
were
in
the
same
Predicament
of
Slavery
.
He
had
made
an
attempt
to
recover
his
liberty
,
but
the
plot
being
discover'd
,
he
was
put
to
greater
hardship
than
he
had
otherwise
been
.
As
soon
as
the
Lady
Estephania
(
so
was
called
the
jealous
Woman
,
who
had
shewn
him
that
trick
)
understood
that
he
was
gone
to
exercise
that
painful
employment
,
though
she
were
not
of
an
over-compassionate
nature
,
very
seriously
repented
her
,
that
she
had
been
the
cause
of
his
misery
,
and
consider'd
that
she
could
not
make
a
better
satisfaction
for
that
injury
,
than
by
proffering
her self
to
him
in
marriage
as
soon
as
the
time
of
his
penance
were
expir'd
.
What
inclin'd
her
the
more
to
this
kind
of
reparation
,
was
,
that
she
had
already
had
a
Daughter
by
him
,
which
Daughter
is
the
subject
of
the
present
Treatise
.
With
this
resolution
,
she
left
the
Court
,
and
went
to
Sevil
,
hoping
,
in
that
great
and
famous
City
,
she
might
the
sooner
hear
some
news
of
him
,
whom
she
had
reduc'd
to
so
great
misery
,
and
whom
she
would
gladly
once
more
see
at
liberty
.
Estephania
had
a
house
very
well
furnish'd
,
being
a
Genoese's
Widow
,
who
had
left
her
very
well
to
pass
.
That
,
and
the
care
she
took
to
go
somewhat
high
in
cloaths
,
gain'd
her
such
a
repute
at
Madrid
,
that
she
was
look'd
on
as
a
person
of
some
quality
:
but
she
soon
lost
that
,
when
the
history
of
her
life
came
to
be
known
,
especially
this
particular
of
it
,
that
,
out
of
an
excess
of
jealousie
,
she
had
preferr'd
to
the
Galleys
a
young
Gallant
,
whom
she
had
often
entertain'd
in
a
feather-bed
.
That
imprudent
sally
made
her
abhominable
in
the
sight
of
her
most
intimate
acquaintances
of
her
own
sex
,
whose
indignation
she
allow'd
to
be
the
more
just
against
her
,
when
she
consider'd
,
that
she
had
cast
away
her self
on
an
impostor
and
a
rascal
fit
onely
for
the
Galleys
.
These
reasons
and
reproaches
oblig'd
her
to
remove
from
Madrid
to
Sevil
,
taking
all
she
could
conveniently
carry
along
with
her
,
and
selling
the
rest
,
which
brought
her
in
a
considerable
summe
of
mony
.
Having
thus
order'd
her
affairs
,
she
went
towards
Sevil
by
Coach
,
with
two
Maids
to
wait
on
on
her
,
intending
to
continue
there
,
till
the
time
of
Trapassa's
serving
in
the
Galleys
were
expir'd
;
which
being
near
out
,
(
for
she
kept
an
exact
account
of
it
)
she
understood
that
the
Spanish
Galleys
were
arrived
at
S.
Mary's
Port.
She
immediately
went
thither
,
not
so
highly
clad
as
she
was
wont
to
go
at
Sevil
,
but
in
a
more
modest
habit
,
that
it
might
not
be
afterwards
cast
into
her
dish
,
that
she
had
been
the
wife
of
a
Galley-slave
,
and
withal
one
she
had
courted
out
of
his
chains
into
her
embraces
.
She
immediately
understood
that
her
Gallant
was
in
the
Captain
's
own
Galley
,
very
jocund
,
and
advanced
to
the
office
of
a
Fore-man
,
a
preeminence
among
the
Slaves
which
exempts
them
from
rowing
,
and
he
had
acquir'd
it
of
the
General
by
the
pleasantness
of
his
conversation
;
nay
,
had
he
not
had
that
charge
,
he
was
by
this
time
grown
so
well
acquainted
with
the
Galleys
,
that
he
minded
not
much
whether
ever
he
got
out
of
them
.
But
the
arrival
of
Estephania
remedi'd
all
.
Her
first
business
was
to
treat
about
his
liberty
,
speaking
to
those
persons
on
whom
the
business
depended
,
and
presenting
them
with
certain
summs
of
mony
,
before
Trapassa
had
any
knowledge
of
her
design
,
whom
he
could
not
have
seen
,
as
having
not
yet
stirr'd
out
of
the
Galley
.
So
that
he
was
extremely
astonish'd
,
when
he
came
to
understand
,
that
some
persons
did
not
onely
use
bare
solicitations
in
order
to
his
liberty
,
but
were
also
liberal
of
their
mony
to
procure
it
,
yet
could
it
never
come
into
his
thoughts
,
that
his
old
Love
Estephania
should
have
chang'd
the
cruel
humour
,
he
had
left
her
in
,
into
one
so
mild
and
obliging
.
All
things
being
concluded
and
agreed
upon
for
Trapassa's
liberty
,
his
chains
were
knock'd
off
,
and
he
was
told
,
that
he
might
go
whether
he
would
.
In
the
mean
time
he
could
not
imagine
who
had
procur'd
him
that
happiness
,
which
was
no
small
one
,
inasmuch
as
though
the
poor
Slaves
have
serv'd
out
the
time
of
their
condemnation
,
yet
are
there
some
causes
found
that
hinder
their
being
set
at
liberty
,
nay
some
are
so
unhappy
,
that
having
been
condemn'd
for
four
years
,
are
forc'd
to
stay
there
five
,
or
six
.
Seignor
Trapassa
was
extremely
astonish'd
,
when
he
found
himself
in
the
presence
of
his
Estephania
,
and
understood
,
that
it
was
onely
by
her
means
he
had
recover'd
his
liberty
;
she
receiv'd
him
into
her
arms
,
and
he
,
to
express
his
gratitude
,
return'd
so
obliging
a
reception
with
the
like
caresses
;
so
that
the
kindness
he
then
receiv'd
of
her
,
made
him
forget
the
resentment
he
might
have
of
the
miseries
she
had
occasion'd
him
.
He
was
troubled
to
find
her
in
a
much
different
habit
from
that
he
had
left
her
in
at
Madrid
,
for
he
knew
not
that
it
was
out
of
design
she
had
so
disguis'd
her self
,
nor
could
she
at
that
time
give
him
an
account
of
it
,
by
reason
of
the
Captain
and
others
being
present
,
who
had
conducted
him
,
and
whom
she
was
oblig'd
to
entertain
at
dinner
.
Having
treated
them
as
well
as
she
could
,
all
withdrew
,
save
onely
Trapassa
,
who
continu'd
still
in
the
Inne
with
his
Mistress
.
Finding
themselves
alone
,
they
reiterated
their
caresses
,
and
outvy'd
one
the
other
in
assurances
of
the
satisfaction
they
conceiv'd
at
that
interview
.
Trapassa
render'd
her
his
thanks
with
all
the
grateful
acknowledgments
imaginable
,
for
the
pains
she
had
taken
,
and
the
goodness
she
had
had
to
deliver
him
out
of
the
cruel
torments
he
endured
.
On
the
other
side
,
Estephania
begg'd
his
pardon
for
the
mischief
she
had
done
him
,
and
all
the
miseries
her
malice
had
caus'd
him
,
telling
him
withall
,
that
she
could
not
imagine
any
other
way
to
repair
the
injury
she
had
done
him
,
than
by
joyning
hands
with
him
in
matrimony
,
if
he
lik'd
the
proposal
,
since
she
already
had
a
daughter
by
him
,
and
wealth
enough
for
both
of
them
to
live
at
their
ease
.
I
leave
you
to
judge
whether
this
motion
were
not
pleasing
to
Trapassa
,
one
that
would
have
snapp'd
at
the
least
proffer
of
good
fortune
,
upon
his
coming
out
of
so
severe
a
School
of
penance
.
As
if
he
had
forgot
the
former
,
his
Answer
was
in
renew'd
embraces
,
thereby
satisfying
her
with
what
joy
he
accepted
of
the
advantageous
offer
she
made
him
,
entreating
her
to
give
him
an
account
of
his
Daughter
,
whom
he
was
passionately
desirous
to
see
.
Estephania
over-joy'd
to
find
his
sentiments
so
consonant
to
her
expectation
,
presented
him
with
a
noble
riding-suit
,
which
she
had
purposely
caus'd
to
be
made
for
him
,
and
the
next
morning
betimes
they
took
their
journey
towards
Sevil
,
where
Trapassa
finding
his
Daughter
(
who
might
then
be
about
eight
years
of
age
)
he
acted
a
part
he
never
had
done
before
,
that
is
,
was
solemnly
married
to
the
Lady
Estephania
,
in
facie
Ecclesiae
.
They
chang'd
their
lodgings
,
and
indeed
the
quarter
of
the
City
where
they
had
liv'd
,
being
resolv'd
to
lead
another
kind
of
life
than
they
had
done
before
.
For
Estephania
imagining
,
that
the
hardship
which
her
dear
Love
had
endur'd
in
the
Galleys
,
had
abated
somewhat
of
his
former
extravagancies
,
and
that
the
grey
hairs
he
had
brought
thence
would
reclaim
him
from
his
debauches
,
endeavour'd
to
get
him
some
creditable
employment
in
Sevil
,
as
well
to
keep
him
out
of
idleness
,
as
out
of
a
consideration
that
he
should
bring
in
something
towards
the
house
.
But
an
untoward
disposition
,
such
as
was
that
of
Trapassa
,
is
not
so
easily
brought
into
discipline
,
and
if
he
had
as
yet
behav'd
himself
with
some
reserv'dness
,
it
proceeded
from
the
influence
,
which
the
perpetual
admonitions
and
rebukes
of
his
wife
had
over
him
,
and
not
out
of
any
bent
to
vertue
in
his
nature
;
so
that
,
through
his
own
neglect
,
he
could
find
himself
no
other
employment
,
than
that
of
frequenting
Gaming-houses
,
and
Plays
,
and
those
other
places
,
where
those
,
who
are
naturally
inclin'd
to
sloth
,
think
fit
to
spend
the
greatest
part
of
their
time
.
This
carriage
of
his
extremely
troubled
his
wife
,
who
yet
willing
to
avoid
all
matrimonial
discontents
,
wink'd
at
his
disorders
,
and
endeavour'd
to
find
some
comfort
in
the
conversation
of
her
Daughter
,
whose
beauty
was
already
become
the
common
discourse
of
the
City
.
Idleness
,
the
seminary
of
all
sorts
of
vices
,
by
degrees
brought
Trapassa
into
his
former
custom
of
Gaming
(
the
Sea
wherein
so
many
Estates
are
wrack'd
)
so
that
beginning
at
first
to
play
for
little
(
as
if
it
had
been
rather
for
Recreation
than
otherwise
)
but
afterwards
venturing
more
and
more
,
he
in
a
short
time
made
a
shift
to
lavander
whatever
he
could
lay
hands
on
of
his
wife's
.
She
was
sensible
enough
,
that
many
of
her
things
were
wanting
,
and
doubted
not
but
her
Husband
was
the
conveyer
of
them
;
but
all
she
could
do
was
to
weep
,
and
bemoan
her self
,
charging
none
with
her
misfortune
,
but
her self
.
Trapassa
perceiving
her
so
much
troubled
,
promised
reformation
;
but
the
damn'd
lechery
of
Gaming
prevailing
more
and
more
upon
him
,
his
luck
was
such
,
that
in
four
years
he
either
sold
or
pawn'd
whatever
was
worth
it
in
his
house
.
Finding
himself
at
last
reduc'd
to
very
great
necessities
,
he
began
to
cast
about
how
he
might
recover
himself
a
little
:
he
would
have
been
content
his
wife
(
who
was
as
yet
handsome
enough
)
should
have
condescended
to
lewdnesses
unworthy
her
recover'd
reputation
,
but
he
perceiv'd
she
was
grown
so
honest
,
and
so
alter'd
from
what
she
had
been
before
,
that
he
had
not
the
confidence
to
speak
to
her
of
any
such
thing
.
For
she
was
so
extremely
troubled
at
the
disorder'd
demeanour
of
her
husband
,
that
she
grew
in
a
manner
careless
of
all
things
;
nay
she
little
minded
the
education
of
her
daughter
,
who
was
by
this
time
come
into
the
—
teens
,
and
,
by
reason
of
these
distractions
in
the
family
,
liv'd
as
she
pleas'd
her self
,
appearing
every
day
at
her
window
,
and
that
not
with
little
affectation
.
The
grief
and
regrets
which
poor
Estephania
conceiv'd
at
her
being
reduc'd
to
necessity
,
heightned
by
the
discontent
caus'd
her
by
her
husband
,
brought
her
into
a
sickness
,
whereof
she
died
about
a
year
after
,
with
a
perfect
repentance
for
her
past
mis-carriages
,
reinforcing
at
that
extremity
all
her
spirits
,
that
she
might
die
as
happy
a
death
,
as
her
husband
had
occasion'd
her
living
an
unhappy
life
.
She
was
very
poorly
buried
,
Trapassa
having
not
the
means
to
bestow
any
more
cost
upon
her
than
he
did
.
He
was
in
his
turn
troubled
,
at
her
death
,
and
acknowledg'd
,
but
too
late
,
his
great
oversight
in
that
he
had
so
long
continu'd
his
debauches
,
and
that
if
he
had
follow'd
her
good
advice
,
he
might
have
liv'd
handsomely
all
the
rest
of
his
days
.
All
the
comfort
he
had
now
left
,
and
all
the
hope
on
which
he
grounded
his
happiness
,
was
the
beauty
of
his
Daughter
,
which
he
thought
such
,
as
would
bring
him
a
Son-in-law
,
that
might
relieve
his
necessities
;
never
considering
that
the
vertue
of
the
Age
consists
in
wealth
,
and
that
all
perfections
and
graces
have
no
charm
in
them
,
if
depriv'd
of
the
attractions
of
riches
.
The
unfortunate
Trapassa
,
as
crush'd
as
he
was
with
miseries
,
continu'd
still
a
constant
frequenter
of
the
Gaming-houses
,
not
indeed
to
play
himself
,
for
he
had
not
wherewith
,
but
to
receive
what
he
had
sometimes
given
,
to
wit
,
the
Barats
,
a
little
present
the
Spaniards
are
wont
to
bestow
on
those
,
who
look
on
them
while
they
are
playing
,
when
they
have
had
a
good
hand
,
and
this
is
commonly
the
surest
revenue
of
those
who
have
ruin'd
themselves
by
Gaming
.
The
little
aboad
which
Trapassa
made
at
his
own
house
gave
his
daughter
the
greater
freedom
to
follow
her
own
inclinations
.
She
would
be
perpetually
at
the
window
,
which
induc'd
abundance
of
young
Gallantillos
to
make
their
appearances
in
the
street
she
liv'd
in
.
The
Father
,
who
was
not
ignorant
of
what
pass'd
,
though
he
might
have
prevented
,
yet
wink'd
at
it
,
out
of
the
desire
he
had
to
see
his
daughter
advantageously
match'd
,
that
she
might
afterwards
help
him
out
of
his
necessities
.
This
indeed
was
the
most
likely
means
he
had
to
recover
himself
.
He
thereupon
left
the
little
Rufina
(
so
was
his
daughter
called
)
to
her
own
liberty
,
hoping
,
that
,
by
her
insinuations
,
she
would
in
time
have
the
disposal
of
their
hearts
and
purses
who
courted
her
.
His
design
prov'd
more
fortunate
than
he
had
imagin'd
,
inasmuch
as
among
the
many
,
who
languish'd
for
her
,
there
hapned
to
be
one
very
rich
,
who
was
over
head
and
ears
in
love
with
Rufina
.
She
assum'd
the
title
of
Donna
,
a
title
belongs
onely
to
women
of
noble
extraction
,
because
her
Mother
had
taken
it
before
her
,
which
if
she
had
not
,
her
Daughter
would
not
have
balk'd
it
,
as
being
an
honour
which
costs
little
or
nothing
.
The
person
who
was
so
remarkably
her
Suitor
had
the
Agency
of
some
affairs
of
Peru
,
one
whose
credit
much
exceeded
his
estate
,
was
accounted
very
rich
in
the
ensuring
Office
belonging
to
the
Indies
,
and
about
fifty
years
of
age
.
Though
he
knew
well
enough
that
his
Mistress
had
no
fortune
,
and
that
he
must
withall
be
charg'd
with
the
ruin'd
person
her
Father
,
yet
was
he
resolv'd
to
take
her
,
for
better
,
for
worse
;
whence
may
be
deduc'd
this
observation
,
That
when
Love
becomes
Master
of
an
aged
person
,
it
is
a
very
hard
matter
to
dispossess
him
.
Laurentio
de
Saravia
(
so
was
this
amorous
Elder
called
)
was
so
besotted
with
the
beauties
of
Rufina
,
that
the
Treaty
of
Marriage
was
concluded
in
less
than
eight
daies
,
and
he
had
the
earnest
of
a
happiness
,
which
he
thought
would
have
lasted
as
long
as
he
liv'd
.
He
took
his
Father-in-law
into
his
house
,
though
he
knew
him
to
be
a
great
Gamester
.
The
first
days
of
the
Nuptials
were
spent
as
they
are
wont
to
be
in
such
Solemnities
;
he
gave
his
wife
new
cloaths
,
rings
,
and
jewels
,
yet
suitably
to
her
condition
;
for
being
a
person
pretty
well
stricken
in
years
,
he
was
no
lover
of
excess
,
an
humour
which
pleas'd
not
Rufina
,
who
minded
nothing
so
much
as
gaudy
cloaths
,
and
long'd
for
whatever
she
saw
worn
by
women
of
a
quality
much
above
hers
;
and
this
abated
not
a
little
of
the
love
she
bore
her
husband
,
who
was
of
an
Indian
disposition
,
covetous
,
and
careful
to
preserve
his
estate
.
Knowing
,
as
I
told
you
,
that
his
Father
was
a
great
Gamester
,
and
a
person
run
out
of
all
he
had
,
he
trusted
not
his
wife
with
the
keeping
of
his
Cash
,
no
not
with
the
management
of
what
was
spent
in
the
house
;
which
quite
defeated
the
hopes
of
Trapassa
,
who
imagin'd
,
that
,
upon
the
marriage
or
his
daughter
,
he
should
command
what
were
in
her
power
;
so
strangely
was
he
possest
with
the
restless
spirit
of
gaming
.
Rufina
,
perceiving
her
husband
was
taken
up
with
his
affairs
,
took
occasion
to
go
abroad
every
morning
,
upon
pretence
of
a
certain
devotion
she
had
undertaken
,
that
it
might
please
God
to
make
her
a
Mother
.
With
this
excuse
she
blinded
her
husband
,
but
the
true
motive
of
her
sallies
,
was
to
shew
her self
in
the
Streets
and
at
Church
.
The
first
of
those
who
upon
sight
of
her
,
fell
in
love
with
her
,
was
a
Citizen's
son
of
Sevil
,
one
of
the
most
debauch'd
young
men
of
his
time
,
one
,
to
say
all
of
him
in
a
word
,
who
had
brought
himself
almost
to
the
same
condition
as
Trapassa
:
he
was
descended
of
vertuous
Parents
,
but
his
disorders
had
drown'd
their
good
reputation
.
His
name
was
Ruperio
,
a
Spark
of
a
goodly
presence
,
and
one
who
prov'd
so
fortunate
in
the
courting
of
Rufina
,
that
she
was
wholly
at
his
devotion
,
hoping
to
receive
such
great
presents
from
him
,
as
might
put
her
into
cloaths
sutable
to
her
beauty
,
which
was
more
than
she
could
have
expected
from
the
Miser
her
husband
.
The
first
demand
she
made
to
him
,
was
very
modest
,
considering
it
came
from
a
Merchant's
wife
,
to
wit
,
that
he
would
bestow
on
her
a
Gown
of
the
same
Stuff
and
Fashion
as
a
Neighbour
of
hers
had
,
whom
she
named
,
and
withall
a
gold-watch
to
hang
by
her
side
,
promising
him
in
requital
of
that
favour
that
she
would
not
deny
him
any
that
lay
in
her
power
.
Ruperio
,
who
by
his
insolent
boastings
had
raised
her
into
a
persuasion
of
his
being
a
person
that
had
thousands
at
his
command
,
promis'd
to
do
what
she
desir'd
;
but
being
not
able
to
perform
,
he
set
his
wits
to
shew
that
trick
,
which
his
purse
could
not
.
He
happened
to
be
well
acquainted
with
her
whose
Gown
was
to
be
his
pattern
,
he
went
to
her
,
and
intreated
her
to
lend
it
him
,
pretending
it
was
onely
for
the
representation
of
a
Comedy
,
which
was
to
be
acted
in
a
Nunnery
.
It
could
not
be
deni'd
on
such
an
account
;
so
that
at
the
end
of
three
days
,
which
time
he
told
Rufina
that
it
would
be
making
,
he
sent
it
to
her
house
,
while
her
husband
was
abroad
in
the
City
about
his
business
.
The
Watch
he
told
her
was
not
yet
finish'd
,
but
that
as
soon
as
it
were
,
it
should
be
brought
her
,
intreating
her
in
the
mean
time
to
accept
of
another
of
lesser
value
,
as
a
hostage
for
the
appearance
of
the
other
.
She
return'd
him
her
hearty
thanks
,
was
extremely
pleas'd
to
see
that
he
had
been
so
punctual
,
and
to
shew
her self
grateful
,
she
gave
him
all
the
satisfaction
he
could
expect
from
her
.
He
took
leave
of
Rufina
,
who
resolv'd
to
persuade
her
husband
,
that
a
certain
Kinsman
of
hers
had
sent
her
that
Gown
from
Madrid
,
that
so
he
might
not
be
jealous
of
her
.
On
the
other
side
,
Ruperio
was
contriving
how
to
get
it
return'd
to
her
,
of
whom
it
had
been
borrowed
.
Saravia
not
knowing
him
,
he
effected
his
business
by
this
cheat
.
About
three
or
four
days
after
the
delivery
of
the
Gown
to
Rufina
,
he
puts
himself
into
the
habit
of
a
Serving-man
,
and
just
at
dinner
time
comes
to
Saravia's
house
,
saying
that
he
was
Servant
to
the
Lady
to
whom
that
Gown
belonged
.
Saravia
order'd
him
to
be
brought
in
,
which
being
done
he
told
him
that
he
was
sent
by
his
Mistress
for
the
Gown
she
had
lent
Madam
Rufina
,
onely
to
see
the
fashion
of
it
.
Saravia
turning
towards
his
wife
,
ask'd
her
what
Gown
the
fellow
would
have
?
She
presently
knowing
her
Gallant
,
Friend
,
said
she
to
him
,
come
hither
to
morrow
morning
,
and
you
shall
have
it
.
But
my
Mistress
,
replies
Ruperio
,
hath
commanded
me
not
to
come
back
without
it
;
for
this
afternoon
she
is
to
go
a
Christning
,
at
which
she
is
Godmother
,
and
she
must
needs
have
it
.
How
shall
I
know
,
replies
Rufina
,
that
you
have
any
relation
to
that
Lady
,
and
that
you
now
come
from
her
?
The
crafty
Companion
perceiving
what
she
would
be
at
,
and
that
she
had
no
mind
to
return
it
,
The
Gown
,
said
he
,
is
of
such
a
colour
,
the
Trimming
such
and
such
,
and
it
was
sent
you
in
a
green
cloth
,
done
about
with
a
silk
fringe
.
Saravia
hearing
him
give
such
particular
marks
,
Sweet-heart
,
said
he
to
his
wife
,
you
have
nothing
to
reply
,
for
since
he
demands
it
with
so
much
earnestness
,
it
must
needs
be
his
Mistress
stands
in
need
of
it
,
and
if
you
are
unwilling
to
rise
out
of
your
place
,
give
me
the
key
of
your
Trunk
where
it
is
,
and
I
will
go
and
fetch
it
.
Rufina
upon
this
had
not
a
word
to
say
,
and
at
last
ready
to
burst
with
indignation
,
she
rose
from
the
Table
,
took
the
Gown
out
of
the
Trunk
,
and
delivering
it
to
Ruperio
,
Present
my
humble
service
,
said
she
,
to
Madam
Leonora
,
and
tell
her
,
I
beg
her
pardon
,
that
I
sent
it
not
home
sooner
,
which
I
could
not
,
in
regard
she
hath
not
been
here
since
who
borrow'd
it
for
me
to
have
another
made
by
it
.
The
disguis'd
Gallant
receiv'd
the
Gown
,
and
left
Rufina
,
her
eyes
all
on
fire
,
and
vext
to
the
soul
,
to
find
her self
so
impudently
affronted
.
Saravia
ask'd
her
upon
what
account
she
had
borrow'd
that
Gown
;
she
made
answer
,
That
she
had
done
it
at
the
intreaty
of
an
acquaintance
of
hers
,
who
was
desirous
to
have
such
another
,
as
being
extremely
taken
with
the
fashion
of
it
.
She
persuaded
her
husband
to
any
thing
,
who
,
poor
man
,
understood
little
of
the
world
besides
his
trading
.
In
the
mean
time
,
she
was
extremely
incens'd
against
Ruperio
for
the
slovenly
trick
he
had
put
upon
her
,
in
depriving
her
of
a
garment
she
was
much
taken
with
,
and
whereof
she
thought
her self
indisputably
possess'd
.
She
thereupon
resolv'd
to
be
reveng'd
on
him
,
what
ever
it
cost
her
;
but
thinking
to
communicate
her
design
to
her
Maid
,
who
was
privy
to
all
her
secret
designs
,
Trapassa
,
who
over-heard
them
,
came
to
know
the
whole
story
;
and
being
acquainted
with
the
Gallant
,
as
being
one
who
hanted
the
Gaming-houses
,
and
conceiving
himself
oblig'd
to
revenge
the
affront
done
his
daughter
,
he
meets
him
in
the
street
one
day
,
and
tells
him
,
he
desir'd
to
measure
the
length
of
his
Sword
,
upon
what
account
he
should
know
,
when
they
were
come
to
the
place
.
Ruperio
follow'd
him
out
of
the
City
,
and
being
out
of
Peoples
sight
,
Trapassa
told
him
what
had
occasion'd
his
giving
him
that
challenge
.
They
presently
drew
,
and
made
several
passes
,
but
at
last
Trapassa
prov'd
the
more
unfortunate
,
for
he
was
run
through
the
heart
,
so
that
he
died
immediately
,
having
not
the
time
to
make
the
least
act
of
contrition
;
a
judgement
commonly
happens
to
those
who
lead
such
Lives
as
he
had
done
.
Ruperio
took
Sanctuary
,
and
Trapassa's
Body
was
brought
to
his
Son-in-law's
,
where
it
was
receiv'd
,
with
a
mixture
of
joy
and
grief
;
joy
,
that
the
House
was
disburthen'd
of
one
of
the
most
humoursome
and
insupportable
persons
in
the
world
;
and
grief
for
the
future
charges
of
his
enterrment
.
In
the
mean
time
,
Rufina
made
it
appear
by
her
lamentations
and
tears
,
that
his
death
caus'd
her
as
much
affliction
as
it
brought
her
husband
joy
.
She
would
not
hear
of
any
consolation
,
pretending
she
had
lost
all
her
support
in
this
world
,
for
all
the
kinred
and
friends
she
had
were
now
exchang'd
for
a
husband
,
whom
she
could
not
affect
.
On
the
other
side
Saravia
thought
himself
the
happiest
man
in
the
world
,
to
have
a
wife
handsome
and
young
as
his
was
.
But
she
was
indeed
a
little
too
handsome
and
too
young
for
him
;
that
proportion
of
Age
,
which
Parents
ought
chiefly
to
mind
in
the
disposal
of
their
Children
,
was
not
observ'd
in
this
.
'T
is
not
to
be
expected
an
old
Man
can
please
a
young
Girl
.
When
a
woman
comes
once
to
slight
her
husband
,
she
is
in
the
way
to
fancy
any
body
.
But
for
Rufina
,
the
passion
she
had
withall
of
going
highly
in
cloaths
,
and
to
be
reveng'd
of
Ruperio
,
made
her
break
forth
into
all
the
excesses
,
that
exasperated
Woman-kind
can
fall
into
,
defile
the
Marriage-bed
,
and
implicitely
give
her self
over
to
all
those
things
,
whence
she
might
derive
either
satisfaction
or
advantage
.
Nothing
ran
so
much
in
her
head
as
the
injury
she
had
receiv'd
from
Ruperio
,
which
she
thought
such
,
that
she
would
not
have
Liv'd
,
but
out
of
a
hope
to
be
reveng'd
of
him
.
But
in
regard
she
must
have
other
hands
than
her
own
to
do
that
,
she
sought
out
all
opportunities
imaginable
to
assure
her self
of
a
Gallant
,
who
would
vigorously
execute
her
commands
.
One
of
those
Fridays
,
which
are
solemnized
with
a
great
concourse
of
people
from
Easter
to
Whitsuntide
,
in
Triana
part
of
the
Suburbs
of
Sevil
,
through
which
passes
the
Quadalquivir
,
the
famous
River
of
Andalusia
,
and
the
Looking-glass
of
that
wealthy
City
;
Rufina
went
into
a
Boat
cover'd
with
branches
,
to
go
and
see
that
Festival
,
to
which
she
was
carried
,
by
the
express
order
of
her
husband
,
by
a
Neighbour
of
his
,
whom
he
thought
one
of
the
most
discreet
and
virtuous
Women
in
the
world
.
But
he
was
not
the
first
Man
that
was
deceiv'd
in
a
Woman
;
for
,
on
the
contrary
,
she
was
one
of
the
wantonest
and
withall
the
simplest
of
the
whole
Sex
.
She
therefore
took
up
a
Boat
for
her self
,
Rufina
,
and
two
other
Women
of
their
acquaintance
;
but
though
she
had
given
the
Water-man
his
full
fare
;
yet
was
she
easily
perswaded
by
him
to
take
in
other
persons
into
the
Boat
,
and
among
those
,
a
young
Man
,
who
had
his
Sentinels
at
the
Water-side
to
give
him
notice
of
such
an
opportunity
.
As
soon
as
they
were
got
into
the
Boat
,
Rufina
unveil'd
,
and
the
Gallant
(
whom
we
will
call
Felician
)
had
no
sooner
seen
,
but
he
was
surpriz'd
with
her
Beauty
.
He
thought
her
so
handsome
,
that
he
persuaded
some
of
his
friends
,
who
stood
on
the
River-side
,
to
come
into
the
Boat
,
and
to
effect
that
,
greas'd
the
fist
of
the
Water-man
.
Being
all
got
in
,
Felician
took
his
place
next
to
Rufina
,
into
whose
favour
it
was
his
design
to
insinuate
himself
.
He
was
Son
to
a
person
of
Quality
,
who
had
rais'd
himself
to
a
vast
fortune
in
the
Indies
,
and
had
no
Children
but
only
this
,
who
disposing
of
his
wealth
,
as
he
pleas'd
,
it
was
conceiv'd
it
would
not
be
long
ere
he
scatter'd
abroad
what
his
Father
had
not
in
so
short
a
time
raked
together
.
For
he
was
a
constant
Gamester
,
a
perpetual
Courter
of
Ladies
,
and
he
maintain'd
a
considerable
crew
of
Hangers-on
,
who
did
him
no
other
service
than
accompany
,
and
encourage
him
in
his
debauches
.
Besides
these
noble
qualities
,
he
was
extreamly
extravagant
in
point
of
cloaths
,
a
vice
not
extraordinary
in
those
young
men
of
Sevil
,
who
have
all
things
at
their
own
disposal
,
as
he
we
speak
of
had
.
Having
,
as
was
said
,
seated
himself
next
to
Rufina
,
and
his
Camerades
next
to
her
friends
,
the
Boat
put
off
,
and
went
very
leisurely
down
the
River
,
for
which
the
Water-man
was
so
much
the
better
paid
.
Felician
thought
this
time
so
precious
that
he
lost
very
little
of
it
;
he
discover'd
his
Love
to
Rufina
in
such
obliging
expressions
,
that
she
gave
absolute
credit
to
his
words
,
and
,
by
her
attention
,
satisfy'd
him
,
that
she
was
not
displeas'd
with
his
company
.
Felician
was
a
very
ingenious
person
,
and
of
an
excellent
good
humour
,
upon
such
occasions
as
those
;
he
deliver'd
himself
with
such
a
smartness
and
grace
,
that
the
Ladies
were
extreamly
well
satisfy'd
,
especially
Rufina
,
who
thought
nothing
comparable
to
his
conversation
.
She
gave
him
her
name
,
told
him
where
she
liv'd
,
and
what
profession
her
husband
was
of
,
and
in
a
word
made
him
a
kind
of
Confession
of
her
more
secret
affairs
.
Felician
was
as
open
to
her
,
concluding
his
discourse
with
a
thousand
protestations
of
service
and
obedience
.
The
afternoon
was
spent
in
complements
and
courtship
,
and
to
the
great
satisfaction
of
Rufina
,
who
had
two
designs
to
carry
on
at
the
same
time
;
one
,
to
be
reveng'd
of
Ruperio
,
by
the
assistance
of
Felician
;
the
other
,
to
cajol
the
latter
out
of
somewhat
towards
cloaths
and
her
extravagant
expences
.
Nor
did
the
business
happen
otherwise
than
she
had
design'd
it
.
From
that
day
Felician
began
to
frequent
the
street
where
Rufina
liv'd
,
especially
when
he
had
intelligence
that
her
husband
was
abroad
about
his
affairs
.
Rufina
,
on
the
other
side
,
resolv'd
not
to
be
over-easily
conquer'd
;
for
when
she
remembred
how
she
had
been
serv'd
by
Ruperio
,
it
rais'd
in
her
a
certain
fear
of
receiving
the
like
affront
from
another
.
Before
she
admitted
his
entrance
into
the
House
,
she
thought
fit
to
make
trial
of
his
liberality
.
Of
this
she
was
in
a
short
time
pretty
well
satisfy'd
,
for
Felician
had
been
a
prodigal
all
his
Life
,
but
upon
this
occasion
exceeded
all
he
had
done
before
,
sending
her
presents
of
cloaths
,
jewels
,
and
other
things
,
besides
the
expences
he
was
at
in
treatments
and
collations
:
So
that
Rúfina
was
the
most
satisfy'd
Woman
in
the
world
.
'T
is
commonly
said
,
that
the
higher
a
Man's
enjoyments
are
,
the
sooner
he
is
cloy'd
,
but
it
happen'd
otherwise
with
Felician
,
for
his
affection
to
Rufina
encreas'd
daily
,
and
came
up
to
that
height
it
could
not
well
be
greater
.
It
happen'd
about
this
time
,
that
Ruperio
got
at
one
time
above
six
hundred
Crowns
at
play
.
He
went
always
very
high
in
cloaths
;
but
this
unexpected
good
fortune
made
him
somewhat
exceed
his
former
gawdiness
.
But
with
that
good
,
he
had
this
ill
fortune
,
to
find
out
,
that
Felician
was
seen
very
often
in
the
street
where
Rufina
liv'd
,
and
to
infer
thence
,
that
he
made
some
addresses
to
her
.
This
jealousie
awoke
the
love
he
had
sometimes
had
for
her
;
it
troubled
him
that
he
should
have
any
Rival
,
and
thereupon
he
resolv'd
to
retrive
himself
into
her
favour
,
and
repair
the
injury
,
he
was
now
sensible
,
that
he
had
done
her
.
Upon
this
account
,
he
pass'd
several
times
through
her
street
,
which
caus'd
not
a
little
perplexity
to
Felician
.
Rufina
was
enrag'd
to
see
that
the
Impostor
had
the
impudence
to
make
any
pretence
to
her
favour
,
after
the
notorious
affront
she
had
receiv'd
at
his
hands
.
She
consider'd
there
was
no
way
to
be
rid
of
his
importunities
,
but
to
engage
her
beloved
Gallant
Felician
in
her
quarrel
,
by
persuading
him
,
that
Ruperio's
design
was
to
displace
him
out
of
her
affection
,
which
if
he
valued
,
he
would
find
some
means
to
check
the
insolence
of
his
Rival
,
and
deliver
her
from
his
odious
Courtship
.
See
what
employments
Women
do
many
times
put
on
their
Gallants
!
setting
them
on
,
like
Cocks
,
to
fight
,
till
they
have
destroy'd
one
the
other
.
Rufina
thought
it
not
prudence
to
acquaint
Felician
with
what
had
pass'd
between
her
and
Ruperio
.
No
,
she
took
a
safer
course
:
She
told
him
,
that
Ruperio
was
continually
importuning
her
with
very
advantageous
proffers
,
which
yet
,
for
his
sake
,
she
slighted
.
Felician
believ'd
her
,
and
that
the
rather
,
in
regard
he
met
him
every
day
,
and
many
times
in
the
night
,
walking
the
rounds
about
his
Mistress's
house
.
To
incense
him
the
more
,
she
added
,
that
were
it
not
for
that
troublesome
person
,
she
would
see
him
oftner
than
she
did
.
There
needed
no
more
;
Felician
being
thus
enflam'd
into
jealousie
,
met
with
Ruperio
one
night
in
his
Mistress's
street
,
when
he
knew
Rufina
was
a-bed
,
and
her
husband
looking
over
some
Accounts
,
which
concern'd
his
Agency
.
As
soon
as
Felician
had
perceiv'd
Ruperio
,
he
call'd
him
by
his
name
,
and
having
talk'd
a
little
while
together
,
to
avoid
the
discovery
of
any
quarrel
in
the
Streets
,
he
conducted
to
a
little
by-place
,
which
happen'd
to
be
over
against
the
room
where
Saravia
kept
all
his
papers
,
and
where
he
then
was
,
very
busie
looking
over
them
.
The
two
Rivals
being
come
to
the
place
,
Felician
address'd
himself
thus
to
the
other
.
Signor
Ruperio
,
I
have
for
some
days
past
observ'd
,
that
you
have
frequented
this
street
more
than
you
should
have
done
,
and
I
was
somewhat
at
a
loss
to
know
,
what
might
occasion
your
coming
hither
,
in
regard
there
are
several
Ladies
of
worth
,
which
might
oblige
you
thereto
.
But
I
have
at
last
discover'd
,
that
Madam
Rufina
is
the
cause
of
your
diurnal
and
nocturnal
haunts
hereabouts
;
and
this
I
am
assur'd
of
,
not
only
by
what
I
have
seen
my self
,
but
also
by
the
relation
of
her
servants
,
to
whom
you
speak
,
and
whom
you
would
corrupt
by
presents
to
introduce
you
into
their
Mistress's
favour
.
I
have
been
her
Servant
a
good
while
,
and
the
services
I
have
done
her
have
gain'd
me
her
affection
,
so
far
that
I
have
receiv'd
the
greatest
favours
from
her
that
I
could
expect
.
I
am
not
a
person
much
given
to
boast
of
my
good
fortunes
;
but
to
prevent
your
further
progress
in
this
affair
,
I
am
forc'd
to
make
you
this
particular
discovery
,
which
I
doubt
not
but
you
will
entertain
as
a
great
secret
,
as
every
person
of
honour
ought
to
do
.
I
have
acquainted
you
with
my
love
,
and
the
advantages
I
have
made
of
it
,
to
oblige
you
to
forbear
all
applications
to
this
Lady
for
the
future
.
Which
if
you
do
,
you
will
exempt
your self
from
many
inconveniences
,
and
ease
me
of
those
resentments
,
which
I
am
now
full
of
.
Ruperio
hearkned
very
attentively
to
the
discourse
of
Felician
,
and
Rufina's
husband
no
less
,
hearing
things
that
concern'd
him
so
nearly
.
And
yet
though
the
story
he
had
heard
was
extreamly
prejudicial
to
him
,
and
could
not
but
add
very
much
to
his
disquiet
,
yet
must
he
needs
stay
to
take
Ruperio's
Answer
;
which
was
to
this
effect
.
Signor
Felician
,
I
cannot
wonder
at
all
,
that
you
should
be
so
careful
to
observe
,
with
what
devotion
I
courted
Madam
Rufina
,
since
you
were
so
much
concern'd
in
it
as
you
tell
me
;
and
I
believe
you
will
be
as
little
surpriz'd
at
my
being
engag'd
in
the
same
design
,
being
,
as
I
find
you
,
ignorant
what
are
the
grounds
of
my
Love
,
and
the
reasons
I
have
to
prosecute
it
.
I
am
as
backward
as
your self
to
proclaim
the
favours
I
receive
from
Ladies
;
but
since
you
express
your self
so
freely
to
me
,
I
conceive
my self
oblig'd
to
do
the
like
to
you
,
that
you
may
think
my
procedure
the
less
strange
.
I
was
in
this
Lady's
favour
before
you
were
,
and
I
obtain'd
of
her
the
same
thing
you
boast
so
much
of
:
by
some
misfortune
or
other
,
I
have
lost
it
,
yet
not
so
,
as
but
that
I
hope
,
in
time
,
I
re-instate
my self
into
it
again
,
which
to
do
,
assure
your self
I
shall
do
whatever
lies
in
my
power
.
If
I
prevail
,
and
that
she
will
admit
the
continuance
of
my
services
,
as
I
hope
she
may
,
your
onely
remedy
is
patience
;
for
I
am
so
far
from
quitting
this
pretension
,
that
I
shall
do
my
utmost
to
prevent
her
giving
any
entertainment
to
yours
,
and
bring
her
to
such
a
pass
,
as
not
so
much
as
remember
,
that
you
ever
thought
of
her
.
With
that
they
both
drew
,
Felician
maintaining
,
that
he
onely
ought
to
pretend
to
her
,
and
Ruperio
standing
upon
the
same
tearms
.
The
dispute
was
soon
ended
,
his
Sword
,
who
was
in
present
possession
prov'd
the
more
fortunate
,
Ruperio
,
by
a
thrust
through
the
heart
,
falling
upon
the
place
.
The
noise
of
the
Swords
was
not
very
great
,
for
Felician
had
done
his
work
so
suddenly
,
that
none
heard
any
thing
of
the
quarrel
,
but
onely
Saravia
,
who
,
for
his
own
reputation
,
would
have
kept
it
secret
.
That
the
Body
might
not
lye
in
that
place
,
Felician
took
it
on
his
Shoulders
,
and
laid
it
before
a
Monastery
,
and
went
for
refuge
into
another
,
till
he
found
what
would
be
done
in
the
business
.
Saravia
,
astonish'd
at
what
he
had
seen
and
heard
,
began
to
be
enrag'd
against
his
wife
,
contriving
how
to
be
reveng'd
of
a
Woman
,
whose
perfidiousness
was
the
more
notorious
,
the
greater
reasons
she
had
to
be
gratesul
and
loyal
.
She
was
fast
asleep
in
her
bed
,
never
dreaming
what
had
hapned
in
the
streets
upon
her
account
.
The
first
thing
came
into
Saravia's
imagination
,
was
altogether
for
revenge
,
to
effect
which
his
course
would
be
,
to
go
up
streight
into
her
chamber
,
and
to
dispatch
her
,
in
bed
,
with
a
dagger
.
But
he
consider'd
with
himself
,
that
the
Murtherer
having
carried
away
the
dead
body
from
his
door
,
he
might
be
charg'd
with
killing
her
without
any
cause
,
and
that
he
would
want
proof
,
as
having
for
witness
but
two
servant-maids
,
who
were
more
likely
to
depose
against
him
.
He
therefore
resolv'd
,
as
the
surest
way
to
dispatch
her
,
to
give
her
a
secret
dose
of
poison
,
such
as
might
remove
her
after
a
certain
time
:
but
he
thought
withal
,
that
he
should
not
satisfie
his
own
just
resentment
,
if
he
any
longer
delay'd
a
vengeance
which
requir'd
immediate
execution
.
He
propos'd
to
himself
another
expedient
,
which
was
,
to
leave
both
City
and
Wife
,
and
to
go
to
some
other
place
:
but
that
design
was
soon
over
with
him
,
he
having
many
affairs
undetermin'd
,
and
fearing
the
sinister
judgments
might
have
been
pass'd
upon
such
a
resolution
,
to
the
shame
and
confusion
of
a
man
of
his
age
and
reputation
.
This
reflection
brought
him
to
his
first
design
of
sending
her
going
with
the
ponyard
.
But
before
he
executed
that
cruelty
(
which
yet
rightly
taken
was
not
any
,
but
a
just
punishment
for
her
offence
)
he
thought
it
requisite
,
for
his
own
vindication
,
to
leave
,
in
writing
,
the
reasons
,
which
had
induc'd
him
to
commit
that
murther
.
He
took
pen
and
ink
,
and
began
to
set
down
the
affront
he
had
receiv'd
from
his
wife
,
and
the
revenge
he
had
taken
:
but
upon
second
thoughts
,
and
imagining
he
had
not
sufficiently
express'd
the
heinousness
of
her
crime
,
he
tore
what
he
had
written
;
and
this
he
did
to
the
third
time
,
so
great
were
the
confusion
and
disturbance
of
his
thoughts
.
He
set
himself
down
to
write
the
fourth
time
;
but
remembring
that
he
was
to
begin
his
revenge
with
adulteries
,
and
could
not
do
it
because
he
knew
not
the
several
appellations
thereof
,
he
was
at
last
satisfi'd
,
that
he
should
be
sufficiently
reveng'd
if
he
had
but
once
dispatch'd
his
wife
.
A
good
part
of
the
night
slipp'd
away
in
these
disquiets
,
viz.
in
writing
,
correcting
,
blotting
out
again
,
and
tearing
all
he
had
written
.
At
last
,
being
absolutely
resolv'd
in
that
rage
to
execute
his
design
,
he
made
another
writing
,
without
any
blot
,
having
before-hand
well
consider'd
what
he
should
set
down
;
and
when
he
had
express'd
,
the
best
he
could
,
the
injury
he
had
receiv'd
,
he
was
o're-come
by
so
pressing
a
grief
that
he
fell
down
and
dy'd
suddenly
.
All
this
past
,
while
Rufina
flept
.
Awaking
of
a
sudden
and
not
finding
her
husband
in
bed
with
her
,
she
call'd
him
,
and
seeing
he
made
no
Answer
,
she
put
on
her
petticoat
,
and
went
into
his
closet
,
where
she
found
a
candle
lighted
,
and
Saravia
lying
on
the
floor
,
dead
.
She
was
astonish'd
,
as
well
she
might
;
all
she
could
do
was
to
call
up
her
Maids
,
who
immediately
came
to
the
sight
of
this
strange
spectacle
.
They
were
no
less
surpriz'd
than
their
Mistress
at
the
strangeness
of
the
accident
.
As
they
were
going
to
convey
the
Corps
to
one
of
the
best
rooms
in
the
house
(
before
the
neighbours
had
any
notice
of
the
adventure
)
Rufina
met
with
a
paper
,
which
seem'd
to
be
not
quite
finish'd
,
wherein
she
found
these
words
.
That
my
justification
may
be
the
better
known
to
all
those
who
shall
read
this
paper
,
I
declare
,
that
all
my
unhappiness
proceeds
from
the
lightness
and
inconstancy
of
my
infamous
wife
,
who
,
profaning
the
holy
Sacrament
of
Marriage
,
by
the
sacred
Tie
whereof
we
were
join'd
together
in
the
face
of
the
Church
,
without
any
consideration
of
the
great
affection
I
bore
her
,
hath
prostituted
her self
to
two
Gallants
at
the
same
time
,
whe
having
quarrel'd
for
the
precedence
,
which
either
of
them
pretended
to
over
his
adversary
,
the
more
unfortunate
of
the
two
was
kill'd
by
the
other
,
before
the
window
of
my
house
.
Having
thus
been
witness
os
my
own
disgrace
,
and
heard
the
whole
story
of
my
dishonour
,
it
was
but
just
I
should
revenge
my
infamy
,
thus
—
Then
ended
the
writing
,
for
death
surprising
him
at
that
word
he
immediately
expir'd
.
Rufina
was
extremely
distracted
at
both
what
she
saw
and
what
she
had
read
,
so
that
,
for
half
an
hour
,
she
knew
not
in
a
manner
where
she
was
,
considering
with
her self
,
that
the
greatest
secrets
in
the
world
will
be
discover'd
at
last
,
and
that
it
is
Heaven's
pleasure
they
should
be
so
,
either
for
our
reformation
or
our
punishment
.
The
death
of
her
husband
rais'd
in
her
a
certain
mixture
of
fear
and
affliction
:
a
fear
,
to
see
how
sudden
it
had
been
,
occasion'd
by
the
resentment
of
an
injury
which
she
had
done
him
;
the
affliction
,
to
see
her
husband
deprived
of
life
,
and
her self
ignorant
how
to
disguise
so
unhappy
an
accident
.
A
little
remorse
of
conscience
,
like
a
qualm
over
her
stomach
,
troubled
her
,
that
she
had
been
so
perfidious
to
a
man
,
who
had
lov'd
her
so
well
,
and
,
by
marrying
her
,
had
rais'd
her
from
beggery
to
plenty
.
The
great
affection
which
the
Neighbours
knew
that
he
had
always
born
her
,
gave
her
a
little
confidence
,
and
induc'd
her
to
take
the
advice
of
one
of
her
Maids
,
which
was
to
carry
her
husband's
body
into
his
bed
,
and
to
cry
out
the
next
morning
so
loud
,
that
the
Neighbours
might
here
it
,
whom
she
might
,
by
her
excessive
lamentations
,
persuade
,
that
she
had
found
him
dead
by
her
side
when
she
awoke
;
and
that
her
two
Maids
,
to
carry
on
the
cheat
,
should
give
out
that
their
Master
had
taken
a
surfeit
,
and
died
suddenly
of
it
.
Having
thus
laid
their
design
,
day
came
,
Rufina
cried
out
,
and
lamented
with
all
her
might
,
and
the
next
Neighbours
came
in
,
who
found
her
half-dress'd
,
weeping
,
and
tearing
her
hair
through
madness
,
that
she
had
lost
so
good
a
husband
.
Her
two
Maids
acted
their
parts
very
well
,
by
relating
the
cause
of
their
good
Master's
death
,
and
saying
,
that
they
advis'd
him
not
to
eat
so
much
,
or
that
otherwise
he
must
expect
to
repent
it
.
All
were
satisfi'd
with
these
reasons
,
and
some
of
Rufina's
friends
were
busie
about
her
,
out
of
a
fear
she
should
have
swounded
,
so
well
did
she
personate
the
afflicted
Lady
.
They
did
all
lay
in
their
power
to
comfort
her
,
who
,
amidst
all
her
grief
,
had
not
forgotten
to
burn
the
paper
she
had
found
,
lest
it
might
have
prov'd
a
testimony
of
her
miscarriages
.
Some
Officers
from
the
Magistrate
,
who
are
never
wanting
upon
such
occasions
,
came
in
soon
after
,
and
upon
the
allegations
of
the
Neighbours
,
that
the
deceas'd
had
ever
liv'd
very
lovingly
with
his
wife
,
went
their
ways
,
satisfi'd
that
she
had
not
any
way
contributed
to
his
death
.
Saravia
was
buried
,
and
Rufina
was
so
put
to
it
to
act
the
part
she
was
then
engag'd
in
,
that
she
thought
not
of
doing
what
Widows
commonly
do
upon
such
occasions
,
that
is
,
to
make
the
best
provision
they
can
for
themselves
,
out
of
what
their
husbands
have
left
.
So
that
one
of
his
Nephews
,
as
soon
as
the
Uncle
was
buried
,
seiz'd
on
all
in
the
house
,
and
Rufina
was
forc'd
to
go
to
Law
with
him
,
to
recover
what
she
might
lawfully
lay
claim
to
.
Let
us
return
to
see
what
became
of
Ruperio's
body
.
Being
found
in
the
morning
by
the
religious
Inhabitants
of
the
Monastery
,
and
not
known
by
any
of
them
,
they
were
going
,
without
sans
ceremonie
,
to
burie
it
,
had
they
not
been
prevented
by
a
Citizen
,
who
advis'd
them
to
expose
it
in
some
publick
place
,
that
it
might
be
known
,
and
that
if
he
were
one
that
had
father
or
mother
,
or
friends
in
the
City
,
that
they
might
know
the
misfortune
happen'd
to
him
;
that
by
that
means
,
they
would
secure
to
themselves
the
charges
of
his
interment
,
as
also
the
fees
due
for
other
prayers
and
devotions
,
in
order
to
the
repose
of
his
soul
.
This
advice
pleas'd
the
Superiour
of
the
Monastery
,
who
immediately
sent
word
to
the
Magistrate
,
that
they
had
found
in
the
morning
a
young
man
dead
at
their
Chutchdoor
.
The
body
was
dispos'd
into
a
little
place
near
the
Monastery
,
with
two
lighted
wax-candles
,
by
which
place
there
pass'd
by
not
long
after
a
man
that
knew
him
.
He
told
them
who
he
was
,
and
then
went
and
carried
that
sad
news
to
his
Friends
,
who
were
extremely
troubled
at
his
death
,
his
Father
having
often
foretold
him
,
that
he
would
come
to
such
an
end
;
for
,
from
the
life
he
led
,
there
could
not
any
thing
else
be
inferr'd
.
He
was
buried
in
the
Monastery
,
and
a
strict
search
was
made
for
him
who
had
committed
the
murther
:
but
Sevil
being
a
vast
and
populous
City
,
no
discovery
could
be
made
of
him
.
Onely
Rufina
knew
who
it
was
,
by
the
absence
of
her
Gallant
,
Ruperio's
death
,
and
the
paper
she
found
in
her
husband's
closet
.
She
was
infinitely
satisfi'd
to
see
her self
reveng'd
of
a
person
,
who
had
done
her
such
an
affront
;
and
it
was
a
great
happiness
to
her
,
that
no
notice
had
been
taken
of
the
bloud
,
which
the
deceas'd
had
spilt
at
the
place
where
he
was
kill'd
.
Had
the
Magistrate
known
of
that
,
it
would
have
brought
her
into
some
trouble
,
for
the
Neighbours
would
have
testifi'd
,
that
they
had
often
seen
those
two
Rivals
in
that
little
street
.
By
this
means
Rufina
is
become
a
Widow
,
but
withall
poor
and
destitute
of
all
accommodations
,
having
onely
the
stock
of
her
beauty
to
set
her self
up
again
;
and
that
,
together
with
her
honour
(
if
it
may
be
said
she
had
any
left
)
she
resolv'd
to
prostitute
,
that
she
might
live
in
some
measure
sutably
to
what
she
had
done
before
.
Saravia's
Nephew
,
who
had
taken
possession
of
all
his
estate
,
was
sentenc
▪
d
to
pay
Rufina
somewhat
upon
the
account
of
dower
;
but
it
was
so
inconsiderable
,
in
respect
of
the
expence
she
was
wont
to
be
at
,
that
she
was
forc'd
to
leave
the
house
she
was
in
and
take
one
of
a
lower
rent
.
Nor
had
this
Nephew
what
he
expected
by
being
heir
to
his
Uncle
,
for
the
estate
was
extremely
perplex'd
,
so
that
having
even'd
▪
accounts
with
the
Creditors
,
he
had
but
little
left
for
himself
.
Rufina
,
having
remov'd
into
another
Quarter
of
the
City
,
and
being
young
,
sumptuous
in
cloaths
,
and
perfectly
handsome
,
did
not
as
many
other
Widows
are
wont
to
do
,
who
,
as
soon
as
their
husbands
are
march'd
off
,
dress
themselves
as
fine
as
hands
can
make
them
,
and
deriving
a
little
advantage
from
their
mourning
seek
out
opportunities
to
shew
themselves
to
the
Gallants
purely
out
of
a
design
to
get
other
husbands
.
But
ours
,
though
young
,
had
had
so
great
experience
,
that
she
resolv'd
to
play
another
game
,
and
that
no
small
one
.
There
was
come
in
the
Fleet
from
Peru
a
man
born
amidst
the
Mountains
of
Leon
,
who
had
begun
his
fortune
by
the
relation
of
a
Servant
to
a
Merchant
of
Sevil
,
and
one
who
,
upon
his
Master's
cost
,
and
some
little
trading
into
the
Indies
,
was
grown
rich
,
insomuch
that
within
few
years
,
he
was
accounted
one
of
the
ablest
Merchants
that
traded
to
Peru.
He
makes
another
voiage
thither
,
being
advanc'd
to
a
certain
publick
employment
,
and
having
thereby
added
much
to
his
wealth
,
he
was
return'd
again
to
Sevil
,
in
that
years
Fleet
,
where
he
sold
the
commodities
he
had
brought
over
at
double
what
they
had
cost
him
;
so
fortunate
was
he
in
all
his
ventures
.
Marquina
(
so
was
this
lucky
Merchant
call'd
)
was
a
person
of
about
fifty
years
of
age
;
the
most
covetous
and
wretched'st
natur'd
fellow
that
ever
was
.
He
grudg'd
himself
what
he
eat
and
drunk
,
though
even
below
moderation
;
nay
he
many
times
fasted
purposely
to
spare
so
much
.
He
had
no
more
servants
than
he
needed
;
his
whole
Train
consisted
in
a
Factor
,
a
Lacquey
,
a
Moor-slave
,
who
look'd
to
his
Mule
,
and
a
Maid
to
dress
his
pitiful
Commons
.
He
kept
his
Family
so
short
in
point
of
victuals
,
that
it
was
wondred
any
one
would
serve
him
;
his
Miserdisposition
found
the
whole
City
discourse
;
another
would
have
been
asham'd
of
it
,
but
he
onely
laugh'd
at
it
,
applauding
himself
,
and
making
it
his
whole
business
to
heap
up
wealth
,
whereof
he
had
abundance
.
Rufina
hearing
this
account
of
him
,
began
to
consider
all
the
circumstances
,
and
after
she
had
a
little
reflected
thereon
,
she
concluded
,
that
he
might
be
made
an
excellent
Cully
,
whom
if
she
could
smite
,
as
she
expected
,
her
condition
would
be
better
than
ever
it
had
been
.
Marquina
liv'd
without
the
City
,
in
a
little
Tenement
he
had
purchas'd
of
one
who
ought
him
some
mony
,
which
he
knew
not
well
how
to
get
in
otherwise
;
for
he
was
naturally
so
perfect
a
slave
to
his
profit
,
that
he
little
minded
his
pleasures
.
So
that
he
got
that
Tenement
,
with
a
neat
house
on
it
,
very
cheap
,
and
in
satisfaction
for
his
debt
;
it
stood
near
S.
Bernard's
Monastery
,
in
the
midst
of
a
pleasant
valley
.
He
liv'd
here
to
spare
the
rent
of
a
house
in
the
City
;
he
had
so
fortifi'd
it
,
that
no
thieves
,
either
by
day
or
night
,
could
make
any
breach
into
it
;
all
the
doors
were
of
extraordinary
thickness
,
the
windows
had
bars
and
grates
,
the
walls
very
high
and
very
strong
.
He
had
secur'd
the
place
within
with
many
fire-Arms
,
which
he
always
kept
charged
,
Halbards
,
and
Partisans
,
which
were
dispos'd
near
the
gate
.
He
was
forc'd
to
take
one
person
more
into
his
retinue
,
to
wit
,
a
fellow
to
order
his
Garden
,
and
to
make
the
best
advantage
he
could
of
it
,
a
married
man
,
who
should
carry
the
fruits
and
other
things
to
the
market
to
make
the
best
of
them
,
so
vigilant
was
his
Avarice
.
His
treasure
was
dispos'd
into
a
secret
place
behind
his
bed
where
he
lay
himself
,
in
strong
iron
chests
;
and
every
night
before
he
went
to
bed
,
he
,
like
an
over-doing
Constable
,
search'd
all
the
rooms
in
the
house
.
Thus
did
this
wrerched
fellow
live
,
though
he
had
no
children
to
succeed
him
,
for
he
had
never
been
married
,
nor
intended
to
be
,
though
very
advantageous
Matches
were
daily
proffer'd
him
.
Rufina
had
laid
her
design
to
bring
in
this
covetous
Merchant
into
the
noose
,
and
to
effect
it
,
she
communicated
it
to
a
person
who
was
excellent
at
such
things
,
and
an
ancient
acquaintance
of
her
Father's
Signor
Trapassa
.
This
man
had
plaid
some
pranks
at
Madrid
,
which
had
occasion'd
his
removal
thence
to
Cadiz
,
and
his
atchievments
there
,
his
departure
thence
to
Sevil
,
where
he
went
lurking
up
and
down
,
and
spending
some
mony
,
which
it
had
cost
him
more
hazard
than
pains
to
get
.
He
was
one
of
the
most
accomplish'd
men
in
point
of
Thievery
of
his
time
,
but
very
fearful
of
falling
into
the
hands
of
Justice
,
lest
there
might
rise
up
in
judgment
against
him
some
of
his
former
offences
;
which
were
such
as
had
preferr'd
him
to
the
Galleys
,
where
he
had
made
acquaintance
with
Trapassa
,
and
had
continu'd
it
at
Sevil.
This
person
(
whose
name
was
Garay
)
,
Rufina
took
to
assist
her
in
the
compassing
of
her
design
.
Having
given
him
instructions
what
he
was
to
do
,
and
told
him
,
that
Marquina
return'd
not
to
his
house
,
till
about
Sun-set
,
as
he
was
wont
to
do
,
they
both
pass'd
by
Marquina's
garden
,
he
on
a
Mule
,
and
she
on
a
good
Horse
.
She
had
put
off
her
Mourning
,
and
put
on
another
dress
,
with
a
hat
and
feather
,
as
the
Sevil-Ladies
are
wont
to
go
,
when
they
are
in
the
Country
.
They
pass'd
by
the
Garden
,
just
as
the
Gardener
was
opening
the
door
.
Garay
coming
up
to
him
,
Friend
,
said
he
,
here
is
a
Lady
would
not
willingly
go
into
the
City
to
day
,
if
you
will
afford
her
entertainment
this
night
.
I
will
satisfie
you
to
your
own
desires
;
besides
that
you
will
do
us
an
ex●raordinary
kindness
,
for
you
will
thereby
prevent
a
great
misfortune
which
she
cannot
otherwise
avoid
.
The
Gardener
,
who
was
afraid
of
his
Maste●s
displeasure
,
told
him
that
he
durst
not
be
so
bold
,
as
to
receive
any
person
into
his
house
,
without
his
knowledge
,
though
he
had
not
expresly
forbidden
him
the
doing
of
any
such
thing
.
But
Garay
,
who
knew
the
vertue
and
power
of
mony
,
took
a
considerable
sum
out
of
his
pocket
,
and
giving
it
to
the
Gardener
,
Here
,
friend
,
said
he
,
take
this
in
earnest
of
more
.
The
Gardener's
wife
longing
to
know
what
business
they
might
have
with
her
husband
,
comes
up
to
them
,
and
seeing
the
proffers
were
made
him
,
undertook
to
lodge
the
Gentlewoman
in
her
own
room
,
making
it
appear
to
her
husband
,
that
their
Master
should
never
come
to
the
knowledge
of
it
,
in
regard
their
houses
were
at
a
good
distance
one
from
the
other
,
and
that
they
should
not
be
so
unhappy
,
as
that
he
would
that
night
search
the
whole
house
,
as
many
times
a
toy
took
him
in
the
head
to
do
.
In
fine
the
wife's
arguments
prevail'd
,
so
that
the
Gardener
was
content
the
Gentlewoman
should
lodge
secretly
that
night
at
his
house
,
upon
the
receipt
of
six
Ryals
which
Garay
gave
him
as
an
earnest
of
a
greater
summe
promis'd
him
.
He
thereupon
took
down
Rufina
off
the
horse
,
and
brought
her
into
the
Garden
,
where
she
took
leave
of
Garay
,
who
had
already
receiv'd
the
orders
whereof
we
shall
give
an
account
hereafter
.
Being
come
into
the
Gardener's
room
,
she
took
off
what
cover'd
her
face
,
and
astonish'd
the
Gardener
and
his
wife
at
the
sight
of
her
beauty
,
though
she
seem'd
to
be
very
melancholy
,
as
if
some
great
misfortune
had
happened
to
her
,
to
wit
,
that
which
she
had
ready
to
relate
to
Marquina
,
in
case
she
might
come
to
speech
with
him
.
The
Sun
was
hardly
set
,
but
he
came
into
the
Garden
:
the
Negro
entring
a
little
before
to
have
the
door
opened
,
which
he
himself
lock'd
on
the
inside
,
and
carried
the
key
along
with
him
.
He
chanc'd
to
be
that
night
a
little
more
weary
than
he
us'd
,
which
occasion'd
his
going
to
bed
very
betimes
,
after
he
had
eaten
a
piece
of
bread
,
and
some
of
his
own
Garden
fruits
,
and
wash'd
them
down
with
a
glass
of
spring-water
.
He
onely
visited
that
part
of
the
house
where
he
lodg'd
himself
,
and
came
not
down
to
the
Gardener's
,
which
escap'd
not
his
privy
search
,
when
he
thought
of
it
.
His
family
,
who
kept
more
fasting-days
in
the
year
,
than
the
Church
her self
had
appointed
,
supp'd
that
night
,
in
imitation
of
the
Master
,
very
soberly
.
Marquina
gets
up
the
next
morning
betimes
,
and
gives
the
Slave
mony
to
go
to
the
market
,
while
he
went
about
his
affairs
in
the
City
,
with
order
to
have
dinner
ready
against
his
return
.
Rufina
was
at
a
loss
how
to
compass
her
design
,
finding
things
fell
not
out
according
to
her
expectation
:
but
still
waiting
the
opportunity
,
she
told
her
entertainers
that
she
was
extremely
troubled
at
her
Uncle's
stay
(
so
she
called
Garay
)
and
that
all
her
sadness
proceeded
thence
.
The
Gardener's
wife
,
who
was
a
good
hearty
woman
,
found
her
all
the
diversion
she
could
.
Marquina
comes
home
at
noon
,
with
an
intention
to
dine
in
his
garden
,
and
before
he
sate
down
,
he
would
needs
take
a
turn
about
it
,
to
see
if
any
thing
were
wanting
;
and
he
observ'd
that
there
wanted
some
pieces
of
wood
for
the
more
convenient
watering
of
the
several
Knots
.
As
he
was
going
to
the
Gardeners
to
see
if
he
had
any
fit
for
that
purpose
,
the
wife
perceiving
him
coming
,
very
hastily
shuffled
Rufina
into
a
little
back-room
,
where
she
was
wont
to
lie
:
but
in
regard
it
could
not
be
done
so
suddenly
,
but
that
Marquina
coming
in
might
hear
the
ruffling
of
the
silks
,
and
see
Rufina's
shadow
,
he
steps
into
the
room
where
she
was
retir'd
,
and
having
found
her
,
he
led
her
out
by
the
hand
,
and
bringing
her
into
the
light
,
he
found
her
so
beautiful
,
that
he
was
astonish'd
thereat
.
The
Gardeners
wife
wonder'd
,
that
her
Master
,
instead
of
chiding
her
,
as
she
expected
,
onely
ask'd
her
who
the
Lady
was
.
She
answer'd
,
that
,
the
night
before
,
passing
by
their
door
with
an
ancient
Gentleman
,
who
seem'd
as
sad
as
her self
,
they
had
very
earnestly
intreated
she
might
be
lodg'd
there
but
that
night
,
to
avoid
a
great
misfortune
,
which
would
have
hapned
to
them
,
if
they
had
gone
any
further
.
While
the
Gardener's
wife
was
giving
Marquina
this
account
,
he
very
attentively
consider'd
the
strange
Lady
,
who
seem'd
to
be
extremely
troubled
in
mind
,
which
added
to
the
attractions
of
her
Beauty
.
Marquina
was
so
taken
therewith
,
that
discarding
his
unsociable
and
covetous
humour
,
he
told
the
Gardener's
wife
,
that
she
had
done
very
well
,
in
entertaining
that
Lady
,
though
contrary
to
his
orders
,
which
in
such
a
case
were
not
to
be
observ'd
,
where
compassion
and
charity
plead
for
the
relief
of
those
that
are
in
trouble
.
This
Lady
,
said
he
,
deserves
a
better
reception
than
she
hath
found
in
your
poor
lodgings
,
I
heartily
proffer
her
my
house
,
if
she
will
but
honour
it
with
her
presence
.
Rufina
thank'd
him
very
civilly
for
his
obliging
proffers
,
and
intreated
him
to
allow
her
the
privacy
of
some
other
lodging
,
for
the
little
time
she
had
to
stay
there
,
in
regard
she
expected
an
Uncle
of
hers
to
come
and
fetch
her
away
that
night
.
Marquina
,
who
began
to
be
enflam'd
,
was
sorry
to
hear
that
her
stay
at
his
house
would
be
so
short
,
but
after
a
little
pause
,
he
told
her
,
that
though
it
were
but
for
an
hour
,
she
would
infinitely
oblige
him
,
in
the
acceptation
of
the
proffer
he
made
her
with
so
much
affection
.
She
,
who
expected
that
cue
all
the
while
,
told
him
,
that
,
to
make
some
return
to
so
great
civilities
,
she
was
ready
to
wait
on
him
.
With
that
she
went
to
Marquina's
apartment
,
whither
he
led
her
by
the
hand
,
to
the
great
satisfaction
of
the
Gardener's
wife
,
who
extremely
wondred
to
see
her
Master
,
contrary
to
his
custom
,
of
a
civil
and
obliging
humour
.
As
she
pass'd
through
the
rooms
,
she
took
particular
notice
of
all
things
;
for
though
Marquina
were
naturally
a
very
covetous
person
,
yet
,
as
to
the
furniture
of
his
house
,
he
was
otherwise
.
He
had
very
rich
Tapestry
,
Chairs
sutable
thereto
,
and
Cabinets
of
Ivory
and
Ebony
,
nay
indeed
many
things
brought
out
of
the
Indics
,
which
though
they
cost
him
not
much
there
,
are
here
of
very
great
price
.
He
immediately
commanded
his
Slave
to
prepare
an
excellent
dinner
,
an
employment
he
undertook
with
great
alacrity
,
as
knowing
he
might
make
some
advantage
of
that
extraordinary
liberality
of
his
Master
.
Rufina
din'd
with
him
,
who
treated
her
still
with
the
best
the
Table
afforded
,
with
importunate
excuses
that
there
were
no
better
for
her
.
As
soon
as
they
had
din'd
,
he
conducted
her
into
a
chamber
,
set
forth
with
a
great
number
of
excellent
pictures
,
where
there
was
also
a
sumptuous
bed
,
of
China-work
,
and
intreated
her
to
repose
her self
on
it
,
a
custom
the
Spaniards
have
in
Summer
,
as
soon
as
they
have
din'd
,
by
reason
of
the
sultriness
of
the
Country
.
He
intreated
also
to
give
her
disquiet
some
remission
,
out
of
an
assurance
,
that
she
should
be
as
safe
in
his
house
as
in
any
Sanctuary
,
and
that
she
should
not
want
any
thing
lay
in
his
power
.
She
again
return'd
him
her
most
affectionate
thanks
,
and
complying
with
his
desires
,
she
staid
alone
in
the
room
,
which
was
the
same
where
Marquina
took
his
repose
every
day
.
He
went
into
another
,
where
he
laid
himself
down
,
much
troubled
and
disquieted
,
as
being
fallen
deeply
in
love
with
his
fair
Guest
,
and
not
knowing
by
what
means
he
might
induce
her
to
favour
him
in
what
he
desir'd
of
her
,
which
if
he
could
effect
,
he
concluded
himself
the
happiest
man
in
the
world
.
Before
he
acquainted
her
with
his
design
,
he
was
desirous
to
know
the
cause
of
her
grief
,
and
what
might
occasion
her
stopping
at
his
Garden
,
and
thereby
find
whether
there
were
any
obstruction
that
might
oppose
his
desires
to
serve
her
.
To
be
satisfi'd
in
this
,
it
was
requisite
he
staid
till
she
aw●ke
;
but
she
slept
not
at
all
,
for
she
spent
the
time
in
considering
,
what
Answer
she
should
make
him
,
when
he
came
to
question
her
.
Marquina
thinking
it
now
time
to
speak
to
her
,
in
order
to
the
satisfaction
of
his
curiosity
,
goes
into
her
chamber
,
telling
her
it
was
a
close
day
,
and
that
he
was
afraid
she
might
over-sleep
her self
,
and
craving
her
pardon
that
he
had
taken
the
boldness
to
give
her
that
caution
.
She
thank'd
him
for
the
tenderness
he
had
for
her
health
,
and
assur'd
him
,
that
she
had
not
refresh'd
her self
at
all
,
the
trouble
she
was
in
not
permitting
her
to
take
any
rest
.
He
begg'd
of
her
that
she
would
no
longer
smother
the
cause
of
her
disquiet
,
and
renew'd
the
proffers
he
had
made
to
serve
her
to
the
utmost
of
his
power
.
Having
return'd
him
her
thanks
,
and
thinking
it
now
time
to
make
some
progress
in
her
design
,
she
gave
him
this
relation
of
her
adventures
.
Granada
,
one
of
the
most
famous
and
eminent
Cities
of
Spain
,
is
the
place
of
my
birth
;
my
parents
(
there
's
no
necessity
I
should
name
them
)
are
of
the
most
antient
and
most
noble
families
of
any
in
all
the
Mountains
of
old
Casteel
,
and
the
whole
issue
of
their
matrimony
was
onely
a
Brother
of
mine
and
my self
.
My
Brother
spent
the
youthful
part
of
his
age
in
courting
Ladies
,
and
,
among
other
young
persons
like
himself
,
he
plaid
some
mad
pranks
of
youth
,
which
oblig'd
him
,
for
fear
of
falling
into
the
hands
of
Justice
,
to
absent
himself
from
Granada
;
and
for
my
part
,
I
made
it
my
onely
business
to
serve
and
humour
those
who
had
brought
me
into
the
world
.
I
spent
the
days
at
my
needle
,
not
taking
example
from
my
companions
,
who
onely
minded
their
divertisements
;
nay
I
was
so
ignorant
what
love
meant
,
that
I
laugh'd
at
whatever
related
thereto
,
and
thought
those
,
who
spent
their
time
in
courtships
and
entertaining
those
they
call'd
their
Gallants
,
little
better
than
so
many
distracted
persons
.
But
Love
it
seems
would
punish
this
contempt
of
mine
,
and
you
shall
see
how
he
did
it
.
My
Father
and
Mother
being
one
day
gone
to
visit
a
friend
of
theirs
in
the
Country
,
who
had
buried
his
wife
not
long
before
,
I
heard
in
the
street
the
clashing
of
swords
,
as
if
some
people
had
been
fighting
.
I
look'd
out
at
the
window
to
see
what
might
be
the
matter
.
I
had
never
been
guilty
of
such
a
curiosity
before
,
and
had
it
been
God's
pleasure
I
should
have
shunn'd
it
then
,
I
should
not
now
be
telling
you
my
misfortunes
,
which
are
such
,
that
I
shall
never
think
on
them
without
tears
.
I
there
saw
,
to
my
sorrow
,
three
men
with
their
swords
drawn
,
fighting
against
one
,
who
defended
himself
with
so
great
courage
,
that
he
not
onely
made
his
party
good
a
long
time
against
so
many
enemies
,
but
also
hurt
two
of
them
in
the
head
,
he
himself
having
receiv'd
onely
a
slight
wound
.
These
three
Hectors
finding
themselves
so
worsted
by
one
person
,
resolv'd
to
do
their
utmost
to
take
away
his
life
;
so
that
exasperated
by
their
wounds
,
they
press'd
upon
him
so
much
,
that
he
was
forc'd
to
retreat
within
our
gate
,
where
they
gave
him
two
several
thrusts
into
the
breast
,
upon
which
he
fell
,
and
was
left
for
dead
.
Mov'd
with
compassion
to
see
so
proper
a
young
man
so
disadvantageously
engag'd
,
I
came
down
to
the
gate
,
calling
my
Maids
about
me
,
to
see
what
might
be
done
for
him
,
(
our
house
being
in
a
lone-street
)
for
those
who
were
come
upon
the
noise
we
made
were
so
few
,
and
those
unarm'd
,
that
they
were
not
able
to
part
them
.
We
lock'd
the
doors
and
brought
him
in
,
and
a
Chirurgeon
was
immediately
sent
for
.
His
wounds
were
so
great
,
that
we
thought
fit
to
dispose
him
into
a
bed
,
in
a
ground-room
,
where
my
Brother
was
wont
to
lie
.
The
young
man
thank'd
me
very
civilly
for
the
favour
he
receiv'd
from
me
;
but
alas
!
that
good
office
began
with
Compassion
,
but
ended
in
Love
.
The
Chirurgeon
view'd
his
wounds
,
but
could
not
presently
give
any
certain
judgment
of
them
,
though
he
whisper'd
me
in
the
ear
,
that
he
thought
they
might
cost
him
his
life
.
That
account
of
him
struck
me
to
the
heart
,
for
having
seen
him
fight
so
gallantly
,
I
must
needs
acknowledge
,
that
I
had
even
then
conceiv'd
an
inclination
for
him
.
But
his
kind
expressions
afterwards
,
and
his
thanking
me
so
gentilly
for
the
obligations
he
said
I
had
put
upon
him
,
rais'd
it
into
a
perfect
Love
.
My
Father
and
Mother
return'd
from
their
visit
,
and
,
ere
they
were
got
to
our
house
,
were
told
by
one
of
the
Neighbours
,
a
person
of
some
quality
,
what
had
happened
in
their
absence
,
and
how
that
I
had
put
a
period
to
a
quarrel
,
by
entertaining
the
wounded
party
into
their
house
,
out
of
compassion
and
a
fear
that
he
might
be
kill'd
;
whereat
they
were
well
satisfi'd
,
and
commended
the
charitable
office
I
had
done
at
such
an
extremity
;
for
they
were
persons
who
gladly
embrac'd
any
opportunity
to
exercise
their
charity
.
They
visited
the
wounded
,
encourag'd
him
to
take
heart
,
assuring
him
he
should
want
nothing
their
House
could
afford
,
and
acknowledg'd
it
well
done
by
me
,
that
I
had
so
rescu'd
him
,
upon
which
I
took
occasion
to
spend
most
of
my
time
in
waiting
on
him
;
him
,
I
say
,
who
is
the
cause
of
all
the
troubles
and
afflictions
which
lye
so
heavy
upon
me
.
At
the
second
dressing
,
the
Chirurgeon
assur'd
us
that
his
wounds
were
not
mortal
,
which
caus'd
much
joy
in
our
House
,
particularly
to
me
,
who
became
every
day
more
and
more
passionately
in
love
with
him
.
As
often
as
I
could
get
out
of
my
Father
and
Mother's
fight
,
I
went
to
pass
away
the
time
in
his
Chamber
,
for
which
kindness
he
made
me
extraordinary
acknowledgments
.
This
young
Cavalier
was
born
at
Pampeluna
,
and
one
of
the
most
eminent
in
that
City
.
His
business
at
Granada
was
to
prosecute
a
Law-suit
,
against
a
very
powerful
person
,
who
finding
but
little
justice
of
his
side
,
that
the
cause
was
of
great
importance
,
and
that
notwithstanding
the
favour
he
had
in
Court
,
the
Judges
must
pass
sentence
against
him
,
would
put
a
period
to
the
Suit
by
a
shorter
cut
,
and
rid
himself
of
his
Adversary
,
by
employing
three
Men
to
murther
him
,
who
were
his
own
menial
Servants
.
A
month
slipp'd
away
,
ere
Leonardo
(
so
was
the
wounded
person
named
)
got
out
of
his
Bed
,
having
all
that
time
been
attended
with
as
much
care
as
might
be
.
The
second
day
after
his
getting
up
,
he
had
the
opportunity
to
see
me
,
for
my
Mother
was
gone
abroad
upon
a
visit
,
wherein
I
accompany'd
her
not
,
because
I
had
a
greater
mind
to
be
alone
with
my
young
Gallant
.
He
discover'd
himself
to
me
so
opportunely
,
and
gave
me
such
sensible
assurances
of
his
affection
,
that
it
rais'd
a
no
less
in
me
towards
him
,
insomuch
that
there
past
mutual
promises
of
fidelity
between
us
.
I
knew
nothing
all
this
time
that
my
Father
was
upon
a
treaty
of
Marriage
between
me
and
a
Gentleman
of
Granada
,
who
was
infinitely
desirous
to
enter
into
our
alliance
,
while
I
was
very
well
satisfy'd
with
the
choice
I
had
made
my self
.
Leonardo
,
coming
to
hear
of
the
others
pretensions
to
me
,
was
not
a
little
troubled
at
it
;
but
the
onely
remedy
was
patience
,
in
regard
he
would
make
no
discovery
of
his
Estate
,
till
his
Law-suit
were
ended
,
which
he
hoped
would
be
in
a
short
time
,
and
I
in
the
mean
time
kept
my
Father
in
play
with
persuasions
,
that
he
would
not
be
over-hasty
in
concluding
my
Marriage
with
the
Granadine
.
Leonardo
being
perfectly
cur'd
,
and
requiting
the
kindness
and
noble
entertainment
he
had
receiv'd
at
our
House
,
with
many
considerable
presents
,
return'd
to
his
own
Quarters
,
to
bring
his
business
to
a
final
end
.
For
my
part
,
my
troubles
increas'd
more
and
more
upon
me
;
for
my
Father
,
never
giving
me
any
notice
of
it
,
as
if
I
had
been
a
person
not
at
all
concern'd
,
concluded
the
contract
with
the
Granadine
,
and
pass'd
his
word
he
should
have
me
;
which
when
I
came
to
understand
,
I
was
so
strucken
,
that
I
minded
not
what
I
did
.
This
new
Servant
of
mine
,
who
expected
ere
long
to
be
my
Master
,
came
to
give
me
a
visit
:
but
I
soon
satisfy'd
him
,
that
he
had
reckon'd
before
his
Hostess
,
for
whereas
he
had
flatter'd
himself
into
a
foolish
imagination
that
he
should
have
found
the
kindest
reception
in
the
world
from
me
,
he
met
with
such
a
repulse
,
as
he
himself
concluded
,
must
rather
proceed
from
the
aversion
,
than
any
indifference
I
had
for
him
.
In
a
word
,
being
not
of
those
Favourites
of
fortune
,
who
promise
themselves
the
attainment
of
things
impossible
,
he
easily
discover'd
,
that
my
refusal
was
the
effect
of
some
other
cause
,
than
the
modesty
,
which
a
young
Maid
ought
at
least
pretend
to
upon
such
occasions
:
and
knowing
withall
that
the
wounded
Leonardo
had
lodg'd
some
time
in
our
House
,
he
presum'd
,
that
my
disdain
towards
him
was
occasion'd
by
the
love
I
had
for
the
other
,
and
thence
inferr'd
,
that
having
not
been
so
happy
as
to
prevent
him
in
the
acquisition
of
my
favour
,
he
had
,
at
best
,
but
a
hazardous
after-game
to
recover
it
.
The
jealousie
he
conceiv'd
upon
this
presumption
oblig'd
him
to
make
trial
of
all
the
ways
he
could
imagine
,
to
be
assur'd
of
it
,
so
as
that
he
might
not
do
any
thing
,
whereof
it
should
afterwards
repent
him
.
Should
all
do
so
,
there
would
not
be
so
many
groundless
quarrels
.
I
was
in
an
extraordinary
confusion
during
these
overtures
;
I
acquainted
Leonardo
with
my
condition
;
he
came
to
see
me
that
very
night
,
and
we
agreed
,
the
next
,
to
leave
my
Father's
house
,
and
to
go
to
some
of
his
Relations
,
where
we
might
be
secretly
Married
.
The
expected
hour
being
come
(
unhappy
hour
to
me
,
considering
the
misfortunes
I
have
run
through
since
!
)
as
my
Dearest
and
I
were
going
out
of
the
House
and
crossing
into
another
Street
,
my
jealous
Servant
(
who
spent
the
nights
to
be
assur'd
of
his
suspition
,
which
he
now
found
to
be
too
true
)
presently
knew
us
,
and
,
attended
by
two
Servants
,
he
set
upon
Leonardo
,
never
thinking
of
any
such
surprise
;
so
that
ere
he
had
the
time
to
draw
his
Sword
,
he
receiv'd
three
mortal
wounds
,
and
fell
down
dead
,
having
not
been
able
to
speak
one
word
.
The
little
noise
which
the
murtherers
had
made
,
occasion'd
the
Neighbours
to
come
out
with
lights
,
upon
the
appearance
whereof
they
ran
away
,
fearing
they
might
be
discover'd
.
By
this
time
there
was
a
great
stir
at
my
Father's
,
that
I
could
not
be
found
,
while
I
was
in
a
manner
dead
,
to
see
my
Dearest
lying
breathless
at
my
feet
.
Having
recover'd
my self
,
I
consider'd
it
was
to
little
purpose
for
me
to
stay
in
the
street
,
after
such
an
accident
,
so
that
putting
off
my
Pattins
,
and
tucking
up
my
Coats
,
I
ran
away
as
fast
as
I
could
,
to
a
friend's
house
of
my
Father's
,
an
aged
person
and
very
poor
,
whom
I
told
what
had
happened
to
me
,
and
how
much
it
concern'd
me
not
to
stay
any
longer
at
Granada
.
Whereupon
taking
a
Horse
,
he
set
me
on
him
,
and
brought
me
to
the
next
Village
,
where
we
took
up
another
for
him
,
and
thence
we
are
come
hither
,
to
avoid
my
Father
,
who
,
accompany'd
by
Officers
,
makes
a
search
after
me
,
as
I
have
understood
by
the
way
.
For
that
reason
I
thought
it
not
safe
,
that
we
should
go
into
Sevil
as
soon
as
we
came
hither
,
but
that
it
was
better
I
conceal'd
my self
in
some
place
near
it
.
It
was
the
pleasure
of
fortune
to
direct
me
to
this
Habitation
of
yours
,
into
which
,
upon
extraordinary
intreaties
your
Gardener
ventur'd
to
receive
me
for
this
last
night
.
Thus
Sir
,
have
you
the
story
of
a
wretched
Maid
(
if
there
ever
were
any
such
)
whose
onely
comfort
now
is
in
the
good
entertainment
you
are
pleas'd
to
afford
her
.
May
Heaven
requite
your
charity
,
since
there
cannot
be
a
greater
than
to
relieve
such
as
are
afflicted
and
persecuted
to
the
extremity
that
I
am
.
The
conclusion
of
this
dismal
story
,
which
Rufina
had
had
the
time
to
invent
and
study
so
well
,
was
a
shower
of
Crocodile-tears
,
which
rais'd
such
a
compassion
in
Marquina
,
that
he
could
not
forbear
them
himself
.
The
subtle
Baggage
,
who
notwithstanding
her
counterfeit
tears
observ'd
all
the
actions
of
Marquina
,
perceiv'd
that
he
gave
credit
to
her
feign'd
story
,
and
that
Love
began
to
enter
at
that
breach
which
compassion
had
made
in
his
heart
.
This
encourag'd
Rufina
to
prosecute
her
imposture
,
being
now
in
a
manner
confident
to
bring
it
to
some
effect
.
They
continu'd
a
good
while
together
,
she
weeping
,
as
if
she
had
done
it
for
a
wager
,
and
he
endeavouring
all
he
could
to
comfort
her
:
but
that
comfort
came
not
up
to
the
height
of
offering
her
the
remedy
she
could
have
wish'd
,
for
he
had
not
yet
overcome
his
covetous
humour
.
Having
with
great
attention
consider'd
the
great
beauty
of
Rufina
,
her
affliction
,
and
strange
adventures
,
and
that
this
happiness
was
as
it
were
fallen
into
his
mouth
,
he
inferr'd
that
Heaven
,
as
a
signal
addition
to
his
former
happiness
,
had
directed
her
to
his
House
.
This
was
the
first
love
that
had
ever
mov'd
Marquina's
heart
,
and
,
in
all
sorts
of
persons
that
first
passion
ever
acts
violently
.
Is
Marquina
fallen
in
love
?
He
must
needs
then
be
liberal
.
Hath
he
entertain'd
Rufina
into
his
House
?
That
kindness
will
be
the
dearest
to
him
that
he
ever
did
.
O
Love
!
O
insinuating
Passion
,
who
dost
bewitch
the
World
,
who
dost
ruine
and
beset
Men
!
what
Metamorphoses
dost
thou
not
work
in
them
?
what
Dispositions
dost
thou
not
change
?
what
Resolutions
dost
thou
not
dispence
with
?
what
Felicities
dost
thou
not
disturb
?
And
what
Hearts
is
it
not
in
thy
power
to
soften
?
That
of
this
insatiable
Miser
,
which
had
cast
off
all
sense
of
humanity
towards
his
nearest
Relations
,
love
hath
chang'd
;
so
that
he
hath
transform'd
a
covetous
and
sordid
Person
into
a
liberal
and
magnificent
.
He
is
extreamly
taken
with
Rufina
;
he
is
passionately
in
love
with
her
;
she
will
ere
long
be
Mistress
of
his
heart
and
wealth
.
She
said
many
things
in
her
relation
,
which
might
have
betray'd
her
,
had
not
the
affection
,
wherewith
Marquina
hearkened
to
her
,
clos'd
both
his
Eyes
and
Ears
:
nay
,
he
was
so
prepossess'd
with
his
passion
,
that
he
would
have
believ'd
many
other
things
from
her
,
though
they
had
been
more
improbable
than
they
were
.
The
effect
of
this
sad
narration
of
Rufina
,
was
,
that
Marquina
proffer'd
her
all
the
favour
and
assistance
she
could
expect
from
him
,
his
Estate
,
Life
,
Heart
and
Soul
,
giving
her
the
title
of
absolute
Mistress
of
all
he
was
possess'd
of
,
further
entreating
her
,
of
all
love
,
to
give
over
thinking
of
her
misfortunes
,
and
assure
her self
that
she
was
in
a
House
where
she
might
command
,
and
that
what
ever
she
desir'd
,
her
orders
should
be
obey'd
,
as
far
as
it
lay
in
his
power
.
Rufina
very
kindly
thank'd
him
for
so
many
generous
proffers
,
concluding
her
complement
with
a
fresh
shower
of
tears
,
a
kind
of
tempest
she
could
raise
,
when
ever
she
either
pleas'd
,
or
stood
in
need
thereof
.
With
these
artifices
,
she
became
Mistress
of
Marquina
and
all
he
had
,
so
as
that
she
might
dispose
of
him
and
it
,
as
she
pleas'd
.
Her
beauty
had
given
him
a
kind
of
Itch
,
and
he
was
mighty
desirous
to
try
whether
she
would
be
as
willing
to
cure
him
of
it
:
but
he
knew
not
well
how
to
acquaint
her
with
his
indisposition
;
he
resolv'd
at
last
,
in
case
he
could
do
no
good
upon
her
by
his
submissions
and
presents
,
to
use
the
last
remedy
,
which
was
to
Marry
her
.
This
is
a
Bait
that
many
times
takes
the
shyest
of
that
subtle
Sex
;
but
when
they
are
so
taken
,
he
that
does
it
is
commonly
snapp'd
himself
.
I
told
you
before
,
that
Rufina
had
no
other
design
than
to
examine
the
Chests
of
the
greedy
Merchant
,
and
that
she
would
not
be
any
way
engag'd
till
she
were
secure
of
her
prize
;
for
the
rascally
trick
shewn
by
Ruperio
,
had
made
her
extreamly
distrustful
.
Marquina
staid
all
that
day
in
his
Garden
,
and
neglected
his
business
in
the
City
;
but
the
next
morning
betimes
,
leaving
his
Guest
asleep
,
he
takes
his
Mule
,
and
goes
about
his
ordinary
occasions
,
having
charg'd
the
Gardener's
Wife
,
to
get
a
good
breakfast
for
the
Lady
,
as
soon
as
she
were
awake
,
and
to
have
a
care
of
the
House
.
He
lock'd
the
Chamber-door
where
his
Money
was
,
and
as
he
went
out
,
charg'd
the
Gardener
not
to
suffer
any
to
come
into
his
Garden
,
but
the
Old
man
who
had
brought
Theodora
thither
,
for
that
was
the
name
the
dissembling
Rufina
had
given
her self
.
That
done
,
he
went
about
his
business
,
attended
by
the
little
Negro
,
whom
he
gave
Money
to
buy
Provisions
for
a
good
Dinner
.
Rufina
got
up
,
and
the
Gardener's
wife
punctually
obey'd
the
orders
she
had
receiv'd
from
her
Master
,
treating
her
the
best
she
could
,
out
of
this
respect
,
that
all
the
Domesticks
made
their
advantage
of
those
magnificences
.
Rufina
comes
down
into
the
Garden
,
where
she
took
occasion
to
commend
the
walks
,
and
contrivances
of
it
,
for
the
Gardener
kept
it
in
very
good
order
,
and
well
supply'd
with
herbs
,
fruits
,
and
flowers
.
Finding
the
Sun
beginning
to
grow
hot
,
she
went
into
the
House
,
where
casually
meeting
with
a
Lute
,
on
which
Marquina's
factor
was
wont
to
play
,
she
set
it
in
Tune
,
and
made
that
her
entertainment
,
till
such
time
as
Marquina
return'd
from
the
City
,
who
hearing
her
at
it
,
was
not
a
little
glad
to
find
that
perfection
in
her
more
than
he
knew
before
.
Perceiving
that
Marquina
hearkened
to
her
Musick
,
she
joyn'd
her
Voice
to
the
Instrument
,
to
breed
one
maggot
more
in
his
brain
than
he
had
already
.
She
sung
so
excellently
,
that
Marquina
was
ravish'd
at
the
melody
,
and
acknowledg'd
that
it
was
not
the
Voice
of
a
mortal
Creature
,
but
an
Angel
come
down
from
Heaven
.
He
continu'd
his
attention
a
while
,
imagining
she
would
have
begun
another
Song
;
but
perceiving
she
laid
by
the
Lute
,
he
comes
into
the
Room
,
and
,
transported
with
joy
,
How
hath
this
poor
Habitation
been
felicify'd
,
said
he
to
her
,
by
your
retirement
into
it
,
most
adorable
Theodora
?
What
happiness
did
the
hour
of
your
arrival
here
bring
me
who
never
had
known
any
before
?
What
honour
have
I
receiv'd
in
beholding
your
transcendent
Beauty
,
and
to
observe
in
you
from
time
to
time
a
thousand
unknown
excellencies
which
are
not
discover'd
at
the
first
sight
?
This
house
may
,
no
doubt
,
enter
into
competition
with
Heaven
it self
,
since
such
an
Angel
honours
it
with
her
divine
presence
.
What
I
say
,
Madam
,
is
but
little
,
in
comparison
of
the
passion
I
have
for
your
worth
,
which
were
it
to
be
commended
proportionably
to
the
apprehension
I
have
of
it
,
I
think
the
most
eloquent
persons
that
ever
were
,
would
be
at
a
loss
for
expressions
suitable
to
so
adorable
a
subject
.
You
press
too
hard
upon
me
,
Dear
Sir
,
replies
the
counterfeit
Theodora
,
seeming
to
blush
at
those
excessive
praises
;
I
am
not
such
a
stranger
to
my self
,
but
that
I
know
it
argues
excess
in
the
highest
degree
,
to
bestow
such
extraordinary
commendations
,
on
a
person
that
deserves
so
little
.
Had
I
mistrusted
your
being
within
hearing
,
I
would
have
put
off
my
diversion
to
another
time
,
since
't
is
not
unlikely
my
Voice
may
seem
harsh
to
you
,
compar'd
to
the
excellent
ones
of
this
City
,
which
you
often
hear
,
unless
it
be
,
that
generous
natures
have
an
inclination
to
favour
persons
of
mean
parts
,
by
flattering
them
,
by
their
praises
,
into
an
imagination
,
that
their
endowments
are
greater
than
indeed
they
are
.
No
more
complements
,
I
beseech
you
,
replies
Marquina
,
rais'd
up
to
the
highest
pitch
of
besotted
Love
,
my
words
come
short
of
my
faith
,
and
I
am
to
assure
you
withall
,
Madam
,
that
though
I
have
heard
excellent
Voices
in
Sevil
,
(
for
I
must
confess
there
are
some
such
)
yet
yours
is
infinitely
beyond
any
of
them
.
Your
most
humble
Servant
,
Sir
,
says
Rufina
,
your
commendations
are
infinitely
beyond
my
deserts
,
and
the
honour
you
do
me
can
do
no
less
than
raise
in
me
a
hearty
wish
,
that
my
poor
abilities
might
find
you
some
further
diversion
with
this
Instrument
,
since
you
are
pleas'd
to
acknowledge
your self
so
much
satisfy'd
therewith
:
But
my
troubles
are
so
great
and
pressing
,
that
in
what
I
did
,
I
minded
onely
my
own
.
I
must
see
them
at
an
end
,
ere
you
leave
this
House
,
says
Marquina
to
her
,
and
therefore
let
me
intreat
you
,
if
you
cannot
conclude
an
absolute
peace
with
your
afflictions
,
at
least
condescend
to
a
short
cessation
of
arms
.
These
reiterations
of
your
favours
must
needs
extreamly
oblige
me
,
replies
Rufina
,
and
consequently
force
me
to
a
greatful
compliance
with
your
commands
,
as
far
as
lies
in
my
power
:
but
I
cannot
promise
it
you
so
fully
as
I
wish
,
finding
the
person
who
brought
me
hither
,
hath
forgotten
he
did
it
,
otherwise
he
would
have
found
some
means
to
have
given
me
a
Visit
once
in
three
days
.
Let
not
that
create
you
any
trouble
,
replies
the
amorous
Merchant
,
but
rather
imagine
there
may
be
some
just
cause
of
his
neglect
.
I
have
some
apprehension
,
said
she
,
that
he
may
be
return'd
to
Granada
,
out
of
a
fear
,
that
,
being
miss'd
there
,
he
might
be
question'd
as
a
Complice
of
my
escape
;
and
this
would
prove
the
greatest
of
all
my
misfortunes
,
for
if
he
be
gone
,
he
hath
carried
all
I
had
along
with
him
.
Never
fear
it
,
says
Marquina
,
for
he
must
have
more
compassion
than
to
forsake
you
in
so
great
an
extremity
;
but
though
he
and
all
else
fail
you
,
assure
your self
,
I
shall
not
,
whereof
I
cannot
give
you
a
greater
assurance
,
than
you
may
derive
from
this
sincere
protestation
,
of
my
being
so
passionately
your
Servant
,
that
I
imagine
not
my self
to
be
the
same
person
I
was
before
I
saw
you
.
This
transformation
is
wholly
to
be
attributed
to
your
Divinity
,
and
thence
you
may
inferr
the
influence
you
have
over
me
.
Having
so
said
,
Marquina
made
an
absolute
discovery
of
his
Love
;
the
cunning
Gypsie
pretending
she
understood
not
his
meaning
,
return'd
civil
Answers
to
the
proffers
he
made
her
,
acknowledging
her self
extreamly
oblig'd
to
him
for
his
kindness
,
and
that
she
doubted
not
of
the
performance
of
what
he
was
pleas'd
,
out
of
his
own
good
nature
to
promise
.
By
this
time
,
Dinner
was
set
on
the
Table
;
they
both
sat
down
,
and
the
entertainment
was
very
noble
,
suitable
to
the
Love
of
the
Founder
;
for
where
that
little
Deity
comes
once
to
reign
,
the
first
Act
he
makes
,
is
for
the
banishment
of
all
baseness
and
avarice
.
Rufina
and
Garay
had
agreed
together
,
that
he
should
come
to
her
,
when
he
were
sure
the
old
Merchant
was
abroad
,
and
that
he
should
disguise
himself
like
a
Beggar
,
that
he
might
not
be
known
,
nor
any
suspition
be
conceiv'd
of
him
.
She
had
studied
several
ways
to
chouse
the
Merchant
of
some
part
of
his
Treasure
,
but
she
could
not
fix
on
any
one
she
thought
might
prove
effectual
,
the
Chamber
where
it
was
Lock'd
being
extreamly
fortify'd
.
She
had
continu'd
there
three
days
ere
she
had
either
seen
or
heard
from
Garay
,
and
during
the
time
,
she
express'd
so
great
a
discontent
,
as
put
Marquina
to
much
trouble
,
in
regard
it
kept
him
from
making
those
free
discoveries
of
his
Love
,
which
he
would
otherwise
have
done
.
In
the
mean
time
Rufina
,
who
watch'd
all
occasions
,
cunningly
discover'd
the
place
where
the
Old
man
hid
the
Keys
of
his
Iron
chests
.
Marquina
went
,
according
to
his
custom
,
into
the
City
,
which
being
observ'd
by
Garay
,
he
comes
to
his
House
in
Beggars
weeds
,
as
they
had
agreed
together
,
with
two
Crutches
.
Being
got
under
the
Window
,
at
which
Rufina
was
looking
out
,
he
begg'd
an
alms
of
her
.
She
threw
him
down
something
,
and
ask'd
him
whence
he
came
,
whereto
Garay
answering
that
he
was
of
Granada
,
she
seem'd
to
be
extreamly
glad
,
and
thereupon
turning
to
the
Gardener's
wife
,
Let
us
go
down
a
little
into
the
Garden
,
said
she
to
her
,
this
poor
fellow
is
come
out
of
my
Country
,
I
would
fain
have
some
discourse
with
him
,
to
know
what
news
he
hath
brought
thence
.
The
poor
Woman
suspecting
nothing
,
made
no
difficulty
to
let
him
into
the
Garden
.
Rufina
ask'd
him
how
long
it
was
since
he
had
left
Granada
;
whereto
he
answering
,
about
nine
or
ten
days
,
she
continu'd
her
questions
so
long
,
that
the
Gardener's
wife
weary
of
their
discourse
,
and
having
something
else
to
do
,
left
them
.
Being
rid
of
her
,
they
consider'd
what
was
to
be
put
in
execution
the
night
following
,
and
agreed
upon
the
course
they
were
to
take
,
to
possess
themselves
of
Marquina's
Treasure
.
That
done
,
Garay
departed
,
and
Rufina
went
up
to
her
Chamber
,
telling
the
Gardener's
wife
,
she
had
understood
so
much
from
that
poor
fellow
,
concerning
her
affairs
,
that
it
would
not
be
long
ere
she
return'd
into
her
Country
.
The
Gardener's
wife
,
and
the
Maid
were
little
pleas'd
to
hear
that
news
,
as
fearing
their
Master
would
,
upon
her
departure
,
re-assume
his
niggardly
humour
,
and
keep
as
miserable
a
a
house
as
he
had
done
before
,
nay
haply
put
himself
and
all
the
servants
to
a
greater
penance
in
their
diet
,
to
get
up
what
had
been
squander'd
away
,
during
her
aboad
there
.
Marquina
being
come
home
found
Rufina
that
night
more
cheerful
than
at
any
time
before
;
which
gave
him
the
confidence
to
acquaint
her
more
freely
with
his
love
then
he
had
done
,
and
to
assure
her
of
the
disquiet
he
was
in
upon
her
account
.
Rufina
seem'd
not
to
take
it
amiss
,
nay
by
a
greater
familiarity
then
she
had
express'd
towards
him
before
,
she
rais'd
in
him
some
hopes
of
seeing
his
desires
satisfi'd
:
whence
the
old
dotard
began
to
presume
,
that
the
fort
would
in
a
short
time
be
taken
in
upon
reasonable
tearms
.
Upon
this
presumption
,
he
bestow'd
on
her
a
Ring
,
which
he
had
purposely
bought
for
her
,
wherein
was
a
Diamond
worth
about
an
hundred
crowns
,
set
about
with
little
Rubies
.
The
Lady
gave
him
many
thanks
for
so
noble
a
present
,
and
in
requital
promis'd
him
a
Lesson
on
the
Lute
,
to
which
she
sung
some
new
Aires
,
though
she
quarrell'd
at
the
dulness
of
the
Instrument
.
Marquina
promis'd
her
a
better
the
next
day
.
They
parted
for
that
time
,
but
with
different
thoughts
,
Marquina
desirous
to
obtain
those
favours
he
expected
from
Rufina
,
and
to
oblige
her
thereto
by
presents
,
which
overcome
the
greatest
difficulties
;
and
Rufina
contriving
how
to
compass
the
robbery
she
intended
.
The
next
day
,
Garay
(
a
person
of
great
experience
in
such
designs
)
got
some
others
of
the
same
profession
to
carry
on
the
work
;
and
having
observ'd
Marquina
going
into
his
house
,
they
staid
till
he
were
gone
to
bed
,
which
was
somewhat
late
,
for
Rufina
,
who
held
a
correspondence
with
them
,
had
purposely
kept
him
up
.
About
midnight
,
Garay
and
his
Camerades
brought
a
thing
that
had
the
figure
of
a
man
,
stuff'd
with
straw
,
having
about
him
a
cloak
,
which
cast
over
his
shoulder
,
cover'd
his
face
,
and
pitch'd
it
over
against
the
principal
window
towards
the
garden
,
which
was
that
part
of
the
house
where
Marquina
lodg'd
,
and
left
it
there
fastned
to
a
stake
they
had
thrust
into
the
ground
.
The
night
was
somewhat
dark
,
and
so
more
proper
for
their
design
.
Having
plac'd
that
figure
,
as
I
told
you
,
they
knock'd
at
the
door
so
loud
that
it
might
have
been
heard
from
one
end
of
the
Garden
to
the
other
.
Marquina
awaken'd
thereby
leaps
out
of
his
bed
,
it
being
strange
to
him
to
hear
such
knocking
at
his
garden
door
,
at
such
an
unseasonable
time
,
as
being
a
thing
had
never
happen'd
to
him
before
.
He
call'd
up
his
servant
,
and
bid
him
see
who
knock'd
at
the
door
.
The
servant
went
out
between
sleeping
and
waking
to
see
what
the
matter
was
,
calling
as
loud
as
he
could
,
Who
knocks
there
?
But
no
body
answering
,
and
he
not
minding
the
figure
that
stood
in
the
garden
,
told
his
Master
that
there
was
not
any
body
.
Marquina
upon
that
got
into
bed
again
and
compos'd
himself
to
rest
,
but
it
was
soon
interrupted
,
for
Garay
knock'd
more
violently
than
he
had
done
before
,
which
astonish'd
him
the
more
,
and
oblig'd
him
to
send
down
his
m●n
a
second
time
,
to
see
what
the
matter
was
.
Bringing
his
Master
the
same
account
he
had
done
before
,
he
got
up
himself
,
puts
his
cloak
about
him
,
and
calls
at
the
window
,
Who
knocks
at
my
door
thus
unseasonably
?
Whereto
no
Answer
being
made
,
he
grew
the
more
enrag'd
;
but
looking
a
little
more
earnestly
about
the
house
than
his
man
had
done
,
he
perceiv'd
the
figure
planted
before
his
windows
.
Marquina
was
extremely
afraid
,
at
the
sight
of
a
person
,
who
,
as
he
thought
,
knock'd
at
his
door
,
yet
made
him
no
answer
,
and
assuming
more
courage
than
he
was
naturally
Master
of
,
he
said
to
him
very
loud
,
'T
is
basely
done
of
you
,
Sir
,
to
abuse
me
thus
,
you
shall
find
I
am
not
a
person
to
suffer
it
;
pray
keep
on
your
way
,
and
disturb
not
my
rest
any
more
,
if
you
think
not
your self
invulnerable
,
and
that
a
brace
of
good
bullets
will
make
no
impression
in
your
inchanted
skin
.
Having
made
that
bravado
he
shut
to
the
window
and
went
to
bed
;
but
he
was
hardly
got
warm
in
it
,
ere
they
began
to
knock
more
violently
than
they
had
done
before
;
which
oblig'd
him
to
take
a
fire-lock
,
which
he
kept
always
ready
charg'd
for
the
security
of
his
mony
.
Opening
the
window
,
he
found
still
in
the
same
posture
,
him
,
who
would
not
have
stirr'd
out
of
it
,
had
he
not
been
forc'd
by
some
other
.
What
obstinacy
of
impudence
is
it
in
you
,
said
he
to
him
,
very
much
incens'd
,
to
do
a
mischief
,
you
are
nothing
the
better
for
,
in
thus
disturbing
my
rest
?
't
is
impardonable
,
and
deserves
an
exemplary
chastisement
;
be
you
gone
immediately
from
my
door
,
or
I
shall
send
you
going
the
next
way
.
Whereupon
cocking
the
fire-lock
,
and
aiming
at
him
,
and
the
other
never
stirring
,
as
it
were
out
of
a
presumption
,
that
he
had
not
any
fire-arms
,
wherewith
he
might
make
good
his
threats
,
he
gave
him
notice
the
third
time
,
that
he
would
not
oblige
him
to
do
a
violence
which
he
was
unwilling
to
do
.
At
last
perceiving
he
minded
not
any
thing
he
said
,
but
as
't
were
defi'd
him
,
he
resolv'd
to
give
fire
,
not
onely
to
frighten
him
,
but
,
if
he
could
,
to
hurt
him
.
He
shot
,
and
the
figure
fell
to
the
ground
,
upon
which
Garay
,
who
was
not
far
off
,
cries
out
with
a
doleful
tone
,
O
God
,
I
am
kill'd
;
and
immediately
he
and
his
Camerades
made
a
great
noise
at
the
sight
of
a
man
so
unfortunately
murther'd
.
Marquina
was
extremely
troubled
at
what
he
had
done
,
it
being
observ'd
,
that
covetous
persons
are
for
the
most
part
cowardly
,
and
extremely
fear
what-ever
may
cause
them
any
loss
.
He
shut
the
window
,
and
in
a
great
fright
awaking
Rufina
(
who
had
greater
things
to
mind
than
sleeping
)
told
her
what
he
had
done
.
She
seem'd
to
be
extremely
troubled
at
it
,
and
much
blam'd
him
,
that
he
had
executed
so
cruel
a
resolution
.
For
since
he
knew
himself
to
be
safe
enough
in
his
own
house
,
he
might
have
suffer'd
them
to
knock
at
his
door
till
they
had
been
weary
;
that
he
had
better
endur'd
that
noise
,
and
lost
a
little
of
his
rest
,
than
be
in
the
trouble
he
was
in
,
that
he
had
been
the
cause
of
a
man's
death
.
She
added
several
other
reasons
,
which
so
confounded
poor
Marquina
,
that
he
knew
not
what
to
do
.
She
advis'd
him
for
his
safety
,
to
go
immediately
and
take
refuge
in
the
Monastery
of
St.
Bernard
,
it
being
certain
,
that
if
the
dead
person
were
found
there
the
next
morning
,
he
would
be
carried
to
prison
,
as
being
murther'd
so
near
his
house
.
Marquina
was
so
perplex'd
,
that
he
wish'd
he
had
never
come
into
the
world
;
and
it
is
to
be
imagin'd
,
that
if
Rufina
had
not
been
very
highly
concern'd
to
dissemble
upon
this
occasion
,
she
would
have
dy'd
with
laughing
.
He
rais'd
up
all
his
people
,
and
told
them
what
had
happen'd
,
and
all
blam'd
him
,
for
his
being
so
forward
to
commit
such
an
action
,
which
made
the
poor
old
dotard
almost
mad
.
He
imagin'd
himself
already
apprehended
,
his
mony
carri'd
away
,
and
but
a
small
matter
between
him
and
hanging
,
at
least
if
he
were
oblig'd
by
tortures
to
acknowledge
his
crime
,
never
considering
that
it
was
pardonable
for
one
man
to
kill
another
in
his
own
defence
.
At
last
,
he
resolv'd
to
go
to
S.
Bernard's
;
but
knew
not
how
to
dispose
of
his
mony
.
He
thought
it
no
prudence
to
leave
it
at
the
discretion
of
his
Servants
;
to
carry
it
to
a
friend's
house
(
in
case
he
had
any
,
for
persons
of
his
humour
have
very
few
)
he
had
not
time
.
In
this
distraction
he
desir'd
Rufina
to
advise
him
;
she
seeming
very
much
troubled
,
and
no
less
fearful
than
he
,
pretended
she
could
not
give
him
any
;
but
after
a
little
pause
she
gave
him
that
advice
,
which
she
had
prepar'd
long
before
,
and
he
follow'd
it
.
She
ask'd
him
what
mony
he
might
have
in
the
house
?
He
ingenuously
confess'd
that
he
had
about
four
thousand
crowns
in
gold
,
and
somewhat
better
than
half
the
said
summe
in
silver
.
I
'l
tell
you
what
I
would
do
,
were
I
in
your
case
,
says
the
subtil
Picara
,
(
since
it
cannot
be
carried
to
a
friend's
house
without
being
seen
)
I
would
burie
it
in
the
garden
,
in
some
place
,
where
you
may
afterwards
find
it
,
by
some
mark
you
shall
set
to
that
purpose
.
This
you
must
do
your self
,
so
as
that
your
very
servants
may
not
know
any
thing
of
it
,
lest
they
might
be
tempted
to
prove
false
to
you
;
for
the
times
are
such
now
,
that
a
man
must
have
a
care
whom
he
trusts
.
I
would
assist
you
herein
,
and
keep
your
counsel
,
were
it
not
that
I
am
afraid
,
when
the
search
comes
to
be
made
,
and
I
be
left
here
,
I
shall
be
the
first
taken
;
and
I
would
be
loath
to
run
my self
into
that
hazard
,
having
but
just
escap'd
those
I
have
acquainted
you
with
.
In
the
midst
of
his
affliction
,
Marquina
was
troubled
to
perceive
by
his
guest's
discourse
,
the
disturbance
she
was
in
upon
his
account
,
and
what
struck
him
most
to
the
heart
,
was
,
that
he
saw
himself
upon
the
point
of
losing
her
.
This
consideration
forc'd
from
him
not
onely
tears
,
but
also
bitter
exclamations
against
the
malicious
crossness
of
his
fortune
.
Rufina
desir'd
him
to
be
of
good
courage
,
persuading
him
to
do
as
she
advis'd
him
,
and
hope
the
best
.
So
that
having
commanded
all
his
servants
to
go
to
their
several
chambers
,
and
not
to
stir
thence
,
he
and
Rufina
,
whom
onely
he
durst
trust
,
went
to
the
place
where
the
mony
was
.
It
lay
in
a
huge
chest
,
cover'd
all
over
with
iron-bars
,
and
the
keys
were
so
extraordinary
,
that
it
was
impossible
to
counterfeit
them
,
or
to
get
a
piece
thence
by
any
other
wile
than
what
was
invented
by
our
subtil
Ferret
.
They
first
took
out
all
the
silver
,
and
then
put
the
gold
into
a
little
box
,
and
,
having
brought
all
into
the
garden
,
they
made
two
holes
,
at
some
distance
one
from
the
other
,
in
one
whereof
they
put
the
silver
,
and
in
the
other
,
the
gold
,
setting
a
mark
that
they
might
find
the
places
again
.
Marquina
took
along
with
him
two
hundred
crowns
in
gold
,
and
gave
Rufina
fifty
,
to
shift
for
her self
,
till
the
business
were
accommodated
.
That
done
,
they
went
up
into
the
house
,
whence
they
might
see
several
persons
walking
with
a
light
;
't
was
Garay
and
his
camerades
,
who
represented
the
Magistrate
,
which
Rufina
shewing
him
,
advis'd
him
to
make
all
the
haste
he
could
to
St.
Bernard's
.
To
do
that
,
they
got
over
the
garden
wall
,
as
being
afraid
to
open
the
door
,
for
they
perceiv'd
the
actors
of
this
comedy
kept
a
watch
there
,
with
such
authority
,
as
if
they
had
really
been
the
Officers
of
Justice
.
All
Marquina's
family
follow'd
him
over
the
wall
,
fearing
they
might
come
into
trouble
for
their
Master's
fault
.
Marquina
and
his
Mistress
lurk'd
somewhere
thereabouts
,
till
it
was
day
,
that
they
might
have
the
Church-door
open
,
to
get
into
the
Monastery
.
Garay
was
hard
by
,
to
see
what
became
of
Marquina
and
his
people
.
Finding
he
had
left
his
house
,
and
got
into
the
Monastery
with
Rufina
,
he
went
about
an
hour
after
Sun-rising
to
St.
Bernard's
,
in
the
habit
of
a
Secular
Priest
,
that
he
might
the
better
speak
to
Rufina
.
She
told
him
how
things
stood
,
and
how
they
had
buried
the
mony
in
the
garden
,
and
that
it
was
all
in
silver
,
intending
to
reserve
all
the
gold
for
her self
.
About
mid-night
Garay
and
one
of
his
Camerades
went
along
with
Rufina
,
disguiz'd
in
man's
cloaths
,
to
the
garden
.
They
help'd
her
over
first
,
to
go
and
see
whether
there
might
be
any
body
in
the
house
,
but
all
were
vanish'd
as
if
the
house
had
been
visited
.
She
thereupon
call'd
Garay
and
his
companion
,
and
,
having
taken
up
the
mony
,
they
carri'd
it
away
,
and
took
up
their
quarters
at
one
of
the
farthest
Inns
of
the
suburbs
.
Having
been
merry
a
while
,
and
drunk
their
own
healths
,
and
to
the
good
success
of
their
future
designs
,
they
went
all
to
bed
,
the
two
men
together
,
and
Rufina
by
her self
.
As
soon
as
she
found
they
were
asleep
,
she
puts
on
the
same
habit
,
and
returns
to
the
garden
.
She
took
up
the
little
box
of
gold
,
and
,
without
any
disaster
,
got
safe
to
the
Inn
before
her
companions
awaked
.
The
next
day
,
having
divided
the
silver
,
whereof
she
and
Garay
had
the
best
part
,
and
sew'd
up
the
gold
in
her
cloaths
,
she
left
Sevit
,
taking
Garay
along
with
her
,
who
,
finding
what
advantages
he
might
make
of
her
company
,
resolv'd
to
run
fortunes
with
her
.
They
took
their
way
towards
Madrid
,
to
which
place
they
will
be
got
,
by
that
time
we
shall
see
what
is
become
of
Marquina
,
whom
we
left
in
St.
Bernard's
Monastery
.
Having
continu'd
there
four
days
after
Rufina's
departure
from
him
,
he
knew
not
what
to
think
of
her
that
she
came
not
again
,
as
she
had
promis'd
.
He
address'd
himself
to
one
of
the
Monks
,
who
had
great
acquaintances
in
the
City
,
and
intreated
him
to
inquire
what
proceedings
there
might
be
against
him
,
upon
the
murther
he
had
committed
.
The
Religious
man
promis'd
him
an
account
of
it
;
but
having
enquir'd
at
those
places
where
he
might
most
probably
hear
thereof
,
no
body
could
give
him
any
satisfaction
.
He
thereupon
told
Marquina
,
that
he
might
safely
go
abroad
and
needed
not
to
fear
any
thing
.
He
went
out
one
night
to
a
friend
's
of
his
,
whom
he
acquainted
with
all
that
had
past
,
as
also
the
great
perplexity
he
was
in
,
desiring
him
to
make
a
more
particular
enquiry
into
the
business
,
than
he
thought
the
Religious
man
had
done
.
He
did
so
,
and
gave
him
the
same
account
as
the
other
.
Yet
would
not
that
satisfie
him
,
but
he
must
desire
his
friend
to
go
to
his
house
,
whereof
he
gave
him
the
Mistris
key
.
He
went
,
and
found
it
without
any
body
in
it
,
and
his
Mule
dead
,
for
want
of
meat
and
tendance
.
He
went
with
this
news
to
his
friend
,
advising
him
to
come
out
of
the
Monastery
,
and
go
home
,
and
thence
about
the
City
,
as
he
was
wont
to
do
.
The
death
of
his
Mule
troubled
him
not
much
,
so
glad
was
he
to
find
himself
once
more
at
liberty
:
the
onely
thing
gave
him
any
disquiet
,
was
,
that
his
Theodora
(
under
which
name
Rufina
went
)
came
not
to
see
him
.
But
he
imagin'd
the
cause
of
it
might
be
,
that
,
being
a
young
Maid
,
she
had
shelter'd
her self
some-where
,
to
keep
out
of
the
hands
of
Justice
,
or
that
haply
she
might
have
been
met
with
by
her
Father
,
who
,
as
she
had
told
him
,
sought
after
her
.
He
went
to
his
house
,
whither
came
soon
after
the
Gardener
and
his
wife
,
and
the
other
servants
.
He
goes
into
the
Garden
,
and
,
notwithstanding
all
the
fear
and
distraction
he
had
been
in
,
remembred
the
place
where
he
had
hid
his
mony
,
and
was
not
a
little
glad
to
find
the
mark
where
he
had
set
it
;
so
that
before
he
went
to
bed
,
he
resolv'd
to
secure
his
treasure
in
its
former
garrison
.
As
soon
as
it
was
dark
,
he
takes
the
Gardener
with
him
,
and
a
Lanthorn
and
Candle
,
and
goes
first
to
the
place
where
the
Silver
was
,
and
bids
him
digg
.
He
did
so
,
but
there
was
nothing
to
be
found
,
whereat
Marquina
was
extremely
surpriz'd
.
He
went
thence
to
the
place
where
they
had
laid
the
gold
,
and
there
they
found
as
little
,
onely
Rufina
knew
what
was
become
of
all
.
He
walk'd
several
turns
about
the
garden
,
with
much
vexation
,
imagining
the
marks
might
be
misplac'd
;
but
what
in
looking
after
the
marks
,
and
what
in
digging
;
the
night
slipp'd
away
,
so
that
at
last
dispairing
to
find
any
thing
that
night
,
he
behav'd
himself
like
a
person
distracted
.
The
Gardener
knew
not
what
he
look'd
for
,
nor
for
what
reason
he
had
brought
him
thither
.
The
poor
man
resolv'd
to
have
a
little
patience
till
the
next
morning
,
being
still
in
some
hope
to
find
what
he
had
hidden
.
He
went
to
bed
,
or
rather
to
spend
the
night
in
unsufferable
torments
:
but
as
soon
as
it
began
to
dawn
,
he
got
up
,
and
having
call'd
up
the
Gardener
,
they
return'd
to
the
work
they
had
been
at
the
night
before
.
Having
digg'd
again
at
those
places
,
where
he
was
confident
he
had
laid
the
mony
,
all
they
could
find
was
,
that
there
had
been
two
holes
made
there
before
,
and
that
mony
or
something
else
had
been
hidden
there
,
but
all
was
remov'd
.
This
assurance
made
him
run
stark
mad
,
throwing
himself
on
the
ground
,
running
his
head
against
the
wall
,
and
doing
such
things
as
rais'd
a
compassion
in
his
servants
,
who
thence
concluded
that
he
had
lost
his
mony
,
and
suspected
the
feign'd
Theodora
,
to
have
robb'd
him
,
by
the
orders
he
gave
them
to
search
after
her
all
over
the
City
.
But
she
was
far
enough
out
of
his
reach
,
and
had
so
wel
secur'd
his
mony
,
that
it
was
not
likely
it
would
come
into
his
chests
any
more
.
He
kept
his
bed
a
good
while
,
our
of
a
pure
madness
,
that
he
had
so
soon
lost
,
what
had
cost
him
many
years
trouble
and
pains
to
get
together
.
The
robbery
was
soon
divulg'd
all
over
the
City
;
some
,
who
knew
not
his
humour
,
pitied
his
misfortune
,
but
such
as
had
experience
of
his
insatiable
avarice
,
were
not
a
little
pleas'd
to
find
him
so
justly
punish'd
.
The
end
of
the
first
Book
.
LA
PICARA
,
OR
The
Triumphs
of
Female
Subtilty
.
The
Second
Book
.
AS
soon
as
our
subtle
Picara
had
done
her
work
at
Marquina's
,
and
had
made
a
broken
Merchant
of
one
,
who
was
accounted
the
wealthiest
about
Sevil
,
she
thought
it
not
prudence
to
make
any
long
s●●y
,
for
fear
of
falling
into
the
hands
of
Justice
,
whose
Officers
would
be
abroad
,
upon
the
sollicitations
of
the
party
robb'd
.
She
was
gotten
far
enough
out
of
the
way
,
ere
he
was
sensible
of
his
loss
,
for
the
next
night
after
they
had
taken
away
the
Money
,
she
and
Garay
hired
two
Mules
,
upon
which
they
came
to
Carmona
,
which
lies
about
half
a
days
journey
from
Sevil.
They
had
taken
up
two
places
in
the
Madrid-coach
,
which
was
to
pass
through
that
City
,
and
take
them
up
as
it
went
.
They
lighted
,
at
Carmona
,
at
one
of
the
best
Inns
,
where
Rufina
,
keeping
out
of
sight
,
was
resolv'd
to
expect
the
Coach
,
considering
with
her self
,
what
she
might
come
to
in
time
,
now
that
she
was
already
Mistress
of
four
thousand
Crowns
in
Gold
,
in
good
double
Pistols
and
Quadruples
,
which
was
all
that
penurious
Merchant
had
gotten
together
,
during
his
whole
Life
,
with
much
pains
taking
,
and
many
a
hazardous
venture
into
the
most
remote
Climats
.
Behold
here
,
the
exemplary
punishment
,
which
many
times
happens
to
those
miserable
wretches
,
who
become
the
Slaves
of
their
own
wealth
.
And
what
infinitely
adds
to
their
misfortune
,
is
,
that
people
are
more
apt
to
congratulate
than
bemoan
it
:
for
how
can
they
expect
that
others
should
have
any
kindness
for
them
,
when
they
themselves
have
not
any
but
for
what
they
lay
up
in
their
Chests
?
The
Coach
which
our
fortunate
adventurers
expected
to
carry
them
to
Madrid
,
came
at
its
usual
time
to
Carmona
.
There
were
in
it
already
six
Persons
,
a
Gentleman
,
and
his
Lady
,
a
Priest
,
two
University-Scholars
,
and
a
Servant
belonging
to
the
Priest
,
a
young
Lad
about
fifteen
years
of
Age.
They
all
knew
,
that
there
were
two
persons
to
be
taken
in
at
Carmona
,
who
had
paid
somewhat
extraordinary
,
for
the
best
places
.
They
accordingly
resign'd
them
,
as
soon
as
they
perceiv'd
their
coming
towards
the
Coach
:
but
Garay
,
who
was
a
very
civil
and
obliging
person
,
would
needs
recommend
his
interest
in
the
place
to
the
Gentleman's
Lady
,
whom
he
seated
on
the
left
side
of
Rufina
,
and
sat
himself
in
the
fore-part
of
the
Coach
,
with
her
Husband
.
All
being
plac'd
to
their
content
,
they
left
Carmona
on
the
Munday
morning
,
it
being
in
September
,
when
most
Fruits
are
ripe
.
All
thought
it
a
great
happiness
,
that
they
had
met
so
good
Company
;
but
Rufina
and
Garay
had
another
secret
satisfaction
,
arising
from
the
thought
of
the
good
prize
that
had
brought
them
into
that
good
Company
.
The
Gentleman
was
a
Person
of
excellent
discourse
;
the
Priest
,
of
a
very
sociable
and
conversative
humour
,
and
the
two
young
Scholars
made
it
appear
,
that
they
had
not
mis-pent
their
time
at
the
University
,
every
one
being
desirous
to
make
the
best
discovery
he
could
of
his
abilities
.
The
Priest
took
occasion
to
tell
them
,
that
he
was
going
to
Court
,
to
get
a
Priviledge
,
to
put
two
little
pieces
of
his
into
the
Press
,
being
such
as
some
Friends
of
his
had
assur'd
him
he
should
oblige
the
World
in
the
publication
of
them
.
The
Gentleman
,
who
sate
next
him
,
was
a
person
acquainted
with
Letters
,
and
express'd
a
great
curiosity
to
know
what
they
might
treat
of
.
Doctor
Monsalvo
(
so
was
the
Priest
called
)
told
him
they
were
Books
of
Discourses
,
and
Divertisements
;
representing
to
him
that
things
of
that
kind
,
were
kindly
receiv'd
at
Court
:
that
one
of
them
was
entituled
,
The
Staple
of
Discourse
and
Complements
;
and
the
other
,
The
Flowers
of
Helicon
;
that
the
former
contained
twelve
Moral
Novels
,
with
an
intermixture
of
Verses
;
and
the
Flowers
of
Helicon
was
a
collection
of
Poems
written
by
him
,
during
his
Residence
at
the
University
of
Salamanca
.
He
told
them
withall
,
that
,
if
they
thought
it
not
tedious
,
he
would
entertain
them
with
somewhat
out
of
the
former
,
when
ever
they
should
be
at
leisure
to
give
him
attention
.
Rufina
,
who
was
a
great
lover
and
reader
of
such
Treatises
,
intreated
the
Doctor
,
if
it
were
no
trouble
to
him
,
to
read
one
of
his
Novels
,
promising
her self
,
from
the
assurance
she
had
of
his
excellent
parts
,
that
the
stile
and
conceptions
would
be
answerable
to
the
worthiness
of
the
Author
.
I
have
endeavour'd
,
all
I
could
,
Madam
,
says
the
Doctor
to
her
,
to
conform
my self
to
the
stile
now
us'd
at
Court
;
my
Prose
is
free
from
affectation
,
and
consequently
will
not
weary
the
Reader
,
nor
are
the
conceipts
so
flat
as
to
produce
the
same
effect
.
I
make
it
my
business
to
give
my
Writings
a
little
life
and
smartness
,
which
may
raise
in
the
Reader
an
earnestness
to
know
the
period
of
the
adventures
.
I
write
as
I
speak
,
because
I
see
Men
love
those
things
that
are
natural
,
better
than
those
which
smell
of
too
much
study
and
affectation
;
and
take
it
from
me
as
a
thing
very
certain
,
that
it
requires
a
certain
measure
of
confidence
for
any
Man
to
write
as
the
times
go
now
;
which
proceeds
hence
,
that
so
many
excellent
Wits
busie
themselves
in
writing
,
and
publish
things
as
admirable
as
ingenious
,
and
not
onely
Men
,
who
profess
Letters
,
but
also
some
Women
.
Among
the
latter
,
how
are
we
to
celebrate
the
ingenuity
of
Donna
Maria
de
Zaras
,
and
Soto
Mayor
,
who
hath
worthily
deserv'd
the
title
of
the
Sibyl
of
Madrid
,
as
also
the
reputation
she
hath
acquir'd
of
an
excellent
Wit
,
and
to
do
admirable
things
in
Poetry
,
having
lately
put
into
the
Press
a
piece
containing
ten
Novels
,
which
are
look'd
on
as
so
many
miracles
,
by
those
who
are
Judges
in
that
kind
of
writing
?
The
excellency
of
her
Prose
,
and
the
subtilty
of
the
designs
,
together
with
the
insinuating
intertexture
of
the
Verses
,
have
given
mate
to
the
best
Pens
of
Spain
.
Donna
Anna
Caro
de
Malien
,
a
Native
of
our
City
of
Sevil
,
comes
not
much
behind
her
,
and
may
be
allow'd
near
the
same
measure
of
praise
.
Her
sweet
and
harmonious
Verses
suspend
the
Spirits
,
and
charm
the
Ears
of
all
that
hear
them
,
as
hath
been
seen
,
by
those
publish'd
by
her
the
last
Carnaval
,
at
the
new
Palace
,
built
by
his
Majesty
,
near
the
Course
,
which
may
be
called
the
eighth
Wonder
of
the
World
,
since
she
speaks
of
it
,
with
an
eloquence
answerable
to
the
preparations
which
had
been
there
made
,
many
days
before
,
for
the
divertisement
of
their
Catholick
Majesties
.
The
Doctor
having
ended
this
discourse
,
he
took
out
his
Book
of
Novels
,
and
,
the
Company
having
compos'd
themselves
to
silence
and
attention
,
he
entertain'd
them
with
that
which
follows
.
THE
FIRST
NOVEL
.
All
Covet
,
all
Loose
.
VAlentia
,
one
of
the
most
eminent
Cities
of
Spain
,
the
Nurse
of
so
many
noble
Families
,
the
Centre
of
ingenious
Spirits
,
and
the
sacred
Receptacle
of
the
Bodies
of
divers
Saints
,
gave
Birth
unto
Don
Alexander
,
a
Person
of
noble
Extraction
,
Young
,
and
Master
of
all
those
excellent
Qualities
,
for
which
Men
are
either
lov'd
or
admir'd
.
Having
left
his
Country
about
twelve
years
before
in
the
company
of
an
Uncle
of
his
,
who
had
the
command
of
a
Troop
of
Horse
in
Flanders
,
he
behav'd
himself
with
so
much
gallantry
in
those
parts
,
that
he
was
in
a
short
time
advanc'd
to
be
Cornet
,
under
his
Uncle
,
who
dying
,
he
supply'd
his
place
,
and
so
continu'd
twelve
years
in
the
service
of
this
Catholick
Majesty
,
Philip
the
Third
,
against
the
revolted
Provinces
of
the
Low-countries
.
He
was
,
at
last
,
in
compensation
of
his
Services
,
honoured
with
the
Order
of
Saint
James
,
with
the
ordinary
allowances
belonging
thereto
.
During
that
part
of
the
year
,
which
makes
a
kind
of
cessation
of
Arms
in
those
colder
Countries
,
his
aboad
was
in
the
City
of
Antwerpe
,
where
,
by
certain
Letters
from
Valentia
,
he
receiv'd
the
news
of
his
Father's
death
,
which
made
him
,
being
the
eldest
,
heir
of
a
very
considerable
estate
.
He
might
indeed
now
have
lived
plentifully
on
his
own
,
and
pursu'd
his
pleasures
,
as
many
other
young
Cavaliers
did
,
who
place
all
the
felicity
of
this
Life
in
the
infamous
enjoyments
thereof
:
But
he
,
a
dutiful
Son
of
Honour
,
chose
rather
to
continue
the
exercises
of
War
,
and
serve
his
Country
,
than
by
a
sudden
exchange
of
employments
,
blast
his
reputation
,
and
incurr
the
reproach
of
a
person
impatient
of
hardship
,
and
touch'd
with
a
spice
of
effeminacy
.
This
consideration
discovers
him
to
be
much
more
stay'd
than
those
young
Gentlemen
,
who
prefer
whole
Skins
,
the
shameful
blandishments
of
Ease
,
and
the
warmth
of
their
own
Fires
,
before
the
honour
,
which
a
person
truly
deserving
that
name
should
endeavour
to
purchase
in
the
service
of
his
Prince
.
But
Don
Alexander
considering
withal
,
that
he
could
not
,
upon
this
news
of
his
Father's
death
,
avoid
taking
a
journey
to
Valentia
,
to
order
the
disposal
of
his
Estate
,
he
desired
leave
to
do
it
,
of
his
most
serene
Highness
the
Arch-Duke
Albert
,
who
,
finding
the
just
occasion
he
had
to
go
,
easily
condescended
,
proffering
him
,
at
his
return
,
what
advancement
he
could
reasonably
expect
:
which
oblig'd
him
to
make
the
more
earnest
promises
to
come
back
into
Flanders
,
contrary
to
the
presumptions
of
many
,
who
imagined
,
that
he
had
made
an
Exit
from
the
Military
Stage
,
thence
forward
to
follow
the
more
pleasant
divertisements
of
a
Civil
life
.
Being
come
to
Valentia
,
where
his
Relations
and
Friends
kindly
entertained
him
,
he
began
to
order
the
management
of
his
affairs
,
not
trifling
away
his
time
in
unprofitable
diversions
,
whereto
young
Men
are
but
too
much
addicted
.
For
though
he
were
a
Souldier
,
yet
was
he
no
lover
of
Gaming
,
a
disposition
for
which
he
was
much
to
be
commended
,
considering
his
Age
and
Quality
:
inasmuch
as
Gaming
occasions
a
thousand
misfortunes
,
and
unhappy
accidents
,
whereof
there
had
happened
not
a
few
at
Valentia
.
Nor
was
Don
Alexander
as
yet
any
way
inclin'd
to
Love
,
though
he
could
not
want
occasions
to
express
his
Courtship
,
and
how
far
he
had
studied
the
Mysteries
of
Love
and
Eloquence
,
since
what
added
much
to
the
Lustre
of
that
City
,
was
the
great
number
of
fair
Ladies
,
shining
in
it
like
so
many
stars
.
But
his
most
ordinary
employment
was
the
exercising
of
his
Horses
.
Of
these
he
had
four
excellent
ones
,
extreamly
well
manag'd
,
which
he
had
bought
in
Andalusia
,
and
on
which
he
rode
a
hunting
the
Bulls
,
according
to
the
custom
of
the
Country
,
shewing
himself
,
at
that
sport
,
more
dextrous
than
all
those
who
were
accounted
the
Bravos
of
the
City
.
'T
is
a
custom
in
Valentia
,
that
at
the
beginning
of
the
Spring
,
for
the
space
of
about
fifteen
days
together
,
most
of
the
families
of
the
City
go
about
the
Silk-husbandry
,
which
they
have
in
the
adjacent
Villages
.
One
day
,
Don
Alexander
rid
abroad
into
the
Country
,
through
that
delightful
Plain
which
is
near
a
Garden
not
far
from
Valentia
,
known
by
the
name
of
the
Monastery
of
our
Lady
of
Hope
,
and
having
spent
the
whole
afternoon
about
those
pleasant
Gardens
,
refreshing
himself
with
the
sweet
scent
of
the
flowers
of
the
Orenge-trees
,
whereof
there
is
good
store
thereabouts
,
(
the
Sun
being
so
low
that
it
seem'd
to
be
equally
divided
between
us
and
our
Antipodes
)
he
pass'd
by
a
Country
house
not
far
from
the
pleasant
River
of
Turia
,
where
he
heard
,
at
a
small
distance
,
one
playing
on
a
Lute
,
so
well
,
that
he
thought
he
had
not
heard
any
Musick
comparable
to
it
before
.
He
stopp'd
his
horse
,
imagining
the
person
playing
on
that
Instrument
so
excellently
might
also
sing
to
it
.
He
expected
a
while
with
much
impatience
;
but
the
Musician
putting
the
Instrument
into
several
different
Tunes
,
did
not
what
he
so
much
desired
,
which
was
,
to
hear
her
voice
.
In
the
mean
time
night
came
on
,
and
Don
Alexander
extremely
delighted
with
the
place
he
was
in
,
gave
his
horse
to
his
Lacquey
,
and
causing
him
to
remove
a
little
distance
off
,
he
staid
alone
,
under
the
green
Balcony
,
whence
the
Musick
came
,
to
find
out
who
made
it
.
But
he
had
not
waited
long
,
ere
he
could
perceive
,
by
the
light
of
the
Moon
,
that
it
was
a
Lady
,
who
being
got
into
that
Balcony
to
take
the
advantage
of
a
gentle
wind
then
blowing
,
began
afresh
her
delightful
Musick
on
the
Lute
,
whereto
she
join'd
that
of
an
admirable
voice
,
singing
an
Air
,
which
made
an
absolute
conquest
of
that
Heart
,
wherein
all
the
hardships
of
War
had
not
made
the
least
breach
.
Whence
we
may
deduce
this
Remark
,
That
Cupid
can
do
more
in
a
minute
,
than
Mars
,
in
a
Troy-siege
.
To
say
the
same
thing
again
in
other
words
,
The
excellency
of
the
Voice
,
and
the
transcendent
nimbleness
of
the
hand
,
the
compliance
and
competition
between
them
,
so
ravish'd
our
young
Gallant
,
that
he
wish'd
she
might
never
give
over
,
at
least
not
till
he
were
satiated
with
that
pleasure
.
But
the
Lady
laid
by
her
Instrument
,
and
leaning
her
breast
on
the
Balcony
,
though
't
were
night
,
made
a
shift
to
see
the
young
Gallant
,
whom
her
Musick
had
ti'd
so
long
by
the
ears
;
who
also
perceiving
her
,
would
needs
make
his
advantage
of
so
blest
an
opportunity
.
So
that
getting
as
near
her
as
he
could
,
he
broke
forth
into
this
Complement
:
How
infinitely
happy
must
that
absent
Gentleman
be
,
Madam
,
(
for
in
the
Verses
she
had
sung
,
she
bemoan'd
the
absence
of
a
certain
person
)
who
deserves
so
excellent
a
voice
to
bemoan
his
absence
.
I
should
be
extremely
glad
of
his
acquaintance
,
that
I
may
give
him
that
of
this
good
news
,
that
he
is
so
obligingly
bemoan'd
by
so
deserving
a
Lady
as
you
seem
to
be
.
The
Lady
wondred
to
find
her self
surpriz'd
,
but
recovering
out
of
her
astonishment
,
though
she
knew
not
the
person
who
had
spoken
to
her
,
she
gave
him
this
Answer
.
As
to
the
Song
you
heard
,
Sir
,
you
are
not
to
imagine
it
sung
out
of
any
tenderness
I
have
for
some
person
now
far
from
me
,
and
therefore
you
may
spare
your self
the
trouble
to
learn
who
it
may
be
,
and
consequently
to
tell
him
how
highly
he
is
in
my
favour
,
as
you
imagine
.
What
assurance
can
I
have
of
that
,
says
Alexander
,
knowing
,
by
what
I
have
heard
from
your
own
mouth
,
the
predominant
passion
of
your
soul
?
How
,
I
pray
,
Sir
,
may
you
be
concern'd
in
that
,
said
she
to
him
?
Very
much
,
replies
he
;
for
the
enchantment
of
your
voice
hath
been
so
powerful
over
him
who
hath
heard
it
,
that
it
is
not
without
reason
he
requires
assurances
of
what
he
asks
you
,
to
prevent
the
disquiet
,
which
he
must
otherwise
expect
.
She
could
not
forbear
laughing
at
this
discourse
of
Don
Alexander's
,
and
telling
him
withall
,
that
Women
do
prudently
,
when
they
are
flattered
,
not
to
believe
any
thing
that
Men
say
to
them
,
in
regard
they
never
speak
truth
,
representing
things
,
not
as
they
really
are
,
but
as
they
appear
to
their
beguil'd
imaginations
,
.
Wherein
,
I
pray
,
says
Alexander
,
do
you
think
,
Madam
,
that
I
have
told
you
any
thing
short
of
truth
?
Mistake
me
not
,
repli'd
she
,
I
do
not
charge
you
with
a
coming
short
,
but
going
much
beyond
it
,
for
you
are
so
prodigal
of
your
commendations
of
a
person
you
are
yet
very
little
acquainted
with
,
nay
have
not
so
much
as
well
view'd
,
that
,
you
must
either
laugh
at
my
simplicity
,
or
think
me
a
great
admirer
of
my self
,
if
I
should
credit
what
you
say
.
To
convince
you
of
either
your
errour
or
palpable
flattery
,
of
many
,
I
need
onely
give
you
this
one
instance
,
that
,
when
I
my self
,
and
others
whose
judgments
I
dare
trust
,
think
I
do
not
sing
tolerably
well
,
you
would
make
me
believe
,
that
my
voice
hath
rais'd
you
into
ecstasies
,
when
another
would
not
have
a
minute's
patience
to
hear
me
.
Nay
,
Madam
,
replies
he
,
take
heed
your
reproaches
rebound
not
upon
your self
,
disparage
not
your self
so
far
,
and
slight
not
Truth
so
much
as
to
call
her
by
any
other
name
than
her
own
;
you
have
an
admirable
voice
,
and
the
subject
of
the
words
you
sung
must
needs
be
such
,
since
it
is
not
to
be
imagin'd
you
sung
them
in
vain
.
To
make
them
perfect
,
there
needs
onely
the
mixture
of
a
little
jealousie
,
were
it
not
that
the
happy
man
,
upon
whose
account
those
words
were
made
,
knowing
your
worth
,
cannot
give
you
any
.
Upon
this
the
Lady
remov'd
from
the
place
where
she
was
,
that
she
might
more
commodiously
proceed
in
her
discourse
with
Don
Alexander
,
(
though
she
knew
him
not
)
for
she
imagin'd
he
could
not
talk
at
that
rate
without
some
ground
.
Which
made
her
say
to
him
,
If
you
make
any
comparison
between
that
enchantment
you
speak
of
,
and
the
suspicion
you
seem
to
have
,
I
can
assure
you
,
that
you
are
very
well
read
in
the
art
of
Flattery
,
and
therefore
I
beseech
you
,
attribute
not
a
melancholy
humour
I
am
subject
to
,
to
any
regret
occasion'd
by
the
absence
of
any
person
,
for
I
was
never
yet
troubled
with
any
such
thing
,
and
I
think
shall
not
as
long
as
I
live
.
I
would
give
all
I
am
worth
in
the
world
,
says
he
,
conditionally
what
you
say
were
true
.
Would
your
hazard
be
very
great
in
that
,
replied
she
?
Very
little
,
said
he
,
considering
the
account
upon
which
I
proffer
it
;
but
I
should
say
no
less
were
I
possess'd
of
all
the
world
,
and
think
it
well
bestow'd
.
I
am
extremely
happy
,
answers
the
Lady
,
to
hear
things
so
highly
spoken
to
my
advantage
;
but
I
should
be
transcendently
vain
,
to
imagine
I
should
raise
love
in
any
person
before
I
am
seen
by
him
:
nay
,
I
dare
promise
you
,
that
if
you
had
seen
my
face
,
you
would
not
haply
be
so
resolute
.
My
hearing
cannot
deceive
me
,
replies
he
,
and
I
presume
,
that
the
person
,
who
is
so
excellent
to
satisfie
that
part
,
may
be
the
like
in
other
things
,
which
the
envious
night
permits
me
not
a
view
of
at
present
.
And
when
you
consider
,
that
in
the
discourse
I
have
had
with
you
,
I
have
not
talk'd
of
beams
,
nor
splendor
,
nor
us'd
those
expressions
,
which
they
seem
to
have
studied
;
who
with
affected
Hyperboles
,
make
it
their
business
to
flatter
and
abuse
Ladies
,
you
should
in
some
measure
assure
your self
,
that
I
begin
to
conceive
an
unfeigned
passion
for
you
.
Well
,
to
humour
you
a
little
,
says
she
,
I
have
some
inclination
to
believe
you
,
which
will
be
much
confirm'd
,
if
you
tell
me
who
you
are
.
I
have
a
desire
,
said
he
to
her
,
first
to
deserve
it
by
my
services
,
that
,
in
case
there
may
be
any
thing
wanting
in
me
,
as
to
Quality
,
those
I
hope
to
render
you
may
supply
the
defect
.
Nay
then
I
am
satisfi'd
,
said
she
,
that
you
are
a
person
of
Quality
,
when
you
have
such
a
distrust
of
your self
.
Pardon
me
that
I
am
forc'd
to
leave
you
,
for
I
hear
my self
call'd
to
receive
some
company
newly
come
into
the
house
,
and
if
I
should
not
immediately
be
gone
,
some
would
come
and
find
me
here
.
Do
me
the
favour
then
,
says
Alexander
,
to
give
me
leave
to
wait
on
you
here
to
morrow
at
this
time
.
I
know
not
whether
it
may
be
in
my
power
,
said
she
to
him
,
however
do
you
not
fail
to
come
hither
;
and
though
something
may
prevent
my
giving
you
the
meeting
,
yet
shall
I
think
my self
very
much
oblig'd
to
you
.
I
shall
infallibly
expect
you
,
replies
the
enamour'd
Gallant
,
more
fix'd
in
my
resolution
than
the
Stars
,
you
see
,
are
in
the
firmament
.
Your
last
words
,
repli'd
she
,
if
I
cannot-sleep
to
night
,
will
find
my
thoughts
a
diversion
to
deceive
the
dull
season
;
but
when
you
come
next
,
I
beseech
you
,
be
not
so
liberal
of
your
Hyperboles
,
me-thinks
they
grate
the
ear
,
and
I
think
all
that
use
them
great
Flatterers
,
and
consequently
no
great
honourers
of
Truth
,
especially
considering
how
meanly
I
deserve
.
Having
said
thus
,
and
given
him
a
very
obliging
salute
,
she
got
out
of
the
Balcony
,
leaving
Alexander
in
a
little
disturbance
,
to
see
that
she
left
him
so
soon
:
for
he
was
extremely
taken
as
well
with
the
excellency
of
her
voice
,
as
that
of
her
discourse
.
He
had
a
great
desire
to
know
who
she
was
,
and
she
had
the
same
curiosity
concerning
him
,
for
she
immediately
commanded
a
servant
to
follow
him
,
and
not
to
return
till
he
had
discover'd
who
he
was
:
which
he
did
without
much
trouble
,
inasmuch
as
not
far
thence
,
he
saw
him
get
up
on
horse-back
,
and
knew
him
,
and
presently
return'd
with
the
news
to
his
Mistris
,
who
was
over-joy'd
to
hear
it
was
Don
Alexander
,
of
whom
she
had
heard
such
noble
things
,
and
seen
behave
himself
so
galantly
at
the
Hunting
of
the
Bulls
.
Don
Alexander
,
being
come
home
,
enquir'd
of
a
Neighbour
of
his
,
who
that
Lady
might
be
to
whom
he
had
spoken
;
and
describing
to
him
the
place
where
she
Liv'd
,
he
understood
her
name
was
Donna
Isabella
,
(
the
Sir-name
,
for
some
reason
,
I
shall
forbear
)
a
Lady
of
great
repute
in
the
City
,
and
of
extraordinary
endowments
,
whose
understanding
was
equal
to
her
beauty
,
Daughter
to
one
Don
Berenguel
Antonio
,
a
person
of
great
fame
for
his
long
services
in
the
Wars
,
who
having
quitted
the
Military
life
,
and
Married
,
well
advanc'd
in
years
,
had
left
that
fair
Daughter
,
who
was
then
Fatherless
and
Motherless
,
with
a
very
inconsiderable
fortune
;
in
regard
her
Father's
estate
consisted
most
in
Pensions
bestow'd
on
him
by
King
Philip
the
Second
,
in
requital
of
his
Services
.
This
Lady
liv'd
with
an
Aunt
of
hers
,
an
ancient
Gentlewoman
,
who
for
the
most
part
kept
her
Bed
,
and
was
then
retir'd
to
that
Country-house
,
to
look
after
her
Silk-husbandry
.
Thus
was
Alexander
fully
inform'd
of
all
he
desir'd
to
know
,
though
he
had
already
had
a
particular
accompt
of
the
perfections
which
made
the
City
of
Valentia
full
of
discourses
of
her
Beauty
and
Wit
,
which
was
such
that
she
had
the
reputation
of
writing
good
Verses
,
a
quality
very
recommendable
in
a
person
of
her
Sex
and
Quality
.
Alexander
had
never
seen
her
,
and
was
very
desirous
to
do
it
,
even
before
he
had
seen
her
;
and
understanding
she
Liv'd
at
that
Country-house
,
his
desire
was
the
more
enflam'd
:
which
made
him
Ride
abroad
the
oftner
,
hoping
to
be
favour'd
with
such
another
opportunity
as
he
had
met
with
before
.
But
he
had
not
that
happiness
a
good
while
,
her
Aunt
being
so
sick
,
that
she
could
not
stir
out
of
the
room
where
she
lay
.
About
fifteen
days
afterwards
,
the
old
Gentlewoman
being
a
little
recover'd
,
she
had
the
liberty
to
go
and
see
the
Profession
of
a
Nun
,
at
the
Royal
Monastery
of
Zaida
,
which
was
not
far
from
the
Country-house
:
At
which
Ceremony
all
the
Gallantry
of
Valentia
,
of
both
Sexes
,
was
present
.
Donna
Isabella
came
thither
also
,
but
having
her
face
cover'd
with
her
Mantle
,
and
attended
onely
by
one
of
her
Women
,
she
got
into
a
little
obscure
Chappel
.
Alexander
,
on
the
other
side
,
who
fail'd
not
to
be
there
,
hoping
to
meet
her
,
on
whom
he
had
fasten'd
his
affections
,
wondred
very
much
that
he
found
her
not
among
the
other
Ladies
;
and
suspecting
she
might
be
one
of
those
who
were
retir'd
into
that
Chappel
,
and
had
their
faces
cover'd
with
their
Mantles
,
he
went
in
to
them
,
with
two
other
friends
,
to
whom
he
said
,
(
presuming
it
was
she
as
soon
as
he
saw
her
)
The
new-made
Nun
is
not
much
oblig'd
to
these
Ladies
,
who
retire
to
a
place
,
whence
they
cannot
see
those
Ceremonies
,
which
all
the
rest
are
so
desirous
to
do
:
but
I
attribute
this
indifference
to
the
little
inclination
they
have
to
become
Nuns
.
Isabella
was
not
a
little
pleas'd
to
see
Alexander
,
whom
she
had
before
observ'd
in
the
Church
,
and
wish'd
not
so
well
attended
as
he
then
was
.
However
,
changing
her
Voice
,
she
return'd
him
this
answer
.
Being
not
invited
to
this
Feast
,
we
cannot
expect
the
same
welcome
as
those
that
are
:
And
for
the
little
curiosity
we
discover
to
see
the
Ceremonies
used
,
at
the
reception
of
a
Nun
,
having
seen
the
like
several
times
before
,
we
do
not
much
mind
this
,
in
regard
the
seeing
of
it
but
once
is
enough
to
satisfie
a
person
inclinable
to
be
a
Nun.
Nay
then
,
I
see
,
says
one
of
Alexander's
friends
,
that
you
are
not
of
their
number
who
have
a
desire
to
enter
into
that
Profession
.
I
have
no
Answer
to
make
you
as
to
that
,
reply'd
she
,
save
that
a
person
cannot
enter
into
this
state
of
Life
,
unless
he
be
thereto
called
by
God
,
a
favour
I
do
not
yet
find
in
my self
that
she
hath
done
me
.
We
may
then
,
replies
Alexander
,
infer
from
this
discourse
of
yours
,
that
you
are
not
Married
,
but
desirous
to
be
so
.
What
my
inclinations
are
,
as
to
Marriage
,
said
she
,
I
am
not
oblig'd
to
give
you
any
accompt
,
who
are
very
far
from
being
related
to
me
so
nearly
,
as
that
I
should
acquaint
you
with
my
resolution
in
a
business
of
that
concernment
.
However
,
you
may
satisfie
us
so
far
,
Madam
,
says
Alexander
,
as
to
let
us
know
,
which
condition
of
Life
you
would
rather
choose
.
Which
I
pray
,
Sir
,
would
you
advise
me
to
,
said
she
to
him
?
That
of
Matrimony
,
says
Alexander
.
What
,
whether
I
have
the
accommodations
requisite
to
enter
into
that
state
,
or
not
?
reply'd
she
.
If
all
be
wanting
,
says
he
to
her
,
you
must
endeavour
to
forget
your self
,
for
she
who
is
not
born
to
be
a
Nun
,
and
cannot
be
Married
,
must
remain
Newter
,
as
being
uncapable
of
both
.
I
could
very
well
follow
that
advice
,
said
she
.
But
if
you
please
,
Madam
,
says
Alexander
,
to
discover
,
what
your
Mantle
permits
us
not
to
see
,
I
will
give
you
a
better
advice
.
Coming
up
nearer
her
,
as
if
he
were
confident
of
that
favour
,
she
met
his
desires
,
and
purposely
gave
him
a
full
view
of
one
of
her
fair
Eyes
,
which
Alexander's
two
friends
also
took
notice
of
.
If
the
advice
you
intend
to
give
me
,
said
she
,
should
prove
to
my
disadvantage
,
't
were
better
,
I
should
still
continue
undiscover'd
,
though
to
hear
your
advice
,
I
should
not
think
it
much
to
answer
your
expectation
.
That
can
do
you
no
prejudice
,
says
Alexander
to
her
,
in
regard
we
have
observ'd
some
things
which
assure
us
,
that
you
ought
to
choose
the
state
of
Matrimony
,
in
which
you
would
make
the
person
you
should
think
worthy
your
enjoyments
,
the
happiest
Man
in
the
world
:
Nay
,
ere
I
know
any
more
of
you
than
I
do
already
,
I
wish
my self
the
person
,
for
whom
that
felicity
is
reserv'd
.
His
two
friends
affirm'd
the
same
thing
on
their
own
behalf
,
being
extreamly
satisfy'd
with
her
Wit
,
and
the
little
they
had
seen
of
her
Face
,
Can
there
be
any
happiness
comparable
to
mine
,
said
she
,
who
have
three
such
handsome
Persons
at
my
Devotion
,
of
whom
it
is
in
my
power
to
make
one
the
happiest
Man
in
the
World
?
Well
,
Gentlemen
,
since
you
cannot
expect
I
should
make
a
sudden
choice
in
a
business
of
this
concern
,
you
will
give
me
leave
to
examine
your
several
perfections
,
that
I
may
pitch
upon
him
,
who
,
in
my
judgement
,
may
pretend
to
most
.
Upon
that
every
one
began
to
celebrate
his
own
worth
,
and
undervalue
his
Competitors
.
They
pass'd
away
some
time
in
that
pleasant
discourse
,
without
any
offence
taken
,
though
the
place
they
were
in
should
have
minded
them
,
that
some
other
Conversation
would
have
been
more
suitable
:
But
now
a-days
,
young
people
are
grown
to
that
height
of
Profaneness
,
that
they
make
little
difference
between
Churches
and
Exchanges
.
But
the
Lady
having
had
the
patience
to
hear
what
every
one
had
to
say
on
his
own
behalf
,
she
answer'd
them
altogether
,
thus
;
I
am
fully
inform'd
of
the
qualities
,
and
deserts
of
Persons
every
way
so
excellent
;
I
am
now
to
advise
with
my
Pillow
,
to
know
which
of
the
three
I
should
prefer
,
though
to
tell
you
the
truth
,
I
have
in
a
manner
resolv'd
upon
my
choice
already
,
finding
in
my self
a
stronger
inclination
for
one
of
the
three
than
for
either
of
the
other
two
.
The
person
I
mean
hath
many
excellent
qualities
,
but
the
particular
inducement
I
have
to
think
him
worthy
my
approbation
,
is
,
that
I
know
him
to
be
a
very
great
Wit
;
all
I
have
to
object
against
him
,
is
,
that
he
fears
I
am
already
engag'd
to
some
other
,
whence
I
infer
he
is
jealous
,
and
consequently
of
an
ill
nature
.
Alexander
immediately
apprehended
she
spoke
of
him
,
reflecting
on
what
had
past
in
their
discourse
the
first
time
he
had
seen
her
.
The
time
being
come
for
people
to
go
out
of
the
Church
,
the
three
Lovers
out-vy'd
one
the
other
to
find
out
passionate
complements
to
take
leave
of
the
Lady
,
Alexander
purpofely
staying
to
be
the
last
,
onely
to
whisper
these
words
to
her
.
'T
is
too
great
a
Tyranny
,
Madam
,
towards
a
Servant
so
passionately
yours
,
in
so
long
time
not
to
vouchsafe
him
a
full
sight
of
you
:
I
beseech
you
,
be
more
kind
to
him
hereafter
,
least
your
further
disdain
may
have
some
fatal
effects
on
him
.
The
indisposition
of
an
Aunt
,
reply'd
she
,
whom
I
must
constantly
attend
,
I
hope
,
you
will
think
an
allowable
excuse
;
and
what
I
tell
you
is
much
more
true
,
than
the
expressions
you
make
to
me
of
your
Love
.
But
I
will
endeavour
your
satisfaction
,
and
put
a
period
to
your
complaints
,
when
,
possibly
,
you
least
expect
it
.
Alexander
had
not
the
time
to
make
her
any
Answer
,
and
so
he
parted
from
her
,
leaving
her
deeply
in
Love
,
and
extreamly
desirous
to
discourse
with
him
more
at
leisure
.
Some
few
days
after
,
Fortune
favour'd
her
with
an
opportunity
to
her
own
wishes
,
at
the
same
Balcony
where
he
had
spoken
to
her
the
first
time
.
As
soon
as
she
perceiv'd
Alexander
,
she
came
down
,
and
they
discours'd
a
long
time
together
without
any
interruption
.
The
effect
of
this
interview
and
long
conference
,
upon
Alexander
,
was
,
that
his
Love
,
before
little
better
than
kindled
,
now
broke
forth
into
a
flame
.
Isabella
came
not
much
behind
him
,
yet
had
that
command
of
her
passion
,
as
not
to
grant
him
the
greatest
kindness
that
can
happen
between
persons
of
different
Sexes
,
though
it
were
out
of
this
onely
reflection
,
that
to
have
done
it
,
at
the
first
interview
,
would
have
argu'd
such
a
compliance
and
easiness
of
Nature
,
as
no
Violence
of
affection
should
ever
be
able
to
excuse
.
Alexander
being
now
fully
satisfy'd
that
Isabella
was
both
a
great
Wit
,
and
a
great
Beauty
,
writ
several
Love-letters
to
her
,
and
the
better
to
express
his
passion
,
he
also
sent
her
some
Verses
of
his
own
composure
.
Isabella
knew
,
that
Alexander
,
among
so
many
other
qualities
he
had
acquir'd
,
was
also
skilful
in
Poetry
,
and
consequently
was
the
more
surpris'd
and
satisfy'd
therewith
.
Some
of
his
Missives
she
very
modestly
answered
in
these
tearms
.
THE
LETTER
.
THose
Commendations
which
transcend
the
merit
of
the
Person
on
whom
they
are
bestow'd
,
do
rather
injure
,
than
oblige
,
and
disparage
the
judgement
of
the
Giver
,
in
as
much
as
the
Receiver
,
thinking
her self
unworthy
the
honour
,
justly
takes
the
Elogy
for
a
Satyr
.
I
am
not
so
much
a
Stranger
to
my self
,
but
that
I
can
distinguish
between
Flattery
and
Truth
;
nor
am
I
so
poorly
conceited
of
my self
,
but
that
I
think
I
deserve
somewhat
of
the
praises
you
give
me
.
I
shall
think
it
an
obligation
,
if
you
abate
some
part
of
what
you
tell
me
,
and
find
out
a
mean
between
excessive
praise
and
contempt
,
for
the
former
my
own
imperfections
advise
me
to
look
on
as
an
abuse
.
I
have
no
great
experience
of
your
disposition
,
and
therefore
think
it
not
strange
if
I
give
not
the
credit
you
expect
to
your
Poetry
,
because
it
is
the
Language
of
Fiction
;
nor
yet
to
your
Prose
,
because
it
proceeds
from
the
same
Author
,
who
,
't
is
very
likely
hath
read
Romances
.
Whether
they
were
the
dictates
of
a
sincere
Affection
,
or
an
obliging
Complement
,
it
is
onely
in
the
power
of
Time
to
discover
,
and
with
all
to
assure
me
,
whether
I
am
to
acknowledge
your
civilities
,
or
resent
the
injury
you
have
done
me
.
The
fair
Isabella
found
out
an
expedient
to
convey
this
Letter
into
the
hands
of
Don
Alexander
,
her
newly
caught
Gallant
,
who
,
desirous
to
set
himself
right
in
the
opinion
of
his
Mistress
,
and
assure
her
of
the
sluency
of
his
style
in
things
of
this
kind
,
caus'd
the
Messenger
to
stay
,
and
take
along
with
him
this
Answer
.
THE
LETTER
.
I
See
then
,
Madam
,
so
that
you
procure
your
own
satisfaction
,
you
care
not
what
inconveniences
I
may
run
into
;
since
that
to
be
more
moderate
in
your
praises
(
as
you
seem
to
desire
)
cannot
be
without
so
much
the
greater
prejudice
to
my
reputation
,
in
that
I
think
my self
far
short
of
transcendency
,
in
that
particular
,
and
I
am
forc'd
to
bring
in
the
excess
of
my
Love
,
to
supply
the
defects
of
my
Poetry
.
That
I
may
therefore
be
no
more
guilty
of
such
a
crime
,
I
will
henceforth
express
my self
in
Prose
,
and
in
some
measure
do
what
you
command
me
in
your
Letter
.
You
would
find
it
no
great
difficulty
to
believe
me
,
if
you
knew
what
I
feel
;
nay
though
out
of
modesty
you
pretend
to
be
ignorant
of
it
,
I
defie
you
to
do
it
,
unless
withal
you
resolve
never
to
consult
your
Glass
any
more
.
Well
,
Madam
,
it
may
be
the
time
of
your
conversion
is
not
yet
come
,
when
it
shall
,
your
eyes
will
be
opened
,
and
you
shall
find
,
that
,
of
all
the
hearts
,
subdu'd
by
the
charms
of
your
Beauty
,
mine
may
haply
be
the
least
,
but
withal
the
most
passionate
captive
.
Time
,
which
gives
all
things
their
birth
,
perfection
,
and
period
,
shall
be
the
Touchstone
,
to
try
whether
this
be
Truth
or
Fiction
;
nay
I
leave
it
to
the
same
old
Gentleman
to
assure
you
of
a
thing
,
you
yet
pretend
to
be
ignorant
of
,
which
is
,
that
,
while
I
live
,
you
shall
be
sole
Sovereign
Mistress
and
Directress
of
my
Inclinations
.
And
then
haply
good
nature
,
gratitude
,
and
generosity
will
rather
advise
you
to
acknowledgements
of
the
love
I
bear
you
,
than
a
resentment
of
the
injuries
you
charge
me
withal
.
This
Letter
gave
Isabella
that
satisfaction
concerning
her
new
Gallant
,
which
she
expected
.
The
frequent
visits
were
continu'd
of
Alexander's
side
,
and
the
Epistolary
correspondence
on
both
sides
:
so
that
the
inclinations
they
had
one
to
another
were
,
by
these
degrees
,
heightned
into
a
noble
flame
of
mutual
love
.
His
Mistress
commanded
him
above
all
things
to
keep
his
pretensions
to
her
very
secret
,
which
he
inviolably
promis'd
to
do
.
Nay
she
was
so
scrupulous
as
to
that
particular
,
that
if
in
the
Church
,
or
some
other
publick
place
,
her
Gallant
did
so
much
as
cast
his
Eye
on
her
,
in
the
company
of
some
friend
,
she
immediately
imagin'd
,
that
he
acquainted
him
with
his
passion
;
and
,
as
if
she
had
heard
all
their
discourse
,
she
fail'd
not
to
send
him
a
Letter
concerning
it
,
if
she
could
not
see
him
time
enough
,
that
he
might
receive
her
reproaches
himself
.
Alexander
clear'd
himself
the
best
he
could
,
still
assuring
her
of
the
contrary
;
and
enflam'd
with
love
and
indignation
,
all
he
could
do
was
to
dispel
that
diffidence
,
which
troubled
him
extremely
.
But
the
same
Love
,
which
is
wont
to
reconcile
the
lesser
differences
and
dissatisfactions
that
happen
between
Lovers
,
helps
them
also
out
of
the
greatest
and
most
difficult
.
'T
was
Alexander's
design
to
marry
this
Lady
,
though
her
fortunes
were
very
low
:
but
he
delay'd
the
doing
of
it
,
till
he
had
effected
a
business
he
was
then
engag'd
to
prosecute
.
His
Uncle
and
himself
had
done
the
King
very
considerable
services
in
Flanders
,
for
many
years
together
,
and
he
was
then
making
his
applications
to
his
Majesty
for
some
Command
in
compensation
thereof
.
And
the
obstructions
and
delays
he
met
with
in
that
affair
contributed
more
to
his
after-happiness
,
than
the
expedition
could
have
done
,
as
will
appear
anon
.
Isabella
had
taken
order
that
he
should
not
be
seen
in
the
street
where
she
liv'd
,
much
less
look
up
to
her
window
to
be
seen
by
her
,
and
it
was
punctually
observ'd
by
Alexander
,
who
was
not
known
to
have
given
her
a
meeting
any
where
.
But
she
her self
was
the
first
forgot
what
she
had
enjoin'd
;
it
happen'd
thus
.
During
the
time
of
the
Carnaval
,
which
,
in
Valentia
,
is
celebrated
with
Mascarades
,
Balls
,
Tiltings
and
Disguizes
,
Alexander
had
in
some
of
these
met
with
his
Mistress
,
yet
without
discovery
of
more
than
ordinary
kindness
between
them
,
though
they
had
talk'd
,
and
danc'd
together
.
One
evening
,
after
the
Ball
,
there
was
to
be
a
meeting
of
certain
Ladies
,
at
the
house
of
a
Friend
of
Isabella's
,
to
which
she
with
some
others
had
been
invited
.
Alexander
and
some
other
friends
of
his
were
to
be
there
,
not
in
order
to
any
Ball
,
but
onely
to
discourse
.
Isabella
came
there
betimes
before
any
of
the
rest
,
and
soon
after
her
a
Woman
,
very
sumptuously
attir'd
,
attended
by
two
Gentlemen-Ushers
of
her
own
retinue
,
whom
her
mother
had
ordered
to
wait
on
her
to
that
Neighbour's
house
,
who
was
very
much
her
friend
.
Alexander
coming
into
the
Room
,
was
very
kindly
receiv'd
by
the
Ladies
then
present
,
whom
he
endeavour'd
to
entertain
the
most
lovingly
he
could
,
till
the
rest
of
the
Company
were
come
in
.
The
Lady
who
came
in
last
rise
from
her
seat
to
go
and
look
upon
a
piece
of
Tapistry
,
that
was
in
the
room
,
wherein
there
were
represented
lighted
Torches
;
the
admiration
she
express'd
at
the
excellency
of
the
workmanship
,
oblig'd
Alexander
to
come
also
to
see
it
.
There
was
pen
,
ink
and
paper
upon
the
Table
;
Laodamia
(
so
was
the
Lady
call'd
)
took
the
pen
in
her
hand
,
and
drew
several
stroaks
upon
the
paper
;
Alexander
took
occasion
to
commend
all
she
did
with
such
high
complements
,
that
his
Mistress
,
who
was
already
possess'd
with
a
jealousie
,
to
see
him
so
near
her
,
was
almost
ready
to
burst
with
indignation
to
hear
them
.
He
,
minding
onely
his
own
diversion
in
all
he
did
,
took
no
notice
of
it
;
nay
on
the
contrary
,
being
acquainted
with
Laodamia
,
through
her
Brother's
means
,
whom
he
often
visited
,
and
a
person
of
much
freedom
in
his
behaviour
,
he
continu'd
his
gamesome
humour
,
and
snatch'd
out
of
her
hand
a
pen
she
was
making
to
write
withal
.
After
which
,
having
dash'd
a
little
ink
upon
her
hand
,
he
jestingly
told
her
,
that
the
blackness
of
the
ink
never
appear'd
less
than
it
did
then
.
She
pretending
to
be
displeas'd
at
that
freedom
,
gave
him
a
clap
on
the
shoulder
with
her
hand
,
to
get
off
the
ink
;
but
perceiving
he
laugh'd
at
the
revenge
she
had
taken
,
she
gave
him
another
harder
than
the
former
.
Isabella
,
who
minded
their
jeasting
more
than
what
was
said
to
her
by
the
Mistress
of
the
house
,
(
with
whom
she
was
then
discoursing
)
starts
like
a
fury
from
her
seat
,
and
not
considering
what
she
was
doing
,
gave
Alexander
such
a
blow
over
the
face
,
that
his
nose
bled
.
The
poor
man
was
extremely
startled
at
it
,
and
all
he
could
do
was
to
take
a
handkerchief
out
of
his
pocket
,
to
receive
the
bloud
;
telling
his
Mistress
,
very
coldly
,
Well
,
Madam
,
you
see
,
I
have
kept
the
secret
you
committed
to
my
trust
;
you
have
first
reveal'd
it
,
and
transgress'd
the
Law
you
had
made
your self
.
Concluding
this
reproach
with
a
low
Congy
,
he
quitted
the
Room
,
and
went
home
.
Isabella
had
no
sooner
given
the
blow
,
but
she
was
infinitely
troubled
at
it
,
not
so
much
out
of
the
respect
she
bore
to
the
Mistress
of
the
house
,
who
was
her
intimate
friend
,
as
for
her
,
who
had
occasion'd
her
jealousie
.
In
this
Interval
,
her
Sisters
,
upon
whose
accompt
this
meeting
had
been
appointed
,
coming
into
the
house
,
Isabella
had
the
opportunity
to
retire
with
her
friends
into
another
room
.
Being
got
together
,
onely
they
two
,
My
dearest
Isabella
,
says
her
friend
to
her
,
what
do
you
think
of
?
How
are
you
grown
another
person
than
what
I
have
ever
known
you
?
I
have
hitherto
admir'd
your
modesty
and
reserv'dness
;
how
you
should
now
be
guilty
of
such
a
miscarriage
in
Behaviour
,
is
the
matter
of
my
astonishment
.
The
action
you
have
done
,
assures
me
,
without
your
speaking
,
what
,
in
many
words
,
you
should
hardly
have
persuaded
me
to
.
I
was
ignorant
of
this
Affection
of
yours
,
because
you
ever
kept
it
secret
;
and
since
I
know
it
by
this
discovery
,
I
am
more
oblig'd
to
your
Jealousie
,
than
your
Friendship
.
Alexander
is
a
person
of
worth
and
quality
;
I
am
very
glad
he
is
your
Servant
.
You
may
hence-forward
publickly
own
him
,
for
it
is
to
no
purpose
to
dissemble
.
Isabella
was
at
such
a
loss
,
that
she
knew
not
what
to
answer
:
but
having
a
little
recover'd
her self
,
I
must
acknowledge
,
my
dearest
Acquaintance
,
repli'd
she
,
since
this
eruption
of
my
jealousie
and
indignation
hath
betrai'd
me
,
that
Alexander
is
my
humble
Servant
;
my
inconsiderate
passion
,
hath
,
to
my
shame
,
discover'd
what
I
kept
not
onely
from
your
knowledge
,
but
that
of
all
others
.
I
must
acknowledge
,
I
say
,
that
Alexander
serves
me
with
a
violent
passion
,
which
yet
exceeds
not
the
affection
I
have
for
him
.
I
never
saw
him
so
indifferent
,
as
he
discover'd
himself
in
this
last
action
;
his
familiarity
with
Laodamia
touch'd
me
to
the
quick
.
That
short
fury
,
which
we
commonly
call
jealousie
,
forc'd
me
to
that
extravagant
discovery
of
my
love
.
Since
what
is
past
cannot
be
re-call'd
,
says
her
Friend
to
her
,
let
us
find
out
some
remedy
to
alleviate
the
inconvenience
,
for
it
is
not
fit
we
should
be
depriv'd
of
Alexander's
good
company
,
nor
he
of
the
pleasure
of
this
meeting
.
Besides
,
we
should
not
give
Laodamia
the
time
to
make
any
reflection
on
this
accident
,
or
conceive
apprehensions
which
would
be
disadvantageous
to
you
.
What
is
to
be
done
in
this
conjuncture
,
repli'd
the
jealous
Lady
?
The
onely
way
I
can
think
of
,
says
her
friend
,
is
,
immediately
to
write
to
him
.
She
follow'd
her
advice
,
and
sent
him
these
Lines
.
THE
LETTER
.
JEalousies
,
when
they
are
really
the
effects
of
Love
,
though
express'd
with
some
harshness
,
are
rather
to
be
accounted
favours
than
affronts
,
by
a
Lover
,
whose
soul
exhales
a
sincere
passion
towards
his
Mistress
.
The
injury
I
have
done
my self
in
wounding
my
reserv'dness
,
is
greater
than
the
violence
you
will
do
your self
in
passing
by
what
is
now
past
.
It
much
concerns
my
reputation
,
that
you
immediately
return
to
the
Meeting
.
But
if
you
persist
in
your
resentment
,
you
will
have
further
occasion
,
if
the
loss
of
my
favour
may
give
you
any
.
A
Messenger
was
immediately
sent
with
this
Letter
to
Alexander
,
who
express'd
much
gladness
at
the
receipt
of
it
,
and
,
without
any
recollection
,
obey'd
his
Mistress
,
as
being
satisfi'd
in
mind
,
that
nothing
discovers
a
real
passion
more
than
jealousie
.
He
comes
very
gaily
into
the
room
where
the
Ladies
were
,
which
Laodamia
perceiving
was
not
a
little
troubled
,
for
she
doubted
not
of
his
being
in
love
with
Isabella
,
though
she
thought
so
well
of
him
as
to
wish
he
had
rather
address'd
his
affections
to
her self
.
Alexander
,
finding
himself
in
the
presence
of
Isabella
,
thought
it
not
fit
to
speak
to
any
other
,
ere
he
had
first
assur'd
her
of
his
compliance
with
her
desires
.
Approaching
her
with
a
graceful
smile
,
he
made
her
this
complement
.
I
have
consider'd
this
room
with
as
much
respect
as
if
it
had
been
a
Temple
,
and
your
person
no
less
,
since
it
not
onely
kept
me
from
profaning
the
one
,
and
offering
any
violence
to
the
other
,
but
also
from
revenging
my self
by
that
kind
of
Duel
,
which
the
Law
permits
between
Gallants
and
their
Mistresses
.
Isabella
repli'd
,
Being
so
much
,
as
I
am
,
a
Servant
to
Madam
Laodamia
,
I
have
taken
upon
my
account
the
affront
you
have
done
her
,
when
she
would
have
shewn
you
a
kindness
,
never
thinking
of
any
Law
that
permits
a
man
to
revenge
himself
of
a
Lady
by
way
of
Duelling
.
Laodamia
,
knowing
that
that
indiscreet
action
of
Isabella's
proceeded
meerly
from
her
jealousie
,
would
not
be
engag'd
in
her
excuse
,
so
that
she
very
confidently
made
answer
thus
.
There
was
never
so
great
a
familiarity
between
us
,
Madam
,
as
might
oblige
you
to
take
my
part
with
so
much
passion
,
in
an
occasion
wherein
I
should
not
have
wanted
confidence
to
revenge
my self
:
but
not
knowing
any
thing
that
should
oblige
me
to
jealousie
,
and
thinking
not
the
affront
done
to
me
so
great
as
you
would
persuade
me
it
were
,
my
precipitation
was
not
accordingly
so
great
as
yours
.
I
am
very
glad
you
make
me
the
riddle
of
your
interpretations
;
let
them
be
thought
such
by
whom
you
please
,
but
for
my
part
,
I
have
already
given
them
a
more
easie
solution
,
such
as
none
in
the
company
can
be
ignorant
of
.
Isabella
not
a
little
mov'd
at
the
freedom
of
that
discourse
,
would
have
repli'd
;
but
the
Mistress
of
the
house
unwilling
the
difference
should
go
any
further
,
interrupted
them
,
and
oblig'd
them
to
sit
down
,
for
several
other
Ladies
were
coming
into
the
room
.
Alexander
was
,
that
night
,
not
onely
very
sumptuous
in
his
habiliments
,
but
also
full
of
excellent
discourses
,
insomuch
that
there
were
few
Ladies
in
the
company
,
who
were
not
much
taken
with
him
,
among
whom
Laodamia
was
the
most
concern'd
of
any
.
Her
thoughts
were
full
of
what
had
hapned
between
her
and
Isabella
,
and
shew
was
now
resolv'd
to
use
all
the
artifices
she
could
,
to
get
away
that
Gallant
from
her
:
wherein
at
last
she
had
her
desire
,
as
shall
be
seen
anon
.
All
the
favours
which
Alexander
receiv'd
of
his
Mistress
,
were
done
by
her
with
extraordinary
demonstrations
of
affection
,
for
indeed
the
Lady
had
a
greater
kindness
for
him
than
any
other
,
though
at
that
very
time
she
lov'd
another
absent
Gentleman
,
whom
she
had
granted
more
particular
favours
than
ever
she
had
Alexander
.
For
the
Gallant
then
absent
had
receiv'd
of
her
by
way
kindness
,
what
in
matrimony
is
called
Benevolence
,
and
consequently
had
she
not
been
lost
to
all
modesty
,
she
would
have
kept
the
promise
she
had
made
him
,
since
the
breaking
of
that
and
her
own
Reputation
were
not
distinct
actions
.
This
Gallant
of
hers
,
whose
name
was
Don
Fernand
Corella
,
had
made
a
journey
to
Madrid
,
to
prosecute
a
Sute
at
Law
against
the
Count
of
Concentayna
,
his
Uncle
,
for
a
considerable
Estate
in
Lands
,
which
at
last
was
decided
in
the
Sovereign
Council
of
Arragon
.
He
was
return'd
to
Valentia
,
with
a
Decree
to
put
him
into
possession
of
the
said
Estate
,
which
amounted
to
two
thousand
Crowns
per
annum
.
Isabella
was
extremely
put
to
her
shifts
,
not
knowing
how
she
should
keep
in
with
both
these
Gallants
,
and
satisfie
them
at
the
same
time
.
She
consider'd
that
her
Honour
was
engag'd
with
Don
Fernand
,
and
her
Love
with
Alexander
:
her
affection
being
so
much
the
more
heightned
towards
the
latter
in
requital
of
his
assiduous
attendances
,
as
it
was
remitted
towards
the
former
,
by
reason
of
his
absence
.
So
that
it
is
as
much
a
miracle
to
see
some
Women
forget
their
engagements
,
(
when
they
to
whom
they
are
made
are
once
out
of
sight
)
and
mind
onely
the
present
enjoyments
,
as
to
see
Geese
go
barefoot
.
But
as
drowning
persons
will
catch
at
any
thing
,
and
the
distress'd
are
commonly
glad
of
any
advice
.
This
Lady
,
whom
we
represented
before
one
of
the
greatest
Wits
of
her
Nation
,
reduc'd
to
this
extremity
,
must
needs
advise
with
a
Maid
,
whose
fidelity
and
secrecie
she
had
great
assurances
of
,
resolving
in
her self
to
find
out
some
expedient
,
whereby
she
might
make
sure
of
the
one
and
not
lose
the
other
.
She
receiv'd
Don
Fernand
into
the
House
,
in
the
night
,
thinking
she
could
not
civilly
deny
him
the
reiteration
of
a
kindness
she
had
once
granted
him
;
and
she
kept
the
other
in
hand
with
Love-letters
,
allowing
him
not
to
see
her
as
often
as
he
desir'd
,
as
well
to
add
fuel
to
his
love
,
as
that
the
other
,
whom
she
was
more
oblig'd
to
favour
,
might
have
the
freer
access
.
Her
excuse
to
Alexander
was
,
that
she
wanted
not
over-seers
,
that
her
friends
were
very
shie
in
point
of
Honour
,
that
one
of
them
watch'd
her
day
and
night
,
and
that
the
greatest
pleasure
he
could
do
her
,
was
,
to
forbear
passing
through
the
street
where
she
liv'd
,
till
she
had
assur'd
him
that
the
coast
were
clear
.
Alexander
who
really
lov'd
her
,
and
suspected
nothing
of
the
imposture
,
easily
credited
all
she
said
,
and
punctually
obey'd
her
.
Don
Fernand
was
willing
to
require
the
kindness
he
had
receiv'd
from
her
,
by
marrying
her
;
but
having
a
mother
alive
who
would
not
have
been
well
pleas'd
with
that
marriage
,
he
took
occasion
to
put
it
off
,
hoping
it
would
not
be
long
ere
she
were
remov'd
out
of
the
way
,
as
being
very
ancient
.
So
that
he
pass'd
away
the
time
very
jocundly
with
his
Mistress
,
while
she
,
by
her
cunning
insinuations
and
artifices
,
endeavour'd
to
bring
Alexander
into
a
fool's
paradise
,
and
make
him
believe
all
proceeded
from
affection
.
There
hapned
about
this
time
a
difference
between
Alexander
and
another
Gentleman
,
of
the
most
eminent
about
the
City
,
whose
name
was
Don
Garceran
,
as
they
were
playing
at
Tennis
.
Some
Friends
interpos'd
between
them
,
and
't
was
conceiv'd
they
were
made
friends
;
but
the
reconciliation
prov'd
such
as
neither
was
satisfi'd
.
Alexander
was
a
person
of
a
generous
open
nature
,
grounding
his
gallantry
on
the
emploiments
he
had
had
in
Flanders
,
and
imagining
that
no
man
,
having
any
thing
to
say
to
him
,
would
do
it
otherwise
than
by
the
ways
of
Honour
.
But
his
Adversary
,
conceiving
he
had
more
reason
to
be
offended
than
the
other
,
who
had
not
express'd
so
much
resentment
,
smother'd
his
malice
,
in
hopes
of
an
opportunity
,
wherein
he
might
revenge
himself
with
advantage
.
Don
Fernand
was
gone
to
a
certain
place
in
the
Country
,
where
he
staid
three
or
four
days
.
Isabella
,
who
had
a
great
kindness
for
Alexander
,
sent
him
word
to
come
to
her
house
in
the
night
,
but
so
secretly
and
with
such
caution
that
none
might
perceive
it
,
inasmuch
as
the
freedom
she
gave
him
,
concern'd
her
reputation
in
the
highest
degree
.
The
Amorous
Cavalier
obey'd
her
in
this
,
as
he
had
done
in
many
other
things
she
had
commanded
him
,
coming
thither
at
such
hours
as
it
was
not
likely
any
should
see
him
.
Thus
,
by
his
credulity
he
promoted
the
designs
of
the
subtil
woman
,
who
would
craftily
make
the
most
of
both
her
Gallants
,
so
that
,
preventing
their
being
jealous
of
one
another
,
nay
,
knowing
that
they
were
Rivals
,
she
gull'd
them
both
.
Had
she
been
free
to
make
her
own
choice
,
no
doubt
,
she
would
have
pitch'd
upon
Alexander
for
her
Husband
.
But
Fernand
being
aforehand
with
her
,
she
could
do
no
less
,
though
't
were
onely
out
of
a
fear
to
lose
him
,
and
prevent
the
reproaches
he
might
make
her
,
than
keep
him
still
in
play
,
and
expect
the
performance
of
the
promise
he
had
made
to
marry
her
,
as
soon
as
his
Mother
were
march'd
off
.
But
out
of
an
apprehension
that
even
then
he
might
possiblv
break
his
word
with
her
,
she
thought
it
prudence
,
to
give
Alexander
also
a
little
more
line
.
Upon
these
considerations
,
she
suffer'd
her self
to
be
courted
by
both
:
but
of
this
kind
of
demeanor
this
Age
affords
but
too
many
examples
,
which
have
bred
great
troubles
and
disturbances
in
the
most
considerable
Families
.
Alexander
being
now
more
kindly
entertain'd
by
his
Mistress
than
he
had
been
,
began
to
conceive
a
hope
to
obtain
of
her
,
within
a
short
time
,
the
Grand
Favour
can
be
expected
from
a
Woman
.
But
he
reckon'd
without
his
Hostess
;
for
it
was
her
fear
,
that
,
if
she
oblig'd
him
in
what
he
so
much
desir'd
,
he
might
become
absolute
Master
of
those
inclinations
,
which
she
had
so
dextrously
divided
between
them
both
.
However
Alexander
pass'd
away
the
time
pleasantly
enough
,
during
the
absence
of
Fernand
;
but
as
soon
as
he
was
return'd
to
Valentia
,
Isabella
began
to
put
on
a
greater
reserv'dness
,
and
would
not
be
so
much
as
seen
by
Alexander
.
She
made
him
such
plausible
excuses
for
it
,
that
he
,
loving
her
as
he
did
,
believ'd
all
she
said
,
though
not
without
some
suspicion
,
that
there
might
be
somewhat
else
in
the
wind
:
upon
which
account
he
often
disguis'd
himself
,
that
he
might
,
undiscover'd
,
visit
the
street
where
she
liv'd
in
the
night
.
But
he
never
could
meet
with
any
person
,
of
whom
he
might
conceive
any
jealousie
;
yet
that
disguise
did
him
a
courtesie
;
for
by
that
means
he
escap'd
being
discover'd
by
the
Cavalier
who
sought
to
be
reveng'd
of
him
.
That
he
met
not
with
Fernand
in
that
street
,
proceeded
hence
,
that
Isabella
,
fore-seeing
all
inconveniences
,
had
ordered
,
that
Fernand
should
come
to
her
house
,
through
that
of
a
She-friend
of
hers
,
which
was
in
another
street
,
and
had
a
back-door
,
leading
into
a
Garden
joining
unto
Isabella's
,
in
whose
embraces
he
spent
the
whole
night
.
It
hapned
,
one
night
,
that
Alexander
being
in
the
street
where
his
Mistress
liv'd
,
his
Adversary
,
Don
Garceran
,
attended
by
two
of
his
servants
,
comes
into
it
by
another
way
.
Being
not
well
assur'd
it
was
he
,
they
follow'd
him
at
a
distance
,
being
loath
to
do
another
that
mischief
which
they
onely
intended
him
.
Alexander
at
last
observ'd
them
,
and
finding
himself
unfurnish'd
with
Pistols
,
to
deal
with
persons
who
never
went
without
them
,
as
having
onely
his
Sword
to
defend
himself
,
he
bethought
him
to
make
the
signal
he
was
wont
at
Isabella's
door
,
who
,
as
good
luck
would
have
it
,
was
come
down
stairs
,
after
she
had
put
Fernand
into
bed
.
She
looks
out
at
the
window
,
to
see
what
her
second
Gallant
would
have
,
who
,
as
soon
as
he
perceiv'd
her
,
desir'd
her
immediately
to
open
the
door
,
otherwise
he
was
a
dead
man
,
in
regard
Garceran
,
his
enemy
,
follow'd
him
,
and
he
was
destitute
of
weapons
to
defend
himself
.
The
Lady
imagin'd
that
Alexander
would
onely
have
put
a
trick
upon
her
,
and
onely
said
so
,
that
he
might
come
in
the
sooner
:
but
Alexander
,
with
many
oaths
,
affirm'd
he
said
nothing
but
the
truth
,
and
that
Garceran
,
with
two
others
,
were
coming
upon
him
.
Isabella
was
extremely
troubled
at
his
discourse
,
and
for
answer
,
told
him
,
that
a
certain
Gentlewoman
of
her
acquaintance
was
come
to
see
her
,
and
to
be
her
Bedfellow
that
night
,
and
that
she
durst
not
open
the
door
,
lest
he
might
be
seen
by
her
.
Alexander
press'd
her
the
more
to
do
it
,
aggravating
the
danger
he
was
in
,
and
charging
her
that
she
had
little
love
for
him
,
when
she
deni'd
him
entrance
into
her
house
in
so
great
an
extremity
,
which
the
greatest
stranger
in
the
world
would
not
have
deni'd
him
.
Isabella
told
him
again
,
that
she
could
not
do
it
without
prejudice
to
her
reputation
;
that
as
to
the
Love
she
bore
him
,
be
needed
not
doubt
of
it
,
since
it
could
not
be
greater
than
it
was
,
and
call'd
Heaven
to
witness
,
that
she
was
extremely
perplex'd
,
that
she
could
not
satisfie
his
desires
.
Alexander
told
her
,
that
since
her
friend
was
in
a
room
above-stairs
,
she
might
without
any
scruple
open
the
door
,
and
let
him
stay
below
,
till
such
time
as
he
might
retire
with
safety
.
Isabella
,
seeing
him
so
importunate
,
imagin'd
it
proceeded
from
some
suspition
he
had
conceiv'd
of
her
,
and
that
he
had
seen
Fernand
coming
into
the
House
.
To
be
assur'd
whether
it
were
so
or
no
,
she
look'd
into
the
Street
,
and
saw
the
three
Men
who
pursu'd
him
,
and
whispering
one
to
another
,
as
being
in
some
uncertainty
whether
it
were
the
Person
they
look'd
for
.
These
circumstances
fully
satisfy'd
her
,
that
Alexander
was
in
very
great
danger
;
and
to
find
some
expedient
to
give
him
entrance
,
she
bid
him
expect
a
little
and
she
would
see
whether
she
could
open
the
door
.
She
went
up
stairs
to
see
Fernand
,
who
,
wondring
at
her
stay
,
ask'd
her
what
occasion'd
her
going
down
.
She
told
him
her
Aunt
was
not
fallen
asleep
,
and
that
she
could
not
come
to
Bed
,
till
she
were
,
desiring
him
to
have
a
little
patience
.
Having
thus
satisfy'd
him
,
she
went
into
another
room
,
to
consider
with
her self
what
might
be
done
in
such
an
extremity
.
On
the
one
side
,
she
saw
Fernand
possess'd
of
her
Bed
,
a
person
of
a
fantastick
humour
,
yet
one
whom
she
was
engag'd
to
,
and
had
made
Master
of
the
most
precious
thing
she
had
,
and
still
humour'd
out
of
a
hope
to
be
one
day
his
Wife
;
so
that
her
Honour
was
on
his
part
.
On
the
other
,
the
Love
she
bore
Alexander
would
have
prevail'd
with
her
,
not
to
suffer
him
to
be
assassinated
by
his
Enemies
,
which
he
must
run
the
hazard
of
,
if
she
reliev'd
him
not
,
it
being
in
her
power
to
do
it
:
So
that
she
was
strangely
distracted
,
not
knowing
whether
she
should
follow
the
dictates
of
Honour
,
or
those
of
Love
.
At
last
,
after
divers
considerations
,
that
of
Honour
prevail'd
with
her
,
and
oblig'd
her
not
to
receive
Alexander
into
the
house
.
For
if
she
did
,
she
reflected
that
her
reputation
would
be
endanger'd
two
ways
;
one
,
that
it
could
not
be
done
without
Fernand's
hearing
of
it
,
who
would
thence
take
occasion
to
break
his
promise
;
another
,
that
if
Alexander
were
pursu'd
by
his
Enemy
,
and
that
he
should
see
him
come
into
her
house
,
he
would
be
apt
to
make
an
ill
construction
of
it
,
and
that
might
come
to
the
ears
of
Fernand
,
even
though
he
saw
him
not
.
Having
thus
resolv'd
to
stick
to
the
surer
side
,
she
went
down
stairs
,
and
finding
Alexander
still
at
the
door
,
My
dearest
Love
,
said
she
to
him
,
Heaven
's
my
witness
,
how
willing
I
am
to
satisfie
your
desires
,
by
giving
you
entrance
,
not
onely
into
my
house
,
but
even
into
my
heart
,
which
is
absolutely
at
your
disposal
.
I
see
you
are
pursu'd
,
as
you
told
me
,
but
it
were
too
great
an
inconvenience
to
me
,
that
you
should
be
seen
coming
into
my
house
at
such
an
unseasonable
hour
,
being
a
person
yet
so
unblemish'd
in
my
reputation
as
I
am
.
I
beseech
you
consider
with
your self
what
discourses
it
might
occasion
.
Besides
my
Friend
,
who
is
my
Bed-fellow
this
night
,
is
awake
,
and
,
as
Women
are
extreamly
inquisitive
,
she
will
be
desirous
to
know
the
occasion
of
my
stay
,
and
who
hath
kept
me
so
long
from
her
,
for
there
is
a
very
great
familiarity
between
us
.
Pardon
me
therefore
,
that
I
cannot
grant
your
desire
;
it
is
the
greatest
affliction
imaginable
to
me
,
that
I
must
leave
you
in
such
a
danger
,
but
reflecting
on
that
of
my
reputation
,
I
know
you
would
not
have
me
to
hazard
it
,
since
I
doubt
not
but
you
are
so
generous
,
as
to
prefer
my
Honour
before
your
own
Life
.
This
unworthy
treatment
of
his
Mistress
,
in
so
pressing
an
extremity
,
went
to
the
very
heart
of
Alexander
,
nay
he
was
so
startled
to
find
himself
thus
undeceiv'd
,
that
it
would
not
have
troubled
him
much
if
Garceran
had
set
upon
him
,
that
he
might
be
reveng'd
of
the
affront
done
him
by
Isabella
,
by
Dying
before
her
Eyes
.
I
should
never
have
imagin'd
,
said
he
,
parting
from
her
,
that
you
could
have
been
so
barbarous
,
as
to
put
me
off
so
poorly
in
so
dangerous
an
exigency
,
or
so
inexorable
,
upon
the
entreaties
of
so
faithful
a
Servant
.
You
never
had
any
real
kindness
for
me
;
that
reputation
you
stand
so
nicely
upon
,
would
have
run
no
hazard
,
either
as
to
your
Friend
,
or
my
Enemy
,
by
your
receiving
me
as
a
Husband
,
upon
which
accompt
only
I
made
my
addresses
to
you
,
upon
which
if
you
,
ungrateful
Woman
,
had
entertain'd
me
,
and
not
insisted
on
frivolous
respects
grounded
on
such
maxims
as
I
cannot
like
,
my
heart
had
at
this
time
been
absolutely
at
your
disposal
.
To
make
it
deservedly
such
,
hath
been
the
main
end
of
all
my
Courtships
and
Services
,
but
Heaven
would
not
permit
it
;
and
since
I
could
find
no
compassion
in
your
heart
,
I
will
go
and
try
what
I
may
expect
from
my
Enemy
,
with
a
resolution
never
to
forget
a
procedure
I
am
so
much
astonish'd
at
.
Isabella
would
have
made
him
some
Answer
,
and
,
extreamly
mov'd
at
his
discourse
,
was
resolv'd
to
hazard
all
,
to
assure
him
of
her
affection
.
But
when
she
went
to
call
him
,
he
was
got
a
great
way
down
the
street
,
pursu'd
by
Garceran
,
who
being
assur'd
he
was
the
person
he
look'd
for
,
was
going
to
set
upon
him
.
His
resentment
of
her
unkindness
,
considering
the
imminency
of
the
danger
,
seem'd
just
to
her
,
and
being
extreamly
troubled
thereat
,
after
she
had
blam'd
her self
,
she
quarrel'd
at
Heaven
,
which
in
the
mean
time
secur'd
her
Lover
from
danger
,
and
reserv'd
him
for
happier
adventures
.
Garceran
coming
within
Pistol-shot
of
Alexander
,
perceiv'd
that
he
had
met
with
his
Friend
Don
Jaymo
,
who
,
with
his
Servant
,
was
going
home
to
his
Lodging
,
which
prevented
him
from
executing
his
design
.
For
Garceran
being
,
in
appearance
,
and
that
before
several
persons
,
reconcil'd
with
him
,
all
would
have
blam'd
him
,
had
he
assaulted
him
upon
the
old
accompt
,
especially
at
advantage
,
and
with
Fire-arms
.
So
that
seeing
he
had
lost
such
a
fair
opportunity
to
revenge
himself
,
he
slipp'd
aside
,
to
avoid
being
known
,
imagining
he
had
not
been
discover'd
.
Alexander
related
the
whole
story
to
his
friend
,
and
how
he
had
been
pursu'd
thither
;
which
he
much
wondred
at
,
seeing
Garceran
so
little
minded
the
engagement
he
had
made
before
so
many
persons
of
quality
,
and
that
so
slight
a
business
should
stick
so
close
to
his
heart
.
It
was
by
this
time
very
late
,
and
as
well
for
that
reason
,
as
to
be
satisfy'd
of
what
he
suspected
,
Alexander
being
near
Don
Jaymo's
Lodging
,
resolv'd
to
take
part
of
it
that
night
,
which
his
friend
was
very
glad
of
.
They
got
in
,
and
ere
they
lay
down
,
they
fell
into
discourse
about
what
had
pass'd
.
Alexander
open'd
himself
to
Don
Jaymo
,
and
acquainted
him
how
things
stood
between
him
and
Isabella
.
Don
Jaymo
had
heard
somewhat
of
the
mutual
love
there
was
between
her
and
Fernand
,
and
was
vex'd
to
see
his
friend
had
so
far
mis-plac'd
his
affections
,
and
particularly
at
the
resolution
he
had
made
to
Marry
her
;
whereupon
he
could
not
forbear
telling
him
what
he
had
heard
of
her
and
Fernand
.
Which
Alexander
understanding
,
he
immediately
presum'd
,
that
the
reason
why
she
opened
not
the
door
,
must
needs
be
,
that
her
former
Gallant
was
with
her
.
A
thousand
passages
came
into
his
mind
,
but
he
particularly
reflected
on
the
prohibition
,
which
the
crafty
Gentlewoman
had
made
him
,
of
speaking
to
her
in
the
night
,
and
that
it
was
onely
since
Fernand's
return
from
Madrid
:
Upon
which
communicating
his
thoughts
to
his
friend
,
they
joyntly
concluded
,
that
Fernand
must
needs
be
in
the
House
with
her
.
To
be
fully
assur'd
of
it
,
they
ordered
a
Servant
of
Don
Jaymo's
to
examine
the
business
,
and
to
continue
in
the
Street
,
till
it
were
Day
:
and
for
further
certainty
,
another
Servant
was
appointed
to
stand
centry
in
the
other
Street
,
by
which
Fernand
was
wont
to
get
in
at
a
back-door
.
With
this
precaution
,
they
went
to
Bed
together
;
but
Alexander
was
in
such
a
disturbance
,
that
he
could
not
sleep
a
wink
.
About
half
an
hour
before
Day
,
one
of
the
Servants
brought
intelligence
,
that
he
had
seen
Don
Fernand
going
out
of
the
House
belonging
to
Isabella's
Friend
,
and
that
about
the
same
time
,
he
had
seen
Isabella
in
one
of
the
Windows
that
look'd
into
that
Street
,
looking
on
him
as
he
went
out
,
and
that
he
was
sure
it
was
no
other
than
she
her self
.
This
accompt
satisfy'd
Alexander
so
fully
,
that
all
the
Love
he
formerly
bore
that
impudent
Woman
,
immediately
vanished
.
'T
was
not
imaginable
,
that
Fernand
frequented
that
House
,
upon
the
accompt
of
the
Mistress
of
it
,
who
being
turn'd
of
fifty
,
could
not
be
courted
by
any
Gallants
.
Besides
,
she
had
the
reputation
of
being
a
very
charitable
person
in
Love-affairs
,
and
was
wont
to
promote
the
enjoyments
of
younger
people
,
and
to
give
excellent
directions
how
they
might
most
cautiously
accomplish
their
desires
.
The
night
following
,
Alexander
would
himself
,
from
the
House
of
a
certain
friend
of
his
,
see
Fernand
getting
into
the
Sanctuary
of
that
charitable
Sollicitress
,
and
for
his
further
assurance
,
he
lay
perdue
upon
the
Roof
,
whence
he
discover'd
,
that
that
favour'd
Gallant
continu'd
there
,
till
word
was
brought
him
that
he
might
make
his
entrance
into
Isabella's
.
That
very
night
,
the
dissembling
Gossip
,
would
needs
endeavour
to
satisfie
her
Lover
,
as
to
the
dissatisfaction
he
might
justly
have
conceiv'd
of
her
.
To
leave
nothing
unattempted
,
and
to
keep
in
as
near
as
might
be
with
all
,
she
sent
Alexander
a
Letter
,
by
a
Servant-maid
,
in
whom
she
reposed
great
trust
,
and
who
was
not
a
stranger
to
the
Loves
of
both
the
Gallants
,
and
promoted
the
design
of
her
Mistress
in
abusing
them
,
for
the
advantage
she
reaped
thereby
.
Hearing
she
staid
to
speak
with
him
,
he
call'd
her
up
,
and
receiv'd
from
her
a
Paper
containing
these
words
.
THE
LETTER
.
Signor
Alexander
,
I
Should
not
think
the
resentment
you
justly
have
against
me
so
great
as
I
do
,
were
I
able
to
express
the
trouble
I
am
in
to
have
been
the
occasion
of
it
.
That
I
have
not
been
so
compassionate
as
the
exigency
requir'd
,
be
pleas'd
to
attribute
to
the
tenderness
I
had
for
my
own
Honour
,
the
consideration
whereof
made
me
inexorable
.
I
love
you
beyond
my
own
Life
;
but
one
of
my
Birth
and
Sex
may
be
pardon'd
,
if
she
sacrifice
all
things
to
the
security
of
her
Reputation
,
rather
than
expose
her self
to
the
censures
of
ill
Tongues
.
You
may
well
imagine
,
when
I
deny'd
you
entrance
into
my
House
,
that
my
good
Name
must
run
a
strange
hazard
with
that
troublesome
Bed-fellow
,
whom
,
to
my
unhappiness
,
I
was
then
forc'd
to
entertain
.
Notwithstanding
the
resentment
wherewith
you
left
me
,
you
could
not
but
observe
the
distraction
I
was
in
:
whence
you
may
infer
,
how
thankfully
I
have
since
acknowledg'd
the
indulgence
of
those
higher
powers
,
who
rescu'd
you
out
of
a
danger
,
which
I
thought
unavoidable
.
You
could
not
have
lost
your
Life
in
that
adventure
,
but
mine
must
have
run
the
same
hazard
,
and
I
do
not
know
any
thing
but
Honour
,
which
I
should
prefer
before
two
things
I
accompt
so
pretious
.
Let
me
therefore
conjure
you
,
to
smother
your
resentment
of
it
,
and
to
appease
your
indignation
:
which
if
I
may
obtain
of
you
,
I
shall
think
all
the
devoirs
your
Love
may
require
little
enough
to
requite
it
.
Your
compliance
with
my
desires
herein
will
inform
me
what
tenderness
you
have
for
her
satisfaction
and
Life
,
who
prays
Heaven
to
preserve
yours
,
as
she
wishes
it
may
her's
,
who
loves
you
with
all
her
soul
.
ISABELLA
.
Alexander
was
extreamly
incens'd
at
this
Letter
,
and
though
he
did
all
he
could
to
dissemble
it
,
yet
the
Maid
looking
on
him
very
earnestly
during
the
perusal
,
sufficiently
observ'd
it
in
his
gestures
.
He
intreated
her
to
walk
into
the
Garden
,
and
stay
for
an
Answer
,
which
was
this
.
THE
LETTER
.
YOur
satisfactions
,
hitherto
,
have
ever
heightned
my
Love
,
but
this
last
hath
wrought
in
me
a
quite
contrary
effect
,
for
I
know
it
to
be
as
far
from
truth
,
as
I
am
from
dissimulation
.
I
never
thought
my self
a
person
to
be
entertain'd
onely
to
pass
away
the
tedious
interval
of
another
Man's
absence
,
nor
to
act
the
ridiculous
part
you
have
put
me
upon
,
onely
to
come
upon
the
Stage
,
between
the
several
Acts
of
your
secret
prostitutions
.
If
it
be
any
satisfaction
to
you
,
know
,
I
have
disengag'd
all
resentments
of
your
Hypocrisie
,
and
shall
never
complain
of
the
frivolous
Elusions
,
wherein
you
suffered
my
Love
to
Languish
;
no
,
I
am
more
oblig'd
to
your
Denials
,
than
ever
I
should
have
been
to
your
Caresses
.
My
Life
indeed
would
have
been
secur'd
,
if
you
had
receiv'd
me
into
your
House
;
but
my
Honour
would
have
been
irrecoverably
lost
,
if
,
without
my
discovery
of
it
,
you
could
have
exercis'd
your
Charity
on
two
several
persons
,
the
same
night
.
'T
is
very
probable
you
lov'd
me
beyond
your
own
Life
,
when
,
being
so
closely
engag'd
to
another
,
you
thought
me
the
fittest
Person
in
the
World
to
make
your
Diversion
.
I
am
really
oblig'd
to
those
who
intended
to
be
my
Murtherers
,
since
by
their
means
I
came
to
discover
your
imposture
.
Make
sure
of
that
fortunate
Gallant
,
whom
your
charitable
Neighbour
was
ushering
to
your
Bed
,
while
I
was
knocking
at
your
Door
.
Make
sure
of
him
,
perfidious
Woman
,
and
henceforth
,
keep
all
your
Cares
and
all
your
Caresses
onely
for
him
.
Live
as
happily
with
him
as
the
Conscience
of
your
Inhumanity
towards
me
will
permit
,
and
never
think
more
of
Alexander
,
who
,
for
his
part
,
disclaims
all
future
thoughts
of
you
.
It
was
not
long
ere
this
Letter
came
to
the
hands
of
Isabella
,
whom
the
Maid
found
in
that
Neighbour's
House
of
hers
,
through
which
Fernand
had
access
to
her
.
She
receiv'd
it
with
some
disturbance
,
and
asking
the
Maid
,
what
humour
she
found
him
in
,
she
told
her
,
that
he
had
made
her
a
very
cold
Reception
,
and
that
he
express'd
nothing
of
the
Kindnesses
he
was
wont
to
do
,
at
other
times
.
Isabella
a
little
cast
down
at
that
discourse
,
It
seems
then
,
said
she
,
I
am
not
to
promise
my self
any
great
satisfaction
from
this
Letter
.
Having
open'd
and
read
it
,
she
was
like
one
put
into
a
fright
,
not
able
to
speak
.
Her
Friend
ask'd
her
what
it
contain'd
?
she
thinking
it
too
great
a
burthen
,
to
acquaint
her
by
word
of
Mouth
,
gave
her
the
Letter
to
peruse
.
The
old
Croney
,
no
less
disturb
than
the
young
Mistress
,
found
,
that
Fernand's
love
was
discover'd
,
to
the
great
disadvantage
of
her
Reputation
,
in
as
much
as
it
clearly
express'd
,
that
it
was
through
her
House
,
Fernand
made
his
approaches
to
her
Friend
,
whereat
she
was
extreamly
afflicted
.
Isabella
was
so
troubled
at
the
contents
of
that
Letter
,
that
she
curs'd
the
day
and
hour
she
had
suffered
Alexander
to
court
her
:
The
onely
comfort
she
could
raise
to
her self
,
was
,
that
she
knew
him
to
be
of
so
generous
a
disposition
,
that
,
though
he
had
a
just
occasion
to
be
incens'd
against
her
,
yet
would
he
conceal
her
weakness
,
and
not
publish
the
correspondence
there
had
been
between
them
.
This
kind
of
generosity
might
haply
be
a
little
practis'd
in
the
Golden
Age
,
for
the
people
living
in
this
,
have
so
far
forgot
the
Tradition
,
that
they
aggravate
Truths
deplorable
enough
,
with
affected
Lies
and
Calumnies
,
for
which
we
must
ever
acknowledge
our selves
oblig'd
to
the
ruling
Casuists
of
the
Times
.
But
Isabella's
unhappiness
was
not
yet
come
to
its
height
,
and
the
malice
of
her
ill
fortune
thought
not
this
affliction
heavy
enough
.
When
the
wheel
of
that
vagabond-Goddess
begins
to
turn
,
every
spoke
of
it
brings
a
new
misfortune
,
one
disgrace
coming
still
in
the
neck
of
another
.
It
happen'd
then
,
that
as
the
Maid
was
coming
out
of
Alexander's
lodgings
,
to
bring
the
Letter
to
her
Mistress
,
Fernand
saw
her
with
it
in
her
hand
,
she
having
been
careless
to
hide
it
,
because
she
was
dis-satisfi'd
with
Alexander
,
who
had
onely
that
time
omitted
to
make
her
some
present
.
Fernand
immediately
began
to
suspect
somewhat
,
and
,
undiscover'd
,
follow'd
her
to
the
house
where
Isabella
was
,
and
got
into
one
of
the
upper-rooms
,
without
any
bodie
's
taking
notice
of
it
.
The
Maid
,
by
a
second
oversight
,
having
left
the
door
open
,
he
easily
saw
what
pass'd
,
he
heard
the
Letter
read
from
one
end
to
the
other
,
and
withall
,
their
several
discourses
and
comments
upon
it
;
the
afflicted
Lady
bursting
forth
into
indignation
at
every
word
,
and
not
imagining
she
was
over-heard
,
she
sufficiently
express'd
her
resentment
of
so
pressing
a
misfortune
.
The
Gentleman
in
the
next
room
,
who
would
have
been
glad
of
any
occasion
to
break
the
promise
he
had
made
to
marry
her
(
for
a
Lover
once
admitted
to
enjoyment
hath
other-guise
thoughts
than
he
who
is
still
kept
in
hope
)
hearing
all
these
things
,
conceiv'd
them
a
very
fair
pretence
to
disengage
himself
.
He
therefore
goes
very
confidently
into
the
room
where
they
were
,
and
addressing
himself
to
Isabella
,
who
was
most
startled
at
his
presence
,
I
expected
,
said
he
,
considering
the
mutual
obligations
between
us
,
that
you
would
have
corresponded
thereto
,
with
a
sincerity
sutable
to
my
desires
,
which
aim'd
onely
at
this
,
to
see
us
one
day
made
one
by
marriage
,
and
to
enjoy
those
pleasures
lawfully
,
and
without
any
sting
or
remorse
,
which
we
have
,
upon
hopes
of
the
accomplishment
of
that
sacred
Tie
,
presum'd
to
anticipate
.
But
since
,
ungrateful
creature
,
I
find
you
lost
to
all
modesty
,
and
have
entertain'd
new
Gallants
,
I
am
free
,
to
dispose
of
my self
as
I
shall
think
most
convenient
:
since
it
were
neither
just
,
nor
rational
,
I
should
be
inseparably
bound
to
a
person
,
destitute
of
all
conduct
and
honour
,
and
so
live
the
rest
of
my
days
in
perpetual
jealousies
and
distrusts
.
Having
so
said
,
he
left
the
room
,
a
little
troubled
at
the
distraction
of
the
Women
,
but
well
satisfi'd
in
his
own
thoughts
,
that
he
had
drawn
his
neck
out
of
the
collar
,
that
is
,
shifted
himself
out
of
an
affair
,
which
bred
him
a
great
deal
of
trouble
,
since
his
prosecution
of
it
to
that
point
had
been
with
the
dis-approbation
of
his
Mother
.
'T
is
not
to
be
imagin'd
,
that
the
constancy
of
any
Woman
,
should
be
able
to
endure
so
great
a
shock
of
misfortune
.
Isabella
fell
into
a
swound
between
the
arms
of
her
Friend
,
and
continu'd
in
it
a
long
time
;
but
at
last
being
come
to
her self
again
,
she
spoke
such
things
as
rais'd
a
great
compassion
in
her
who
heard
them
.
She
sought
for
remedies
to
her
misery
,
and
not
finding
any
strong
enough
to
re-engage
Alexander
,
who
was
acquainted
with
her
former
engagement
,
nor
yet
to
bring
back
Fernand
,
whom
she
knew
she
had
offended
,
she
was
not
able
to
smother
the
grief
she
conceiv'd
to
find
her self
so
justly
slighted
by
both
.
She
imputed
all
her
misfortune
to
her
own
mis-government
of
her self
.
Whereupon
she
fell
a
tearing
of
her
hair
,
and
spoke
what-ever
rage
could
inspire
into
a
Woman
exasperated
in
the
highest
degree
.
She
pass'd
away
the
rest
of
the
afternoon
in
continual
disquiet
,
not
finding
any
comfort
in
either
her
friend's
discourses
,
or
her
own
.
In
the
evening
,
she
went
to
her
own
house
,
but
her
distractions
went
along
with
her
,
so
that
it
is
not
to
be
imagin'd
but
the
night
prov'd
as
restless
,
as
the
day
had
been
unfortunate
.
Let
us
a
while
leave
her
in
her
bed
,
now
the
secret
Remembrancer
of
her
former
miscarriages
,
in
the
midst
of
her
troubles
and
transportations
,
and
give
an
account
what
became
of
Alexander
.
As
soon
as
he
had
dispatch'd
away
the
Maid
with
his
Letter
to
Isabella
,
he
sate
down
a
while
to
consider
with
himself
what
course
he
should
take
,
for
he
saw
there
was
nothing
to
be
expected
there
,
and
that
it
was
not
for
his
reputation
,
to
continue
his
visits
any
longer
.
He
had
always
had
a
great
inclination
for
the
fair
Laodamia
,
ever
since
she
had
occasion'd
Isabella
to
break
forth
into
that
extravagant
discovery
of
her
jealousie
;
He
consider'd
she
was
a
Gentlewoman
well
descended
,
and
of
a
great
fortune
;
and
thereupon
he
resolv'd
to
make
his
addresses
publickly
to
her
,
by
demanding
her
in
marriage
of
her
Father
and
Brother
,
which
they
,
upon
the
first
motion
,
very
willingly
granted
,
even
with
great
demonstrations
of
gladness
,
inasmuch
as
Alexander
was
a
person
generally
belov'd
in
his
Country
,
as
being
endu'd
with
those
qualities
,
which
deserv'd
the
respects
and
esteem
of
all
.
The
Contract
of
Marriage
was
soon
drawn
up
,
and
the
business
immediately
spread
over
the
whole
City
of
Valentia
.
But
when
this
news
came
to
the
ears
of
Isabella
,
imagine
whether
she
were
not
extremely
troubled
thereat
,
nay
so
much
the
more
,
in
that
he
pitch'd
on
the
person
,
whom
of
all
the
world
she
had
most
reason
to
hate
,
ever
since
that
fatal
meeting
,
wherein
she
had
express'd
so
much
indiscretion
.
She
said
a
thousand
things
against
her
,
and
made
many
imprecations
against
him
and
her self
,
charging
Heaven
with
injustice
,
and
sometimes
bemoaning
her self
,
and
sometimes
cursing
her
misfortune
.
But
it
was
not
onely
one
she
had
to
curse
;
for
the
very
same
day
it
was
seconded
by
another
,
yet
greater
,
inasmuch
as
Fernand
,
having
had
a
plausible
occasion
to
break
the
promise
he
had
made
to
her
,
treated
about
a
marriage
,
with
another
fair
and
rich
young
Lady
,
whom
his
mother
had
long
before
recommended
to
him
.
The
Contract
was
in
a
few
days
drawn
up
,
and
though
done
as
secretly
as
could
be
,
yet
was
it
soon
known
all
over
the
City
,
and
it
was
not
long
ere
the
news
came
to
the
ears
of
Isabella
.
She
still
retain'd
a
slender
shadow
of
confidence
in
the
love
of
Fernand
,
which
made
her
imagine
he
would
not
break
the
promise
he
had
made
to
her
,
conceiving
she
had
sufficiently
oblig'd
him
thereto
by
the
highest
demonstrations
of
love
and
tenderness
.
Thus
she
flatter'd
her self
,
till
the
very
day
that
she
was
clearly
convinc'd
of
the
contrary
,
saw
his
marriage
concluded
,
and
her self
absolutely
forsaken
.
But
reflecting
on
the
other
side
,
what
an
unworthy
breach
of
trust
she
was
guilty
of
,
towards
him
,
to
whom
she
had
devoted
her
honour
,
how
could
she
imagine
he
should
not
leave
her
in
the
lerch
?
How
could
she
expect
,
if
they
intermarried
,
he
should
be
able
to
live
with
her
in
perpetual
disturbances
and
alarms
?
The
very
day
that
certain
news
was
brought
her
of
this
Gentleman
's
being
married
,
she
fell
into
such
extravagance
,
that
she
would
be
reveng'd
of
her
beautiful
face
;
she
gave
her self
several
blows
,
tore
her
hair
,
and
did
all
the
actions
,
which
could
onely
proceed
from
madness
and
dispair
.
Her
fair
eyes
became
two
fountains
,
perpetually
running
;
and
when
her
sighes
and
grief
gave
her
a
little
freedom
of
speech
,
Wretched
woman
that
I
am
,
would
she
say
,
of
whom
all
good
fortune
hath
taken
its
last
leave
;
how
deserv'dly
is
thy
ingratitude
requited
with
ingratitude
?
How
justly
art
thou
punish'd
,
for
having
kept
thy
faith
to
a
base
,
treacherous
,
and
perfidious
person
,
after
thou
hadst
entrusted
him
with
the
disposal
of
the
dearest
thing
thou
hadst
in
the
world
?
Thou
see'st
,
he
denies
the
debt
;
thou
see'st
,
he
paies
it
with
inconstancy
and
oblivion
.
Let
all
easie-natur'd
,
and
inconsiderate
women
take
example
by
me
;
let
those
,
who
,
deluded
by
flatteries
and
feigned
caresses
,
are
drawn
in
to
lose
what
they
shall
never
recover
again
,
cast
their
eyes
on
my
misery
,
and
then
consider
whether
there
be
any
other
in
the
world
,
whose
affliction
may
be
compar'd
to
mine
.
I
wish
for
what
all
others
abhor
,
Death
;
but
it
is
deaf
and
inexorable
,
nay
slights
me
,
and
will
not
come
and
put
a
period
to
my
troubles
.
Having
thus
bemoan'd
her self
into
some
remission
of
her
grief
,
she
went
to
see
her
Friend
,
through
whose
house
Fernand
came
into
hers
;
who
though
she
endeavour'd
all
that
lay
in
her
power
to
comfort
her
,
yet
was
her
trouble
so
great
,
the
cause
of
it
so
pressing
,
and
so
little
hope
of
any
remedy
,
that
all
her
remonstrances
prevail'd
nothing
.
The
onely
expedient
that
seem'd
then
to
offer
it self
,
was
,
to
forbid
the
Banes
,
since
there
was
some
ground
to
do
it
.
But
what
proof
could
be
made
of
so
secret
a
Love
,
without
any
promise
of
marriage
in
writing
,
or
any
testimony
,
but
that
of
a
Servant-maid
,
who
,
belonging
to
her
,
would
not
have
been
so
easily
credited
?
A
fair
warning-piece
,
Ladies
,
for
those
,
who
,
at
the
same
time
,
admit
the
Courtships
of
several
Gallants
,
without
making
any
reflection
on
their
Honours
,
the
loss
whereof
they
are
not
sensible
of
,
till
,
by
their
subtil
cajollings
,
they
are
brought
to
remediless
extremities
.
The
last
and
surest
expedient
this
unfortunate
Woman
could
pitch
upon
,
was
to
become
a
Nun
,
upon
which
account
she
was
receiv'd
into
the
Royal
Monastery
of
Zaida
,
three
days
after
the
Marriage
of
Fernand
had
been
fully
concluded
.
This
sudden
change
occasion'd
a
great
deal
of
noise
and
discourse
in
Valentia
;
all
wondred
at
it
,
especially
those
who
knew
her
to
be
one
of
the
handsomest
,
and
the
most
desirous
to
be
courted
,
of
any
Lady
in
Valentia
.
It
was
indeed
a
kind
of
miracle
,
to
see
a
young
Lady
,
who
spent
her
time
so
passionately
at
Balls
,
Plays
,
and
other
publick
meetings
,
exchange
all
those
nobler
enjoyments
of
life
,
for
the
imaginary
felicity
of
mortification
and
retir'dness
.
This
sudden
resolution
was
attributed
,
at
first
,
not
to
the
true
cause
thereof
,
for
things
were
carried
so
closely
that
very
few
knew
it
:
but
to
the
secret
inspirations
of
that
wind
,
which
bloweth
where
it
listeth
,
and
is
pleas'd
to
amuse
mankind
with
the
strange
ways
it
takes
,
to
transplant
the
affections
of
such
as
are
ordain'd
to
eternal
bliss
,
from
the
transient
vanities
of
this
world
,
to
the
constant
pursuance
of
the
perpetual
joys
of
a
better
.
Thus
this
Lady
met
with
a
kinder
Spouse
than
she
could
have
expected
else-where
,
and
spent
the
rest
of
her
time
with
great
content
▪
blessing
her
former
afflictions
,
and
the
crosses
of
her
love
,
which
had
brought
her
to
the
tranquillity
she
now
enjoy'd
.
When
she
seriously
reflected
on
the
gracious
designs
of
divine
Love
upon
her
,
she
thought
it
an
act
of
gratitude
,
to
acknowledge
,
to
some
friends
,
how
it
had
made
her
miscarriages
the
subject
of
its
indulgence
,
and
,
instead
of
punishing
,
had
rewarded
her
weakness
;
nay
such
was
her
desire
to
give
God
the
glory
of
her
conversion
,
that
she
frequently
used
this
expression
,
That
in
that
House
,
wherein
there
are
many
mansions
,
she
hop'd
there
was
one
for
such
penitent
Magdalens
as
she
,
who
,
by
timely
repentance
,
expiate
the
follies
of
their
greener
years
.
Nor
was
this
acknowledgment
of
hers
unrewarded
even
in
this
life
;
for
she
became
the
Oracle
and
spiritual
Directress
of
all
those
,
whose
Lovemisfortunes
reduc'd
them
to
any
extremity
,
especially
those
of
her
own
sex
,
of
whom
she
so
effectually
convinc'd
many
,
that
,
disgusting
the
world
,
they
embrac'd
a
Religious
life
.
After
some
years
she
was
advanc'd
to
the
Government
of
the
Monastery
,
after
she
had
put
forth
several
little
Tracts
of
Devotion
,
whereof
one
was
in
Verse
,
entituled
,
A
Basket
of
Spiritual
Flowers
,
or
a
Collection
of
Divine
Poems
.
These
spread
her
fame
into
divers
parts
of
Spain
,
but
at
Valentia
,
the
sanctity
of
her
life
,
and
her
charitable
directions
to
such
as
had
occasion
to
address
themselves
to
her
,
were
the
admiration
of
all
,
insomuch
that
she
was
reputed
a
Saint
,
even
while
she
liv'd
.
Fernand
had
a
wife
,
but
God
was
pleas'd
to
punish
his
perfidiousness
with
her
barrenness
,
for
she
bore
him
no
children
;
and
instead
of
the
great
fortunes
he
expected
with
her
,
he
had
many
bags
,
full
of
Law-sutes
,
troubles
,
and
differences
with
other
people
,
and
not
a
few
discontents
with
his
wife
.
He
wish'd
,
but
too
late
,
that
he
had
rather
entred
into
a
Monastery
,
than
into
Matrimony
,
the
inconveniences
whereof
sufficiently
convinc'd
him
,
that
Isabella
had
made
the
better
choice
.
He
visited
her
often
,
and
was
oblig'd
to
her
for
her
prudent
and
pious
admonitions
.
Nay
to
satisfie
the
world
,
that
she
had
left
behind
her
in
it
all
her
resentments
of
his
demeanor
towards
her
,
there
are
in
a
volume
of
Spiritual
Letters
which
she
put
forth
,
several
Letters
she
had
written
to
him
,
upon
occasion
of
some
difficulties
he
had
propos'd
to
her
.
On
the
contrary
,
Alexander
was
the
happiest
man
in
the
world
in
his
disposal
of
himself
;
his
Laodamia
brought
him
many
fine
children
,
and
,
by
the
death
of
some
friends
,
a
far
greater
fortune
than
he
could
have
expected
.
They
also
visited
their
old
acquaintance
Isabella
,
who
received
them
kindly
,
and
gave
them
occasion
to
admire
the
strange
attractions
of
Divine
Love
in
that
person
,
and
the
esteem
they
had
before
for
the
excellency
of
her
endowments
,
was
now
converted
into
a
reverence
of
her
sanctity
,
and
an
admiration
of
her
conduct
.
THis
pleasant
Novel
entertain'd
the
Company
till
they
came
to
their
Inn
that
night
.
Every
one
took
occasion
to
commend
Doctor
Monsalvo
,
as
well
for
the
smartness
of
his
Invention
,
as
for
the
excellency
of
his
Stile
.
The
old
Gentleman
told
him
,
that
if
the
whole
Piece
were
answerable
to
the
Pattern
he
had
shewn
them
of
it
,
no
doubt
but
his
Novels
would
be
very
well
receiv'd
in
the
World
,
and
that
he
would
gain
as
much
Reputation
by
them
,
as
they
had
had
Pleasure
:
and
thereupon
he
earnestly
entreated
him
to
communicate
somewhat
of
the
others
to
them
,
that
so
their
Travelling
might
be
the
less
tedious
.
The
Doctor
gave
him
and
all
the
rest
of
the
Company
his
very
hearty
thanks
for
the
good
opinion
they
had
of
him
,
and
proffer'd
them
,
when
they
should
be
weary
of
discoursing
,
to
divert
them
with
some
of
the
other
Novels
,
till
they
came
to
their
Journey
's
end
,
provided
they
thought
them
not
tedious
.
They
all
,
with
much
gladness
and
thanks
accepted
of
his
proffer
.
Being
come
within
a
Musket-shot
of
the
antient
City
of
Corduba
,
heretofore
the
chiefest
of
the
Kingdome
,
while
the
Moors
were
possess'd
of
all
Spain
,
after
Sun-set
,
an
unexpected
accident
caus'd
them
to
make
a
little
halt
.
Two
Gentlemen
being
come
out
into
the
Fields
,
upon
a
challenge
,
which
one
had
sent
to
the
other
,
and
having
fought
,
one
of
them
was
worsted
,
being
run
through
the
Body
in
two
several
places
;
which
had
oblig'd
his
adversary
to
make
his
escape
,
to
get
into
some
place
of
sanctuary
.
The
wounded
person
cry'd
out
for
some
body
to
receive
his
Confession
,
just
as
the
Coach
pass'd
by
:
which
being
heard
by
the
Company
,
Doctor
Monsalvo
,
who
was
a
Priest
and
Confessor
,
could
do
no
less
than
get
out
,
accompany'd
by
Garay
,
and
Mistress
Rufina
,
who
had
a
great
desire
to
see
the
Wounded
man
.
They
came
to
him
,
and
as
soon
as
the
Doctor
had
receiv'd
his
Confession
,
and
given
him
Absolution
,
he
lost
his
Speech
,
being
supported
by
Garay
.
The
Doctor
return'd
to
the
Coach
,
and
having
called
several
times
upon
Rufina
,
who
pretended
she
could
not
get
away
Garay
,
the
Coach-man
perceiving
it
began
to
grow
dark
,
put
on
the
Horses
,
having
sent
them
word
what
Inn
they
should
take
up
.
Rufina
was
much
troubled
to
see
the
Coach
gone
,
having
left
her
and
Garay
behind
,
charitably
exhorting
the
Dying
person
to
recommend
himself
as
much
as
he
could
to
the
mercy
of
God
;
but
he
was
so
far
gone
,
that
,
to
spare
them
further
Exhortation
,
he
gave
up
the
Ghost
.
They
were
much
troubled
what
they
should
do
with
the
Body
,
when
certain
Officers
of
Justice
came
in
,
who
,
having
at
a
distance
seen
the
Dead
person
in
the
Arms
of
Garay
,
and
a
Woman
standing
by
,
and
had
notice
before
that
two
Men
were
seen
going
out
of
the
City
,
with
a
design
to
fight
a
Duel
,
presently
imagin'd
,
that
Garay
was
one
of
them
,
and
consequently
the
Murtherer
of
the
other
;
upon
which
presumption
,
he
was
sent
to
Prison
,
and
order
given
the
Jaylor
to
put
him
fast
enough
.
Rufina
had
more
favour
,
being
confin'd
in
the
House
of
one
of
the
Officers
,
who
was
to
have
a
care
to
her
forth-coming
.
They
both
us'd
all
the
arguments
they
could
to
clear
themselves
,
from
having
any
thing
to
do
with
the
Murther
,
alledging
upon
what
occasion
they
came
to
the
Body
.
But
their
own
words
would
not
be
taken
,
and
it
was
presum'd
the
Duel
had
been
upon
the
accompt
of
Rufina
The
Judge
order'd
her
to
be
brought
to
his
own
House
to
be
further
examin'd
,
which
was
accordingly
done
.
When
she
came
thither
,
there
were
in
the
Room
several
Gentlemen
,
and
among
others
a
Genoese
,
a
very
rich
Merchant
,
whom
some
business
of
his
own
had
brought
thither
.
They
had
no
sooner
seen
Rufina
,
but
they
all
admir'd
her
Beauty
and
the
Majesty
of
her
Air
,
but
the
most
satisfy'd
of
any
was
the
Genoese
,
who
,
to
give
him
his
due
,
was
of
a
very
amorous
constitution
.
Rufina
was
extreamly
troubled
that
such
an
affront
should
be
done
her
by
the
way
,
as
perceiving
that
if
they
were
staid
the
next
day
,
they
should
lose
the
opportunity
of
continuing
their
journey
.
The
Judge
put
several
Questions
to
her
,
concerning
the
Duel
,
and
the
Gentleman's
Death
;
whereto
she
answered
,
that
she
knew
nothing
of
it
,
that
she
was
coming
in
the
Sevil-Coach
,
to
go
for
Madrid
,
accompany'd
by
some
other
Persons
then
in
the
Inn
,
whom
she
named
;
That
as
the
Coach
pass'd
by
,
a
certain
Person
,
who
had
been
Wounded
upon
the
High-way
,
not
far
from
them
,
call'd
out
for
some
body
to
receive
his
Confession
,
and
that
a
Priest
who
was
with
them
in
the
Coach
,
went
out
to
do
it
,
with
whom
also
she
went
out
of
curiosity
,
accompany'd
by
an
Uncle
of
hers
,
who
came
along
with
her
.
They
ordered
,
in
regard
it
was
grown
late
,
to
adjourn
the
business
till
the
next
day
,
that
a
more
exact
enquiry
might
be
made
into
it
,
and
,
in
the
mean
time
,
that
all
who
came
along
with
the
Coach
,
should
not
stir
from
Corduba
,
without
permission
.
This
done
,
Rufina
was
brought
back
to
the
Officer's
House
,
where
she
was
to
continue
that
night
.
The
Genoese
,
who
liv'd
not
far
from
it
,
accompany'd
her
;
but
though
he
had
liv'd
at
a
far
greater
distance
,
he
would
have
thought
it
no
great
way
to
wait
on
a
Lady
,
with
whom
he
was
already
over
head
and
ears
in
Love
.
Taking
leave
of
her
at
the
Officer's
house
,
he
proffer'd
her
all
the
Services
lay
in
his
power
,
for
which
she
thanked
him
,
yet
taking
it
for
no
more
than
a
Complement
.
The
Vexation
she
conceiv'd
at
her
being
thus
unexpectedly
staid
,
brought
her
into
some
fits
of
a
Feaver
,
the
first
,
of
a
Tertian
,
which
she
afterwards
fell
into
.
The
next
day
,
all
the
persons
,
who
came
in
the
Coach
,
being
examin'd
,
gave
the
same
account
as
Rufina
had
done
before
,
whereupon
Garay
was
set
at
Liberty
.
Other
witnesses
also
who
knew
somewhat
concerning
the
Duel
,
were
heard
,
and
gave
the
Judges
a
perfect
knowledge
of
the
Murther
.
Garay
went
immediately
to
visit
Rufina
,
expressing
himself
extreamly
troubled
at
her
indisposition
;
he
did
all
he
could
to
cheer
her
up
,
that
they
might
prosecute
their
Journey
:
but
the
Physitian
,
who
had
visited
her
,
advis'd
her
not
to
remove
thence
,
till
she
had
recover'd
her
Feaver
,
and
told
her
,
that
she
could
not
travel
any
further
,
without
hazard
of
her
Life
;
which
being
so
,
the
Coach-man
was
forc'd
to
leave
them
behind
,
but
they
were
adjudg'd
to
defray
the
charges
of
their
stay
,
and
he
to
deliver
up
what
they
had
in
the
Coach
.
The
Genoese
came
often
to
see
the
fair
Traveller
,
at
the
Officer's
house
,
and
began
to
treat
her
very
nobly
,
an
humour
the
more
remarkable
in
him
,
who
,
for
sordid
niggardliness
might
be
compared
to
the
covetous
Marquina
;
but
Love
,
though
but
a
small
Deity
,
yet
many
times
does
very
great
miracles
,
turning
Avarice
into
Prodigality
,
and
Cow●rdice
into
Courage
.
Rufina
kept
her
Bed
fifteen
days
,
during
which
time
,
she
was
constantly
visited
by
Signor
Octavio
,
(
so
was
called
the
amorous
Genoese
)
and
after
the
Visit
,
came
in
a
Servant
with
a
treat
of
Sweet-meats
,
and
Wild-fowl
,
which
the
Officer
and
his
Wife
were
glad
to
see
,
for
the
best
share
fell
to
them
.
At
last
,
the
Lady
,
with
her
Health
,
recover'd
also
her
good
Complexion
,
and
her
Beauty
,
and
the
Genoese
continuing
his
civilities
,
proffer'd
her
a
House
with
a
fair
Garden
,
which
he
had
on
the
side
of
the
pleasant
River
Quadalguemir
.
Garay
,
whom
she
called
her
Uncle
,
advis'd
her
not
to
refuse
that
proffer
,
for
he
had
discover'd
the
Man
to
be
extreamly
in
Love
with
her
,
that
he
was
very
Rich
,
and
that
they
might
get
as
much
out
of
the
Genoese
,
as
they
had
out
of
the
covetous
Marquina
.
Rufina
accepted
the
proffer
,
and
set
things
in
order
to
go
to
the
Genoese's
,
and
to
continue
there
till
she
had
recover'd
her self
so
well
,
as
that
she
might
prosecute
her
Journey
.
The
Genoese
would
not
have
it
known
at
Corduba
,
that
he
had
brought
her
to
his
Country-house
,
to
prevent
peoples
talk
,
and
other
inconveniences
that
might
have
ensu'd
.
So
that
,
with
the
consent
of
Rufina
,
he
gave
out
,
that
she
had
left
the
City
in
order
to
the
prosecution
of
her
Voyage
.
Accordingly
,
there
were
two
Mules
brought
for
her
and
Garay
,
and
two
others
to
carry
their
Luggage
,
and
having
left
Corduba
,
towards
the
Evening
,
to
blind
the
eyes
of
the
inquisitive
,
they
kept
on
their
way
towards
Madrid
:
but
having
Rid
out
about
half
a
League
,
they
turn'd
back
again
,
and
took
up
their
quarters
at
Signor
Octavio's
,
which
was
not
above
two
flight
shots
from
the
City
.
There
he
expected
her
,
with
a
magnificent
Supper
,
which
he
had
provided
.
Here
the
Genoese
discover'd
his
Love
to
her
more
freely
than
he
had
done
before
.
He
was
a
person
of
about
forty
years
of
Age
,
of
a
good
Manly
countenance
,
having
buried
his
Wife
some
two
years
before
,
by
whom
he
had
had
no
Children
.
He
was
a
whole-sale
Merchant
,
and
traded
in
all
sorts
of
Commodities
,
insomuch
that
all
the
other
Merchants
,
not
onely
of
the
City
,
but
also
of
other
places
thereabouts
came
to
him
,
for
he
held
correspondences
in
all
parts
.
He
was
a
very
thrifty
person
,
nay
,
to
give
him
his
due
character
,
I
should
use
other
expressions
.
He
had
some
yearly
Revenue
,
besides
twenty
thousand
Crowns
in
ready
Money
,
and
sixty
thousand
in
Credit
,
and
his
own
Trading
,
which
was
very
great
.
He
was
a
great
Student
,
and
had
studied
at
Pavia
and
Bologna
,
before
he
became
Heir
to
his
Brother
,
who
Dy'd
a
very
Rich
man
in
Spain
,
and
that
Inheritance
it
was
,
that
occasion'd
his
Marriage
at
Corduba
.
He
had
so
passionate
an
affection
for
Rufina
,
that
he
used
all
the
ways
he
could
imagine
to
insinuate
himself
into
her
favour
.
Upon
that
accompt
it
was
that
he
proffer'd
her
the
use
of
his
Country-house
,
to
take
the
Air
,
and
recover
her
Indisposition
,
conceiving
,
that
,
being
at
his
own
House
,
it
would
be
the
more
easie
for
him
to
compass
his
desires
.
She
had
been
told
by
Garay
,
that
this
Merchant
was
a
well-feather'd
Fowl
,
and
might
be
easily
pluck'd
,
and
since
this
good
Luck
had
fallen
to
them
by
chance
,
they
should
make
the
best
advantage
they
could
of
it
.
That
night
,
they
onely
Supp'd
,
and
every
one
went
to
his
rest
,
for
it
was
very
late
.
The
Genoese
made
as
if
he
would
have
returned
to
the
City
,
and
lye
there
;
but
his
Servants
,
whom
he
had
before
instructed
,
persuaded
him
not
to
go
abroad
at
that
unseasonable
time
of
the
Night
,
for
fear
of
meeting
with
any
Thieves
:
besides
,
there
being
a
Press
in
the
City
,
many
young
Men
presum'd
to
do
mischief
in
the
Night
,
and
robbed
all
they
met
.
At
last
,
being
persuaded
not
to
stir
out
,
he
was
glad
to
pass
away
some
part
of
the
Night
in
discoursing
with
Rufina
,
and
being
got
to
Bed
,
his
business
was
to
consider
,
by
what
means
,
and
with
least
charge
,
he
might
obtain
his
desires
of
her
.
Several
things
came
into
his
mind
,
but
the
easiest
he
could
find
,
suitably
to
his
humour
,
was
to
forget
her
,
and
never
think
of
her
any
more
;
for
he
knew
the
Age
we
live
in
to
be
such
,
that
it
is
a
miracle
to
get
any
kindness
in
Love
,
without
Liberality
.
The
next
morning
he
commanded
somewhat
should
be
made
for
her
break-fast
,
not
imagining
she
was
up
:
But
when
word
was
brought
him
that
she
was
out
of
Bed
,
the
Genoese
would
needs
go
into
her
Chamber
,
to
chide
her
for
rising
so
soon
,
and
by
that
means
to
see
whether
Rufina's
beauty
were
any
way
oblig'd
to
artifice
.
He
found
her
kembing
her
head
,
and
so
he
had
a
full
sight
of
her
hair
,
which
was
of
a
great
length
,
and
of
a
Chestnut
colour
.
The
Genoese
gave
God
thanks
,
who
,
with
so
many
other
perfections
,
had
bestow'd
on
her
such
an
excellent
Head
of
hair
:
but
he
was
much
more
astonish'd
,
when
,
upon
her
dividing
them
into
two
parts
,
to
make
him
an
answer
,
he
saw
her
Face
,
as
beautiful
as
it
had
appear'd
to
him
when
she
went
to
bed
;
a
thing
able
to
enflame
a
person
less
enclin'd
to
Love
and
more
to
Avarice
than
he
was
,
inasmuch
as
there
is
not
a
greater
charm
,
to
secure
a
Lover's
heart
,
than
to
see
that
the
beauty
of
his
Mistress
is
natural
,
and
scorns
to
borrow
any
thing
of
Art
.
Rufina
indeed
was
not
much
troubled
to
look
after
waters
,
paints
,
pomatums
,
unguents
,
and
such
things
,
wherewith
such
women
,
who
stand
in
need
of
them
,
hasten
on
their
age
with
their
wrinkles
,
and
lose
their
youth
ere
they
are
aware
.
She
onely
wash'd
her self
in
fair
water
,
and
needed
no
other
vermilion
to
heighten
the
beauty
of
her
face
,
than
that
of
her
own
lively
complexion
.
The
Merchant
ask'd
whether
she
would
be
pleas'd
to
see
his
Garden
?
She
made
answer
,
that
she
was
extremely
oblig'd
to
him
for
the
trouble
he
gave
himself
to
divert
her
;
and
to
satissie
him
how
kindly
she
took
that
favour
at
his
hands
,
she
went
along
with
him
just
as
she
was
,
without
putting
up
her
hair
,
which
hanging
down
over
her
shoulders
,
added
much
to
her
beauty
,
and
it
is
not
much
to
be
doubted
,
but
she
had
a
design
in
it
.
She
went
down
with
this
new
Gallant
of
hers
,
who
thought
it
an
extraordinary
pleasure
to
have
her
by
the
hand
;
and
in
that
posture
she
saw
the
whole
Garden
,
seeming
to
be
much
taken
with
the
delightfulness
of
it
.
Having
recreated
her self
with
him
,
till
the
Sun
Sun
began
to
be
somewhat
hot
,
she
return'd
into
the
house
,
and
broke
her
fast
,
after
which
,
having
discours'd
of
several
things
,
she
desir'd
to
see
the
whole
house
.
The
amorous
Genoese
desiring
nothing
so
much
as
that
she
might
see
his
wealth
,
shews
her
a
great
number
of
excellent
Pictures
,
done
by
the
best
Painters
in
Europe
,
some
very
rich
pieces
of
Tapestry
,
Cabinets
of
Ebony
,
of
several
fashions
,
embroider'd
Beds
,
and
all
sorts
of
Houshold-stuff
of
great
value
.
In
a
word
,
there
wanted
not
ought
of
those
things
requisite
for
the
furnishing
of
a
house
fit
for
a
Nobleman
.
Having
seen
all
the
rooms
,
he
open'd
a
curious
Closet
,
near
which
there
was
a
little
Oratory
,
and
in
that
Closet
there
were
a
great
many
pieces
of
Painting
,
done
at
Rome
,
of
extraordinary
value
,
Agnus-Dei's
of
gold
and
silver
gilt
,
and
Flowers
,
done
as
near
the
life
as
could
be
imagin'd
.
The
Closet
was
full
of
Books
,
very
richly
bound
,
and
neatly
dispos'd
into
gilt
Drawers
.
Garay
,
who
was
a
curious
person
,
and
had
read
much
,
was
looking
very
earnestly
on
the
Titles
of
the
Books
,
which
were
in
one
Drawer
,
and
having
put
that
into
its
place
,
he
took
out
another
,
wherein
there
were
others
very
curiously
bound
,
but
had
no
Titles
on
the
backs
.
Garay
opens
one
of
them
,
and
finds
the
Author
of
it
to
be
Arnaldus
de
Villa
Nova
,
and
near
that
were
the
works
of
Rosino
,
Alquindus
,
and
Raymundus
Lullius
.
The
Merchant
perceiving
him
so
taken
up
with
the
perusal
of
those
Books
,
ask'd
him
what
he
look'd
on
so
attentively
.
I
find
here
,
Sir
,
replies
Garay
,
a
great
many
Books
of
Chymistry
,
and
,
from
the
curiosity
I
observe
in
your
collection
of
Treatises
of
that
kind
,
I
infer
,
that
you
have
studied
that
Science
.
'T
is
true
,
says
the
Genoese
,
I
have
spent
some
time
in
the
perusal
of
those
Authors
;
but
how
far
,
I
pray
,
are
you
acquainted
with
them
?
Onely
so
far
,
replies
the
other
,
that
I
have
spent
the
best
part
of
my
life
in
that
study
.
Nay
then
,
says
the
Genoese
,
you
must
needs
be
a
very
great
Chymist
.
I
am
not
to
acknowledge
what
I
am
,
replies
Garay
,
we
shall
talk
another
time
of
these
things
more
at
large
;
for
the
present
,
I
shall
onely
tell
you
,
that
,
besides
these
Authors
,
I
have
read
all
I
could
ever
meet
with
that
treated
of
this
Science
.
I
have
turn'd
over
the
works
of
Avicenna
,
Albertus
Magnus
,
Terno
,
Pythagoras
;
the
Secrets
of
Calidus
,
the
Book
of
the
Allegory
of
Morillus
,
that
of
the
Secret
Stone
,
and
that
entituled
,
De
tribus
verbis
;
besides
many
Manuscripts
,
which
I
never
shew'd
any
man
.
The
Genoese
was
almost
out
of
of
himself
for
joy
to
hear
these
things
.
I
am
extremely
glad
,
said
he
to
him
,
that
this
Science
pleases
you
,
for
I
have
a
particular
inclination
for
it
.
I
know
it
very
well
,
replies
Garay
,
(
which
he
said
,
having
already
resolv'd
how
to
put
a
slur
upon
him
)
but
in
regard
I
place
a
great
confidence
in
you
,
I
will
tell
you
a
thing
in
your
ear
,
which
you
will
be
much
astonish'd
at
.
It
is
this
(
whispering
him
in
the
ear
)
that
my
Niece
knows
,
without
any
study
,
in
a
manner
as
much
as
I
do
of
this
Art
,
and
is
very
fortunate
in
the
practick
part
of
it
,
as
you
shall
see
by
experience
.
But
I
entreat
you
not
to
speak
to
her
of
it
at
this
time
,
for
she
would
not
have
it
known
to
any
,
nay
would
not
take
it
well
.
Garay
could
not
have
pitch'd
upon
a
more
likely
way
to
bring
the
Genoese
into
the
gin
;
for
his
avarice
was
such
,
that
he
would
have
parted
with
his
Soul
to
find
out
the
Philosopher's
stone
,
hoping
,
if
he
once
got
that
secret
,
ever
afterwards
to
swim
in
gold
.
Rufina
busied
her self
at
the
other
end
of
the
Closet
,
while
Garay
made
this
discourse
to
the
Genoese
,
and
was
looking
upon
some
other
curious
and
pleasant
Books
,
for
there
were
of
all
sorts
.
Yet
was
she
not
so
attentive
,
but
she
heard
somewhat
of
Garay's
discourse
,
concerning
Chymistry
,
and
perceiv'd
the
Merchant
was
much
taken
with
it
.
The
truth
is
,
Garay
had
some
knowledge
in
that
Science
,
and
that
he
had
spent
a
considerable
sum
of
mony
,
to
find
out
the
Philosopher's
Stone
,
which
though
many
had
sought
,
yet
could
not
any
affirm
they
had
met
with
it
.
The
success
he
had
had
in
that
business
onely
satisfi'd
him
of
their
folly
,
who
spent
their
time
and
estates
in
so
ridiculous
a
disquisition
,
and
he
was
glad
to
have
met
with
such
an
opportunity
,
to
recover
some
part
of
the
mony
he
had
squander'd
away
therein
:
for
the
Genoese
,
crediting
what
was
told
him
by
Garay
,
imagin'd
himself
somewhat
above
a
Prince
.
He
told
him
,
that
,
in
that
very
house
,
he
had
all
things
requisite
to
make
the
experiment
,
and
thereupon
brought
him
into
a
room
full
of
Furnaces
,
Alembicks
,
Glasses
,
and
Crucibles
,
with
all
the
instruments
us'd
by
the
Chymists
,
and
good
store
of
char-coal
.
Garay
seeing
that
,
concluded
the
Merchant
would
be
easily
taken
,
and
what
made
him
the
more
confident
was
,
that
he
imagin'd
he
understood
all
those
Books
,
whereas
Garay
was
satisfi'd
he
knew
onely
so
much
of
them
as
would
serve
to
bring
him
into
the
noose
.
In
fine
,
they
gave
over
talking
of
it
any
further
at
that
time
,
though
the
Genoese
was
unwilling
to
quit
the
discourse
.
They
went
down
thence
into
a
ground-room
,
the
windows
whereof
look'd
into
the
fairest
part
of
the
Garden
,
where
dinner
expected
them
.
After
dinner
,
Garay
,
pretending
it
was
his
custom
to
take
a
nap
,
left
the
Merchant
alone
with
Rufina
,
to
whom
he
took
occasion
to
make
a
full
discovery
of
his
love
,
assuring
her
,
that
all
he
had
was
at
her
service
,
and
desiring
her
to
dispose
of
it
as
she
pleased
.
She
seem'd
to
entertain
the
proffers
of
his
affection
with
much
kindness
,
yet
at
that
time
she
onely
rais'd
him
into
a
sleight
hope
,
shewing
her self
very
pleasant
to
him
.
Having
seen
a
Lute
,
in
one
of
the
rooms
above-stairs
,
she
desir'd
it
might
be
brought
down
;
for
her
Musick
,
at
which
she
was
excellent
,
contributed
much
to
the
bringing
about
of
her
designs
.
The
Merchant
,
who
had
a
little
skill
at
that
Instrument
himself
,
was
very
glad
to
hear
that
she
us'd
it
,
and
caus'd
it
to
be
immediately
fetch'd
,
saying
that
his
deceased
wife
plaid
excellently
well
upon
it
,
and
that
about
a
sev'n-night
before
,
having
entertain'd
some
of
his
friends
with
a
Collation
,
they
had
set
it
in
tune
.
The
Lute
being
come
,
Rufina
began
to
play
,
and
made
it
appear
,
that
there
were
very
few
could
excel
her
at
that
Instrument
.
The
Genoese
was
astonish'd
at
her
dexterity
,
and
to
bring
him
absolutely
to
her
lure
,
she
sung
an
Air
to
it
,
but
with
such
a
grace
,
that
he
was
at
a
loss
,
whether
he
should
more
admire
her
hand
,
or
her
voice
.
The
truth
is
,
she
had
a
particular
excellency
in
both
,
so
that
his
excessive
commendations
of
them
,
were
not
so
full
of
flattery
as
might
be
expected
from
a
person
passionately
in
love
.
With
a
modest
blush
,
which
spread
it self
gently
over
her
face
(
a
thing
she
could
command
,
though
never
acquainted
with
shame
)
she
seem'd
to
express
a
certain
bashfulness
,
and
ere
it
was
quite
dispell'd
,
Signor
Octavio
,
said
she
to
him
,
what
I
have
done
was
onely
for
your
diversion
,
be
pleas'd
to
receive
it
with
some
regard
to
the
desire
I
had
to
endeavour
your
satisfaction
;
which
yet
I
have
not
done
without
much
temerity
,
before
a
person
of
so
delicate
an
ear
as
you
are
,
and
one
,
no
doubt
,
wont
to
hear
the
best
voices
in
the
world
.
I
never
heard
any
,
replies
Octavio
,
that
came
near
yours
,
and
therefore
I
beseech
you
,
let
not
your
modesty
cause
you
any
prejudice
;
nay
rather
be
proud
,
Madam
,
of
the
excellent
endowments
you
have
so
liberally
receiv'd
from
heaven
,
and
acknowledge
the
favours
it
hath
done
you
;
be
more
sensible
of
your
own
worth
,
and
think
my
approbation
below
it
;
and
yet
when
I
was
a
young
man
,
I
was
much
addicted
to
Musick
,
and
some
would
needs
persuade
me
that
my
time
was
well
bestow'd
in
it
.
I
must
confess
,
the
Spanish
Tongue
comes
not
so
naturally
to
me
as
the
Italian
,
the
graces
and
beauties
whereof
I
have
better
studied
upon
the
Theorbo
,
which
I
am
so
far
Master
of
,
as
in
some
measure
to
satisfie
the
hearer
.
Whereupon
perceiving
that
Rufina
would
have
laid
by
the
Lute
,
he
desir'd
her
to
make
use
of
it
a
little
longer
,
and
to
sing
one
Air
more
,
which
she
,
to
honour
him
,
did
.
Octavio
took
occasion
to
give
his
dear
Rufina
greater
commendations
for
the
excellency
of
her
voice
than
he
had
done
before
,
and
she
,
to
renew
her
thanks
to
him
,
for
the
favour
he
did
her
.
He
thought
it
time
to
give
her
leave
to
take
a
little
rest
,
and
he
went
himself
into
another
room
to
do
the
like
.
Garay
,
on
the
other
side
,
instead
of
sleeping
,
was
contriving
how
to
get
the
Philosopher's
stone
,
not
for
the
credulous
Genoese
,
but
out
of
him
.
He
had
so
far
persuaded
him
of
his
abilities
,
in
that
Science
,
that
he
desired
nothing
so
much
as
to
be
as
knowing
in
it
as
he
was
,
but
all
out
of
no
other
design
than
to
satisfie
his
own
insatiable
avarice
.
He
imagin'd
that
if
he
could
find
the
Philosopher's
Stone
(
a
Rock
rather
,
against
which
so
many
have
wrack'd
themselves
)
all
his
houshold-stuff
should
be
of
gold
,
that
he
should
become
a
Croesus
,
and
that
the
wealthiest
about
the
City
,
compar'd
to
him
,
would
be
little
better
than
beggars
.
Garay
had
also
a
long
discourse
with
Rufina
,
about
the
means
how
they
should
get
the
Gudgeon
into
the
net
:
he
gave
her
some
instructions
in
writing
,
that
the
Genoese
might
find
she
knew
something
of
the
Science
,
at
least
the
tearms
of
it
.
Rufina
got
them
by
heart
,
and
,
to
begin
the
cheat
,
Garay
ask'd
for
some
links
of
a
Gold-chain
she
had
brought
from
Sevil.
It
was
a
large
one
,
and
if
there
were
a
dozen
links
taken
from
it
,
they
would
not
have
been
miss'd
.
Being
come
into
the
City
,
he
goes
into
a
Gold-smith's
shop
to
melt
down
those
links
,
and
reduce
them
into
an
Ingot
,
which
he
brought
back
to
the
house
,
and
communicated
his
design
to
Rufina
.
Octavio
,
who
had
slept
all
this
while
as
soundly
as
if
he
had
not
been
in
love
,
comes
in
to
them
,
and
they
began
to
talk
of
several
things
,
far
from
having
any
relation
to
the
business
he
had
been
about
,
which
Garay
did
purposely
to
engage
the
other
to
fall
first
into
that
discourse
,
and
indeed
within
a
quarter
of
an
hour
,
he
was
gotten
into
the
subject
of
Chymistry
.
Garay
discours'd
of
it
after
the
rate
of
a
man
that
had
spent
his
whole
estate
in
the
work
;
insomuch
that
Octavio
was
astonish'd
thereat
,
for
though
he
pretended
much
skill
in
the
Science
,
yet
could
he
not
but
acknowledge
himself
much
inferiour
to
the
other
.
Garay
,
desirous
to
give
the
Merchant
all
the
satisfaction
he
could
desire
,
told
him
,
that
he
could
turn
what
Metall
he
pleas'd
into
gold
.
The
Genoese
was
ravish'd
at
the
proposal
,
and
earnestly
entreated
him
that
he
might
see
it
done
.
Garay
ask'd
him
whether
there
were
any
char-coal
in
the
house
;
the
Genoese
told
him
there
was
good
store
,
for
he
had
had
the
curiosity
to
make
some
trials
thereof
himself
.
They
went
up
both
into
the
room
where
they
had
been
before
,
and
finding
it
full
of
Furnaces
,
Creusets
,
Alembicks
,
and
other
Chymical
Instruments
,
Garay
said
to
him
,
Here
we
have
all
things
requisite
for
the
present
.
He
caus'd
some
fire
to
be
brought
,
and
having
put
a
little
Copper
into
a
Creuset
to
melt
,
the
Genoese
saw
it
melting
:
Garay
took
a
box
out
of
his
pocket
,
wherein
there
was
a
paper
full
of
powder
,
which
he
said
was
the
most
principal
ingredient
in
the
whole
work
.
He
put
it
into
the
Creuset
,
which
having
brought
as
cleaverly
as
he
could
to
a
window
,
he
pour'd
out
the
melted
Copper
,
and
put
the
Ingot
of
gold
into
its
place
,
and
when
he
had
cover'd
it
,
he
told
the
Genoese
,
that
it
should
not
be
stirr'd
thence
for
half
an
hour
.
That
time
they
spent
in
discoursing
of
several
things
in
Chymistry
,
wherein
Octavio
desir'd
to
make
some
further
progress
.
At
last
,
Garay
thought
it
time
to
shew
him
what
he
had
done
,
and
so
opening
the
Creuset
,
he
took
out
the
Ingot
and
shew'd
it
him
.
The
covetous
Miser
was
almost
out
of
himself
for
joy
to
see
it
,
though
he
were
not
fully
satisfi'd
of
its
being
perfect
gold
.
Garay
wish'd
him
to
have
it
tri'd
by
a
Goldsmith
;
which
trouble
he
would
needs
take
upon
himself
,
and
having
found
that
it
was
very
fine
gold
,
of
twenty
two
Carats
,
he
returns
extraordinarily
well
satisfi'd
.
While
he
was
gone
out
,
Garay
instructed
Rufina
,
how
to
effect
their
design
upon
Octavio
,
who
being
more
covetous
than
amorous
,
would
have
them
immediately
to
begin
the
great
work
of
finding
the
Philosopher's
Stone
.
He
promis'd
Garay
extraordinary
recompences
,
and
told
him
,
that
he
would
be
at
the
whole
charge
,
though
it
should
amount
to
twenty
thousand
Crowns
.
Garay
,
who
had
contriv'd
how
he
intended
to
gull
the
Merchant
,
return'd
this
Answer
to
the
great
proffers
he
had
made
him
.
Signor
Octavio
,
said
he
,
I
am
now
gon
almost
seven
years
beyond
the
grand
climacterical
year
of
my
life
,
which
is
as
much
as
to
tell
you
,
that
I
have
past
the
greatest
and
best
part
of
it
.
It
were
no
hard
matter
for
me
,
with
the
help
of
the
Science
I
am
now
Master
of
,
to
spend
the
little
which
is
yet
to
come
,
at
my
ease
,
and
it
may
be
more
plentifully
,
than
some
of
the
wealthiest
Grandees
of
Spain
;
and
that
I
can
be
without
any
man's
favour
or
assistance
,
I
think
you
may
have
observ'd
your self
.
And
in
regard
I
have
no
children
,
to
inherit
my
estate
,
which
,
I
thank
heaven
,
is
somewhat
considerable
also
in
Lands
,
the
main
concernment
I
have
in
this
world
,
is
to
look
after
this
young
Woman
,
my
Niece
.
She
is
already
but
too
rich
,
in
that
she
hath
all
I
have
,
though
her
Father
,
who
was
my
elder
Brother
,
left
her
no
mean
fortune
.
She
might
,
had
she
a
mind
to
it
,
be
as
nobly
married
as
she
was
before
,
for
her
late
husband
was
descended
from
the
noblest
houses
of
Andalusia
.
Nor
were
it
hard
for
me
to
add
to
her
wealth
,
you
know
it
;
but
such
is
my
confidence
in
you
,
that
I
will
tell
you
the
reason
why
I
do
not
.
That
I
am
the
ablest
Alchymist
in
all
Spain
,
is
known
to
many
,
which
being
also
come
to
the
ears
of
his
Majesty
,
I
am
sought
after
every
where
;
but
I
have
hitherto
had
the
happiness
to
keep
out
of
their
clutches
,
who
are
perpetually
emploi'd
to
find
me
out
,
having
spread
a
report
,
that
I
was
gone
●o●
England
.
It
is
not
out
of
any
contempt
of
the
honours
and
wealth
of
this
world
,
that
I
avoid
the
searches
of
those
,
whom
his
Majesty
hath
enjoyn'd
to
bring
me
to
him
,
but
out
of
this
consideration
,
that
I
would
not
purchase
any
favour
with
the
loss
of
my
liberty
,
for
I
must
expect
no
less
,
than
to
spend
the
rest
of
my
days
in
a
noble
kind
of
captivity
.
I
will
express
my self
more
clearly
to
you
.
His
Majesty
hath
at
the
present
very
great
Armies
a-foot
in
several
parts
,
which
put
him
to
a
vast
expence
,
such
as
his
own
Revenue
and
what
comes
from
the
Indies
are
not
able
to
defray
:
so
that
,
to
satisfie
his
ambition
,
he
is
forc'd
to
make
use
of
the
industry
of
his
Subjects
.
Now
were
it
my
sad
fortune
to
be
found
by
those
who
so
narrowly
search
after
me
,
the
King
,
knowing
that
,
with
the
assistance
of
my
Art
,
he
might
easily
recruit
the
charge
he
is
at
,
would
immediately
dispose
of
me
into
some
Fortress
,
where
being
confin'd
for
the
rest
of
my
days
,
I
should
be
perpetually
kept
at
work
,
to
augment
his
Treasures
,
and
supply
his
pressing
exigencies
.
I
should
not
think
it
much
to
do
it
once
or
twice
,
but
the
avarice
of
men
is
grown
to
that
heighth
,
that
they
are
not
satisfi'd
with
abundance
,
if
they
have
the
least
apprehension
,
that
the
source
of
it
may
ever
be
dried
up
.
This
is
the
true
reason
,
Signor
Octavio
,
which
obliges
me
to
keep
out
of
my
own
Country
,
and
to
play
least
in
sight
;
and
therefore
receive
what
I
have
told
you
as
a
great
secret
,
such
as
I
should
not
have
communicated
to
my
own
Brother
,
had
he
been
in
the
world
:
but
I
have
that
confidence
of
you
,
that
you
will
never
reveal
it
.
Octavio
return'd
Garay
his
most
affectionate
thanks
for
the
great
trust
he
repos'd
in
him
,
and
thought
himself
so
happy
in
the
discovery
he
had
made
to
him
,
that
he
conceiv'd
the
greatest
Nobles
might
justly
envy
him
.
His
Answer
to
him
,
was
,
that
the
grounds
and
motives
,
on
which
he
conceal'd
the
excellent
knowledge
he
had
acquir'd
,
were
just
and
rational
,
since
that
no
doubt
but
he
would
be
confin'd
,
though
for
no
other
reason
than
this
,
to
prevent
his
carrying
over
such
a
Secret
into
another
Country
,
to
serve
a
King
that
were
an
enemy
to
his
Catholick
Majesty
.
He
acknowledg'd
himself
infinitely
oblig'd
to
him
,
and
wish'd
it
were
in
his
power
to
serve
him
;
but
having
onely
the
wealth
he
was
possess'd
of
to
proffer
him
,
he
entreated
him
to
dispose
of
it
as
freely
as
if
it
were
his
own
,
and
since
he
had
shewn
him
a
trial
of
his
abilities
,
that
he
would
not
think
that
enough
,
but
ere
he
left
Corduba
,
give
him
such
further
instructions
,
as
,
being
observ'd
,
he
might
not
miscarry
in
the
great
work
.
Garay
promis'd
to
satisfie
his
desires
,
telling
him
withal
,
that
so
precious
a
thing
as
Gold
could
not
be
gotten
but
with
Gold
,
and
that
the
foundations
of
all
designs
require
charge
;
that
the
Philosopher's
Stone
could
not
be
found
without
cost
and
much
pains
;
that
if
he
were
resolv'd
,
he
should
attempt
the
doing
of
it
,
he
must
be
at
the
whole
charge
,
and
that
afterwards
the
profit
should
be
equally
divided
,
and
that
in
a
short
time
he
would
be
glutted
with
wealth
.
The
Genoese
,
ravish'd
at
that
proposal
,
proffer'd
to
spend
all
he
was
worth
upon
that
accompt
.
Rufina
promis'd
to
assist
them
.
Nay
,
says
Garay
to
her
,
there
is
such
a
necessity
of
your
assistance
;
that
we
shall
not
be
able
to
do
so
well
without
it
.
They
thereupon
resolv'd
,
that
within
two
days
they
should
begin
the
great
work
.
Garay
told
him
,
that
the
principal
of
the
divine
Elixir
,
(
so
the
Chymists
call
the
perfection
of
their
work
)
was
form'd
of
the
solidity
of
Mercury
,
and
other
things
which
he
nam'd
to
him
,
together
with
the
urine
and
excrement
of
a
red-hair'd
child
;
that
all
was
to
be
put
into
an
Alembick
,
with
powder
of
Aloes
,
the
infusion
of
Opium
,
Toads
grease
,
Arsenick
,
and
Salt-peter
.
But
he
hop'd
to
do
it
chiefly
with
the
urine
and
excrements
aforesaid
,
which
he
order'd
Octavio
by
all
means
to
procure
,
as
being
the
most
necessary
ingredient
of
all
.
He
promis'd
to
find
it
,
and
,
to
begin
the
work
,
the
Me●chant
deliver'd
him
five
hundred
Crowns
in
gold
,
to
buy
certain
precious
drugs
,
which
he
said
were
necessary
;
and
this
the
Genoese
did
the
more
willingly
,
as
well
out
of
the
confidence
he
had
to
receive
them
multipli'd
into
so
many
thousands
,
as
out
of
a
design
he
had
thought
on
the
night
before
,
of
making
Rufina
his
wife
,
and
by
that
means
assuring
himself
of
Garay
.
Whereupon
,
that
very
evening
after
supper
,
he
took
occasion
to
carry
Garay
along
with
him
into
the
Garden
,
and
acquainted
him
with
his
resolution
.
The
Alchymist
thought
it
a
good
way
to
further
his
work
,
and
accordingly
he
approv'd
of
his
intention
,
and
acknowledg'd
it
would
be
a
great
honour
to
his
Neece
to
meet
with
so
worthy
a
Person
;
but
that
there
was
one
Obstacle
to
be
first
removed
.
What
may
that
be
says
the
other
?
Garay
told
him
,
that
his
Neece
could
not
be
Married
,
till
a
Dispensation
were
first
obtained
from
Rome
,
in
regard
,
that
,
out
of
the
extraordinary
regret
she
conceiv'd
at
the
loss
of
her
late
Husband
,
she
made
a
Vow
to
enter
into
a
Religious
life
;
that
the
occasion
of
their
going
to
Madrid
,
was
to
receive
six
years
Arrerages
of
a
Rent
due
to
them
from
a
person
of
Quality
,
who
was
very
backward
in
paying
,
in
order
to
her
reception
into
a
Nunnery
;
but
that
as
soon
as
the
Dispensation
were
come
from
Rome
,
they
would
conclude
the
Marriage
,
which
he
doubted
not
but
she
would
accept
,
not
onely
out
of
the
compliance
she
had
ever
express'd
towards
him
,
but
also
out
of
this
consideration
,
that
she
was
to
match
her self
with
a
Person
inclin'd
to
the
study
of
a
Science
,
wherein
she
had
naturally
attain'd
so
great
perfection
.
Octavio
was
the
most
satisfy'd
Man
in
the
world
to
have
such
a
parcel
of
good
words
given
him
,
insomuch
that
from
that
very
hour
Garay
became
absolute
Master
of
all
he
was
possess'd
of
.
Garay
and
Rufina
having
conferr'd
notes
upon
this
new
Overture
,
were
more
confident
than
ever
,
to
compass
their
design
.
He
freely
laid
out
the
Money
receiv'd
of
Octavio
in
Drugges
,
persuading
him
they
were
not
to
be
had
under
such
and
such
rates
.
He
also
furnish'd
himself
with
new
Furnaces
,
Creusets
and
Alembicks
,
pretending
that
those
in
the
House
before
,
were
not
for
his
purpose
.
In
the
mean
time
,
the
silly
Merchant
was
enquiring
up
and
down
where
he
might
have
the
Urine
of
a
Red-headed
Child
,
which
he
had
much
ado
to
get
;
for
the
Mothers
fearing
it
was
to
be
us'd
in
some
operation
of
Witchcraft
,
would
not
easily
let
him
have
it
;
but
Money
is
omnipotent
,
and
can
do
any
thing
.
Garay
could
have
done
as
much
in
one
Day
as
in
a
hundred
,
as
to
the
performance
of
what
he
had
promis'd
,
but
the
poor
Merchant
must
be
fool'd
some
way
or
other
,
till
he
met
with
an
opportunity
to
smite
him
,
and
take
a
Dog's
leave
of
Corduba
,
with
as
much
as
he
could
shift
away
on
two
good
Horses
,
which
lay
Leger
in
a
secret
place
for
that
purpose
.
He
dispos'd
all
the
Distillations
into
the
Furnaces
,
in
the
presence
of
Octavio
;
he
bought
some
Metals
,
as
Brass
,
Copper
,
and
Tin
,
several
sorts
of
Salts
,
and
other
things
commonly
used
by
Chymists
;
and
setting
Fire
to
the
Furnaces
,
they
Distill'd
what
had
been
put
into
them
,
but
contributing
nothing
to
the
business
,
and
only
to
abuse
him
,
who
was
at
the
charge
of
all
the
Foolery
.
As
to
Octavio's
Love
,
he
was
much
better
treated
than
he
was
before
;
inasmuch
as
since
the
proposal
of
Marriage
,
Rufina
,
the
better
to
carry
on
the
main
design
,
grew
more
kind
to
him
,
especially
in
Garay's
absence
,
which
the
besotted
Cocks-comb
was
so
transported
with
,
that
he
knew
not
whether
his
head
or
his
heels
were
on
the
ground
.
About
this
time
Octavio
receiv'd
a
Bill
of
exchange
of
a
considerable
Sum
,
to
be
paid
within
twenty
days
after
sight
.
This
,
with
the
breaking
of
some
of
his
Debtors
in
other
Countries
,
put
him
into
some
fear
of
doing
the
like
,
if
his
attempts
in
Chymistry
prov'd
not
successful
.
But
to
prevent
all
inconveniences
,
he
did
what
most
of
his
Quality
and
Kidney
are
wont
to
do
,
who
being
upon
the
point
of
breaking
,
secure
what
they
can
of
their
Estates
,
that
they
may
afterwards
the
more
commodiously
remove
into
some
other
Country
.
So
our
Merchant
,
finding
himself
within
some
distance
of
breaking
,
provided
for
the
misfortune
,
in
case
it
should
happen
,
and
so
promoted
the
mischievous
plot
of
Garay
and
Rufina
,
whom
he
truly
acquainted
how
affairs
stood
with
him
,
as
if
they
had
been
his
most
faithful
Relations
.
Garay
had
left
in
the
custody
of
a
certain
friend
of
the
Merchants
,
a
good
sum
of
Money
,
and
some
Jewels
of
great
Value
,
with
order
they
should
not
be
deliver'd
to
any
but
one
of
them
two
.
Besides
which
,
he
brought
some
to
his
Country-house
,
and
hid
them
in
a
secret
place
in
the
presence
of
Rufina
,
of
whom
he
had
a
confidence
,
as
if
she
had
really
been
his
Wife
.
Garay
,
who
was
still
busie
about
his
Distillations
,
put
him
into
good
hope
,
that
within
twenty
days
he
should
see
the
end
of
the
great
work
,
and
his
House
full
of
Gold
,
to
recover
the
loss
he
had
receiv'd
by
his
Debtors
.
About
this
time
,
there
happen'd
a
business
which
oblig'd
Octavio
to
take
a
Journey
,
to
advise
with
a
Correspondent
of
his
,
how
to
prevent
the
misfortune
he
saw
coming
upon
him
.
Garay
and
Rufina
being
entrusted
with
the
House
,
thought
it
a
fair
opportunity
to
dislodge
,
and
make
the
best
they
could
of
the
present
game
.
They
secur'd
all
the
Money
and
Jewels
they
could
come
at
,
and
left
the
Plate
and
some
other
things
,
they
could
not
so
conveniently
carry
away
,
behind
them
,
though
with
some
regret
,
thinking
it
more
prudence
to
make
a
safe
retreat
with
what
were
considerable
,
than
to
hazard
all
,
by
grasping
at
too
much
.
Having
therefore
loaden
themselves
with
what
was
most
pretious
,
they
left
the
Furnaces
,
and
the
Alembicks
,
made
the
Philosopher's
stone
at
the
cost
of
the
absent
Merchant
,
and
took
Horse
while
the
people
of
the
House
were
fast
asleep
.
They
took
their
way
towards
Malaga
,
and
travell'd
all
night
,
having
about
them
above
six
thousand
Crowns
in
Money
and
Jewels
,
and
left
,
upon
a
Table
near
the
Furnaces
,
a
paper
of
Verses
,
to
hasten
the
credulous
Merchant
to
hang
himself
.
Two
days
after
their
departure
he
returns
home
,
very
ill
satisfy'd
with
his
Journey
,
in
that
he
had
not
done
any
thing
in
the
business
which
occasion'd
it
.
All
the
hope
he
now
had
was
in
his
Uncle
,
Garay
,
imagining
,
by
his
means
,
he
should
yet
be
able
to
shew
his
head
,
and
not
onely
keep
up
his
Reputation
,
but
also
be
Richer
than
ever
he
had
been
,
such
a
strange
Mist
had
the
Witchcraft
of
Chymistry
cast
before
his
Eyes
.
He
came
not
to
his
Country-house
till
after
Night
,
where
he
found
the
Servant
whom
he
had
left
with
Garay
and
Rufina
,
for
the
rest
of
his
people
were
in
the
City
.
The
Servant
receiv'd
him
with
a
sad
countenance
,
and
being
got
up
stairs
,
he
ask'd
him
(
fearing
somewhat
were
amiss
)
where
his
Guests
were
,
of
whom
the
Servant
could
give
him
no
account
,
as
having
not
seen
them
when
they
went
out
,
and
could
onely
say
,
that
,
two
Nights
before
,
they
had
lock'd
him
into
the
Room
where
he
lay
,
which
he
had
been
forc'd
to
break
open
,
because
he
could
not
otherwise
get
out
.
They
search'd
up
and
down
,
and
found
that
the
Chests
had
been
opened
,
and
all
the
Money
convey'd
away
.
This
was
not
the
worst
the
Merchant
feared
,
but
that
they
had
also
been
with
him
,
in
whose
custody
he
had
greater
summs
of
Money
,
and
the
most
pretious
of
his
Houshold-stuff
.
It
being
too
late
to
make
any
enquiry
that
Night
,
he
thought
it
his
best
course
to
go
to
Bed
;
but
desirous
to
visit
the
Furnaces
once
more
,
he
finds
on
the
Table
the
Paper
,
left
there
by
Garay
,
which
having
open'd
,
he
found
in
it
these
Lines
.
Signor
Octavio
,
IT
is
the
just
reward
of
those
who
attempt
things
impossible
,
to
be
shamefully
disappointed
.
Many
of
your
Profession
have
been
ruin'd
by
their
Faith
,
in
things
relating
to
their
Trade
;
it
was
therefore
but
fit
you
should
repent
your
Credulity
,
in
a
business
you
understood
not
.
It
was
indeed
impardonable
,
to
expect
to
see
that
done
by
any
Man
,
in
a
few
days
,
which
the
Sun
,
who
hath
a
greater
power
over
the
Metal
you
were
so
covetous
of
,
cannot
perfect
under
four
or
five
hundred
years
.
Your
loss
,
I
must
confess
is
great
,
but
you
have
this
comfortable
consideration
,
that
you
may
now
defie
Chymistry
,
and
all
its
cheating
Professors
,
to
shew
you
such
another
trick
as
we
have
done
.
But
,
to
avoid
all
future
Temptation
,
take
this
hearty
advice
from
two
dear
Friends
of
yours
;
put
all
the
fine
Treatises
you
have
of
that
pernicious
Art
into
your
Furnaces
,
and
,
having
set
Fire
to
them
and
your
House
together
,
fairly
run
away
by
the
light
of
it
.
The
poor
Merchant
had
no
sooner
read
them
,
ere
he
was
convinc'd
,
they
were
his
kind
Guests
who
had
robb'd
him
,
and
extracted
what
he
had
in
his
Chests
and
Cabinets
with
more
ease
than
he
had
infus'd
it
into
them
.
How
he
spent
the
Night
,
is
onely
to
be
imagin'd
,
being
just
upon
the
point
of
Breaking
,
and
not
knowing
any
means
to
remedy
it
.
All
the
hope
he
had
,
was
,
that
the
Money
and
Jewels
which
he
had
left
in
a
friend's
hands
,
were
safe
enough
;
nay
he
despair'd
not
to
find
out
those
,
who
had
done
him
the
mischief
.
He
turn'd
himself
from
one
side
to
another
,
not
out
of
any
disturbance
,
occasion'd
by
his
Love
to
the
subtle
Rufina
,
(
for
that
was
absolutely
lost
with
his
Money
)
but
that
he
had
been
so
basely
trapan'd
by
a
beggarly
Rascal
.
Then
did
he
begin
to
curse
Chymistry
,
and
all
the
Authors
that
ever
writ
of
it
,
whereas
he
should
rather
have
given
God
thanks
,
who
,
by
the
cheat
which
was
put
upon
him
,
had
prevented
the
prosecution
of
his
design
,
which
might
have
absolutely
ruin'd
him
.
As
soon
as
he
perceiv'd
any
appearance
of
Day
,
he
got
up
,
and
went
into
the
City
,
to
his
House
,
whom
he
had
entrusted
with
the
keeping
of
his
Money
and
other
things
.
He
ask'd
him
whether
Garay
had
been
with
him
?
the
other
answered
that
he
had
,
and
had
taken
away
whatever
he
had
in
his
custody
,
and
that
therein
he
had
follow'd
his
own
orders
.
That
word
struck
him
almost
Dead
;
nay
the
resentments
he
express'd
of
that
loss
were
so
great
,
that
if
the
other
had
not
known
the
cause
of
it
,
he
would
have
thought
him
out
of
his
wits
.
He
comforted
him
the
best
he
could
,
and
told
him
,
that
his
onely
course
was
to
make
a
speedy
search
for
the
Robbers
.
He
did
all
he
could
to
that
purpose
,
sending
Officers
and
others
several
ways
;
but
that
which
Garay
and
Rufina
had
taken
was
so
extraordinary
,
that
they
could
never
meet
with
them
.
So
they
return'd
to
Corduba
,
to
be
paid
for
their
fruitless
pursuit
,
by
him
who
had
sent
them
,
which
,
as
his
affairs
stood
then
,
added
not
a
little
to
his
affliction
.
This
adventure
was
soon
known
all
over
the
City
;
and
the
Genoese
,
not
able
to
accept
of
another
Bill
of
exchange
that
had
been
sent
him
,
was
forc'd
to
absent
himself
,
and
to
return
to
Genua
,
with
what
he
could
make
by
the
sale
of
his
Goods
.
By
this
means
he
turn'd
Bankrupt
,
and
defy'd
his
Creditors
,
who
could
not
find
any
thing
he
had
left
behind
him
.
The
same
thing
happens
many
times
to
those
,
who
,
with
small
Estates
,
engage
themselves
in
too
great
affairs
,
presuming
upon
this
,
that
,
if
it
comes
to
the
worst
,
they
can
secure
themselves
by
an
escape
.
The
end
of
the
second
Book
.
LA
PICARA
,
OR
The
Triumphs
of
Female
Subtilty
.
The
Third
Book
.
GAray
and
Rufina
rode
on
a
good
round
pace
,
but
kept
in
obscure
ways
,
and
,
in
four
Nights
,
they
would
not
take
up
their
Lodging
in
any
Town
or
Village
,
but
in
open
Fields
,
for
fear
of
being
surpriz'd
by
the
Officers
,
whom
they
doubted
not
but
the
Genoese
had
sent
to
enquire
after
them
.
They
had
shifted
their
Cloaths
,
and
having
disguis'd
themselves
as
well
as
they
could
,
they
carefully
avoided
all
those
places
where
they
had
the
least
apprehension
they
might
be
known
.
It
was
Garay's
charge
to
provide
Victuals
;
and
being
about
the
beginning
of
the
Spring
,
they
found
it
no
great
inconvenience
,
to
lye
abroad
in
the
open
air
.
They
got
into
a
thick
Wood
just
as
the
Sun
was
ready
to
set
,
and
fearing
that
a
thick
Cloud
,
under
which
they
were
,
might
break
upon
them
with
too
great
violence
,
as
there
was
some
likelihood
,
by
reason
of
the
great
Thunder
and
Lightning
that
had
gone
before
,
they
went
into
the
thickest
part
of
it
,
the
better
to
secure
themselves
.
Other
Travellers
,
upon
the
same
apprehension
,
had
taken
refuge
at
a
place
,
near
that
where
Garay
and
Rufina
were
.
The
noise
they
made
in
discoursing
,
rais'd
in
Garay
a
curiosity
to
come
and
over-hear
what
they
said
;
and
through
the
means
of
thick
Bushes
,
being
come
near
them
,
he
perceiv'd
they
were
three
Men
,
one
whereof
,
speaking
to
the
others
,
said
;
If
this
Tempest
lasts
all
night
,
I
doubt
we
shall
be
disappointed
of
our
design
.
I
fear
me
so
too
,
replies
another
,
and
no
doubt
but
the
Hermit
of
la
Serre
will
be
out
of
all
patience
that
he
hath
expected
us
so
long
.
O
that
Brother
Crispin
is
an
excellent
fellow
,
says
another
of
them
:
his
Religious
frock
covers
a
great
deal
of
mischief
,
and
he
is
so
insinuating
in
his
behaviour
,
that
he
is
very
much
in
their
favour
,
who
bestow'd
the
Hermitage
upon
him
.
He
is
so
transcendent
an
Hypocrite
,
replies
another
,
that
he
is
able
to
blind
all
the
World
:
he
hath
the
reputation
of
a
virtuous
person
all
over
the
Country
,
and
there
is
not
within
twenty
Leagues
about
a
more
consummate
Villain
than
he
is
.
I
have
been
acquainted
with
him
these
twelve
years
,
says
the
Second
,
and
his
profession
hath
been
to
receive
Thieves
,
and
their
Booties
;
and
he
hath
been
so
fortunate
as
never
to
be
suspected
Guilty
of
any
crime
of
that
kind
,
whereas
so
many
other
poor
Rogues
have
been
taken
and
truss'd
up
,
at
the
first
falling
into
the
hands
of
Justice
.
It
must
needs
be
acknowledg'd
,
says
another
,
that
his
Hermitage
is
a
very
convenient
place
for
persons
of
our
profession
,
and
the
Cellar
he
hath
made
under
it
,
is
such
a
place
,
as
the
Divel
himself
would
never
find
out
.
We
could
never
have
met
with
a
more
secure
place
,
to
put
up
the
fifteen
hundred
Crowns
we
yesterday
disburthen'd
the
Merchant
of
.
'T
was
the
most
considerable
Robbery
that
hath
been
committed
in
this
Country
of
a
long
time
.
If
it
would
but
hold
up
a
little
,
says
he
who
had
spoken
first
,
I
hope
to
make
as
good
a
Prey
,
yet
before
it
be
Day
.
They
thereupon
advised
concerning
the
means
how
to
execute
their
design
.
Garay
miss'd
not
a
word
of
all
they
had
spoken
;
the
Country
he
was
acquainted
with
as
well
as
if
he
had
been
Born
in
it
,
and
very
well
knew
the
Hermit
,
whom
,
till
then
,
he
had
accounted
a
person
of
great
sanctity
,
so
far
was
he
from
imagining
,
that
he
drove
such
a
Trade
,
and
that
his
Hermitage
had
,
for
so
many
years
,
been
the
refuge
of
High-way-beaters
,
and
House-breakers
.
Having
made
this
strange
discovery
,
he
returns
to
the
place
where
he
had
left
Rufina
,
and
gave
her
an
accompt
of
what
he
had
heard
from
those
Robbers
.
They
continu'd
there
without
making
any
noise
,
they
and
their
Horses
,
till
such
time
as
the
others
were
gone
,
considering
with
themselves
how
they
might
make
their
advantage
of
that
unexpected
adventure
:
And
taking
their
way
to
a
blind
Inn
,
not
far
thence
,
they
stay'd
there
the
remainder
of
that
Night
,
and
all
the
next
Day
.
Having
,
in
that
time
,
consider'd
what
they
had
to
do
,
they
went
both
towards
the
Hermitage
,
where
Brother
Crispin
(
so
was
the
Hermite
named
)
lived
,
and
being
got
within
a
small
distance
of
it
,
Garay
bound
Rufina
to
a
Tree
,
upon
which
she
cries
out
as
loud
as
she
could
,
Is
there
no
body
to
relieve
a
wretched
Woman
,
ready
to
be
Murther'd
here
?
O
Heaven
,
revenge
the
injury
done
to
my
innocence
.
On
the
other
side
,
Garay
acted
his
part
,
saying
,
'T
is
in
vain
for
thee
to
call
any
body
to
thy
relief
;
thou
hast
not
long
to
live
,
and
therefore
recommend
thy self
to
God
,
for
thou
shalt
not
escape
out
of
my
hands
;
as
soon
as
I
have
bound
thee
to
this
Tree
,
I
will
dispatch
thy
Soul
into
the
other
World
.
At
the
first
noise
of
her
crying
out
,
Crispin
hears
her
,
and
being
all
alone
in
the
Hermitage
,
a
thing
seldome
happened
,
for
,
most
nights
,
he
had
the
company
of
some
of
the
tribe
,
who
though
guilty
of
much
watching
,
were
not
much
either
of
sanctity
or
miracles
.
The
Hermit
came
out
with
two
good
Pocket-pistols
,
and
being
got
near
the
place
,
whence
he
had
heard
the
noise
,
he
discharg'd
one
of
them
,
which
happen'd
very
luckily
for
Garay
.
For
it
being
resolv'd
upon
the
question
between
him
and
Rufina
,
that
he
should
run
away
as
soon
as
any
came
near
them
,
it
might
be
conceiv'd
,
the
discharging
of
the
Pistol
had
frightned
him
.
He
presently
mounted
one
of
the
Horses
;
and
leading
away
the
other
,
he
rid
away
with
all
the
speed
he
could
.
Crispin
comes
near
the
Tree
,
and
,
by
the
light
of
the
Moon
,
perceiv'd
Rufina
,
weeping
most
bitterly
,
and
seeming
to
be
astonish'd
,
through
that
fright
she
was
in
.
Seeing
the
Hermite
coming
towards
her
,
What
art
thou
return'd
Traitor
,
said
she
?
will
nothing
deter
thee
from
executing
thy
cruel
design
?
Come
,
take
away
my
Life
,
and
put
me
out
of
further
trouble
,
and
doubt
not
but
one
time
or
other
,
Heaven
,
since
it
will
not
rescue
,
will
revenge
my
innocence
.
The
frock'd
Hypocrite
,
hearing
this
discourse
,
and
perceiving
thereby
that
she
mistook
him
,
made
her
this
Answer
,
Madam
,
I
am
not
the
person
you
think
me
to
be
,
but
one
who
comes
to
relieve
you
in
this
extremity
,
and
to
save
your
Life
.
What
is
become
of
the
Villain
,
who
would
have
taken
it
from
you
,
and
hath
oblig'd
me
,
contrary
to
the
rules
of
my
Profession
,
to
take
Fire-arms
to
pursue
him
,
not
doubting
but
what
I
do
will
be
accompted
an
act
of
meritorious
charity
in
the
sight
of
God
?
Having
thereupon
unbound
her
,
Rufina
cast
her self
at
his
feet
,
saying
,
It
must
needs
be
,
Brother
Crispin
,
(
for
she
knew
his
name
)
that
you
had
some
revelation
from
Heaven
,
of
the
violence
intended
me
,
since
you
came
so
miraculously
to
my
relief
,
and
that
with
Arms
so
contrary
to
your
Profession
.
Heaven
reward
you
for
the
charitable
assistance
you
have
afforded
an
innocent
Woman
.
I
cannot
express
the
resentment
I
have
of
the
kindness
you
have
done
me
,
otherwise
than
by
submissions
and
vows
,
as
being
oblig'd
to
you
for
no
less
than
my
Life
,
which
the
fury
of
a
Brother
was
just
going
to
deprive
me
of
.
Crispin
was
extreamly
taken
with
the
Woman
,
(
nay
notwithstanding
his
vow
of
chastity
,
he
had
a
kindness
for
the
whole
Sex
)
but
he
was
yet
master
of
so
much
modesty
and
reserv'dness
,
that
he
sorbore
all
discourse
of
Love
and
Familiarity
;
and
continuing
in
his
counterfeit
sanctity
,
My
dear
Sister
,
in
the
Lord
,
said
he
to
her
,
I
think
my self
far
from
deserving
all
the
favours
it
pleases
God
to
do
me
:
but
I
endeavour
all
lies
in
my
power
to
Live
virtuously
,
serving
my
Creator
in
this
solitary
place
,
where
it
hath
been
the
pleasure
of
his
divine
Majesty
,
that
I
should
be
a
means
to
save
your
Life
:
I
heartily
thank
him
for
it
,
and
am
extreamly
glad
,
that
what
is
done
is
to
your
satisfaction
.
For
this
night
,
I
can
onely
proffer
you
such
a
reception
as
a
poor
Cell
can
afford
,
where
you
may
continue
,
till
you
have
accommodated
your
affairs
,
and
reconcil'd
your self
to
your
Brother
.
I
assure
you
it
is
absolutely
at
your
service
,
and
I
offer
it
you
with
such
a
cordial
affection
,
as
a
good
Christian
ought
to
have
for
his
Neighbour
,
for
I
had
not
put
my self
into
this
habit
,
were
it
not
to
exercise
such
charities
as
these
.
Rufina
renew'd
her
thanks
to
him
for
the
civil
proffers
he
made
her
,
bursting
forth
afresh
into
feigned
tears
,
a
thing
some
Women
can
do
when
they
please
,
but
this
had
the
knack
of
it
beyond
any
.
She
gladly
accepted
of
his
kindness
,
as
what
conduced
very
much
to
the
compassing
of
her
design
.
They
thereupon
took
their
way
towards
the
Hermitage
,
and
Brother
Crispin
,
seeing
Rufina
was
somewhat
weary
,
endeavour'd
to
comfort
her
with
all
the
kind
words
he
could
think
of
,
and
at
last
took
her
by
the
arm
,
to
help
her
forward
.
He
open'd
the
door
of
the
Hermitage
,
and
when
they
were
got
in
,
Rufina
was
not
a
little
astonish'd
,
to
see
a
rough
Plank
,
which
he
pretended
was
his
Bed
,
with
a
Crucifix
at
the
head
of
it
,
and
on
one
side
,
hanging
up
by
a
Nail
,
an
Instrument
made
of
good
Whip-cord
;
wherewith
his
credulous
Zealots
believ'd
that
he
disciplin'd
himself
:
all
the
other
furniture
of
the
Room
consisted
in
a
little
rotten
Table
,
which
,
by
much
travelling
and
removing
from
place
to
place
,
had
brought
four
feet
to
three
.
Rufina
finding
the
room
so
poorly
furnish'd
,
and
the
person
who
made
his
aboad
in
it
so
mortify'd
and
reserv'd
in
his
behaviour
,
began
to
repent
her self
,
that
she
ever
came
thither
,
and
imagin'd
that
Garay
had
mis-understood
the
conference
of
the
Robbers
in
the
Wood.
But
the
devout
Hermit
put
her
out
of
her
dumps
,
for
taking
notice
of
her
looking
a
little
strangely
on
the
accommodations
of
his
House
,
he
said
to
her
,
My
dear
Sister
,
you
may
haply
think
this
a
very
poor
Lodging
,
and
that
you
will
have
but
an
ill
Nights
rest
;
be
not
troubled
,
I
will
Lodge
you
much
better
than
you
imagine
.
'T
was
your
happiness
to
come
hither
at
this
time
,
now
that
there
are
not
any
here
upon
their
spiritual
retreats
,
which
some
devout
souls
of
your
Sex
are
wont
to
make
at
this
Hermitage
,
sometimes
for
eight
or
ten
days
together
.
Some
of
these
,
for
the
greater
conveniency
of
their
devotion
,
have
sent
hither
Beds
,
and
some
other
Houshold-stuff
.
Incomparable
Hypocrite
!
Having
asked
her
whether
she
liv'd
at
Malaga
,
and
she
telling
him
that
she
was
a
stranger
in
those
parts
,
he
would
have
persuaded
her
,
that
there
were
Beds
in
the
Hermitage
for
such
as
came
to
make
their
spiritual
retreats
there
,
which
was
a
damnable
lie
:
but
the
truth
of
it
was
,
that
he
,
for
his
own
ease
,
had
very
good
Quilts
,
and
other
necessaries
for
a
bed
or
two
,
for
the
entertainment
of
the
secret
camerades
who
came
often
to
visit
him
.
These
conveniences
were
dispos'd
into
a
low
room
,
which
was
also
the
Treasury
,
where
those
birds
of
prey
,
put
up
such
things
as
the
true
owners
of
them
never
intended
should
be
acquainted
with
the
place
.
He
thereupon
desir'd
her
to
have
a
little
patience
,
till
he
went
down
to
fetch
some
bed-cloaths
,
which
having
brought
,
he
made
her
a
bed
in
a
little
Cell
,
at
a
small
distance
from
his
own
.
They
had
a
better
supper
then
Rufina
expected
,
there
was
some
boil'd
meat
and
broth
,
and
a
cold
Rabbet
,
which
Crispin
pretended
had
been
lest
at
the
Hermitage
by
one
of
his
Penitents
,
a
very
devout
old
Gentlewoman
,
whom
he
was
infinitely
oblig'd
to
;
and
to
close
their
stomachs
,
they
had
some
excellent
fruits
,
according
to
the
season
.
Rufina
was
a
woman
much
inclin'd
to
mirth
,
but
at
this
time
,
doing
her
natural
disposition
some
violence
,
she
seem'd
to
be
very
melancholly
and
reserv'd
,
and
so
continu'd
all
the
time
they
were
at
supper
,
eating
very
little
,
the
better
to
express
her
weariness
,
and
being
troubled
at
the
accident
,
which
had
befallen
her
.
The
Hermit
in
like
manner
pretended
he
had
no
great
stomach
,
whether
the
meat
was
not
dress'd
to
his
mind
,
or
that
he
did
it
out
of
a
compliance
with
his
fair
guest
,
whom
he
look'd
on
so
attentively
all
the
time
they
were
at
supper
,
as
if
he
had
been
to
read
a
Lecture
of
her
Physiognomy
.
At
last
,
having
taken
away
the
meat
and
cloth
,
the
Hermit
,
desirous
to
know
of
Rufina
,
the
cause
why
her
own
Brother
would
have
taken
away
her
life
,
entreated
her
to
satisfie
him
,
which
she
did
in
this
short
account
of
her self
.
Though
it
cannot
but
add
very
much
to
my
affliction
,
to
make
a
rebearsal
of
the
occasion
of
it
,
yet
the
kindness
you
have
done
me
,
my
dear
Brother
,
being
so
transcendent
,
I
should
be
a
very
ungrateful
person
,
to
deny
you
the
satisfaction
of
some
account
of
her
whom
you
have
so
highly
oblig'd
.
I
was
born
,
said
she
,
in
the
City
of
Almeria
,
of
noble
Parents
,
my
Ancestors
having
been
famous
there
for
several
ages
.
All
the
children
they
had
were
onely
my self
,
and
a
Brother
,
who
is
a
year
older
then
I
am
.
My
Father
and
Mother
left
this
world
,
and
me
in
it
a
little
before
I
was
fully
arriv'd
to
the
fifteenth
year
of
my
age
.
There
were
those
who
thought
the
face
you
now
see
not
unhandsome
,
that
is
in
other
words
,
several
persons
courted
me
in
order
to
marriage
,
but
my
Brother
oppos'd
it
as
much
as
lay
in
his
power
,
charging
my
Sutors
with
some
defects
or
other
,
in
their
estates
or
extraction
,
so
that
not
any
one
of
them
obtain'd
what
they
so
much
desir'd
.
I
believe
the
true
cause
of
my
Brother's
refusals
proceeded
from
a
desire
he
had
that
I
should
go
into
a
Nunnery
,
where
I
had
two
Aunts
,
and
he
get
to
himself
somewhat
of
the
fortune
my
Father
had
left
me
.
I
discover'd
his
design
,
by
their
continual
pressing
of
me
to
become
a
Nun.
But
I
never
had
any
inclination
to
that
kind
of
life
,
and
so
my
Answer
to
them
was
sutable
thereto
;
which
incens'd
my
Brother
so
much
against
me
,
that
he
never
look'd
kindly
on
me
since
.
While
these
things
were
in
agitation
,
a
young
Gentleman
,
who
had
left
Almeria
ere
he
was
ten
years
of
age
,
return'd
from
Flanders
,
where
,
for
the
good
services
he
had
done
his
Majesty
,
he
had
been
advanc'd
to
the
command
of
a
Company
of
Foot
and
a
Troop
of
Horse
.
He
came
accordingly
in
a
very
good
equipage
,
both
as
to
Cloaths
and
Horses
.
He
had
a
pretty
considerable
estate
,
and
had
not
receiv'd
any
thing
from
it
since
his
departure
from
Almeria
,
so
that
there
was
a
good
summ
lay
ready
for
him
.
He
one
day
chanc'd
to
see
me
at
Church
,
and
lik'd
me
so
well
,
that
he
enquir'd
who
I
was
.
Some
gave
him
an
account
of
me
,
and
soon
after
,
he
began
to
make
his
addresses
to
me
,
and
to
court
me
by
Letters
and
other
ways
.
To
make
my
tale
short
,
I
was
not
insensible
of
his
affection
,
but
considering
with
my self
the
equality
there
was
between
us
as
to
birth
,
and
the
excellent
endowments
he
was
Master
of
,
I
comply'd
with
his
love
,
and
admitted
him
to
come
into
the
house
,
but
upon
the
assurance
he
gave
me
,
that
his
courtship
was
really
in
order
to
marriage
.
He
visited
me
with
much
freedom
,
for
my
Brother
was
then
sick
of
a
disease
,
which
had
brought
him
almost
to
death's
door
,
(
I
would
it
had
carried
him
quite
into
that
cold
room
,
my
condition
would
not
be
so
sad
as
it
is
at
the
present
.
)
One
of
my
former
Sutors
,
being
not
a
little
troubled
to
see
a
New-comer
so
highly
advanc'd
in
my
favour
,
began
to
watch
him
,
and
in
a
short
time
saw
him
let
in
and
coming
out
of
our
house
,
at
an
unseasonable
time
of
the
night
.
He
made
a
very
ungentlemanlike
advantage
of
that
discovery
;
for
,
envying
any
other
should
have
what
he
could
not
obtain
,
he
gave
my
Brother
an
account
of
what
was
done
in
his
house
.
One
day
coming
to
visit
him
,
and
being
all
alone
with
him
,
he
told
him
what
he
had
seen
.
My
Brother
,
who
had
recover'd
a
little
of
his
strength
,
began
to
get
up
,
and
by
his
own
observation
was
confirm'd
in
what
the
other
had
told
him
.
Yet
could
he
not
be
reveng'd
of
me
,
by
reason
of
his
weakness
,
and
put
it
off
to
some
other
opportunity
.
He
seem'd
to
be
extremely
troubled
that
I
had
engag'd
my
affection
to
that
Captain
,
and
protested
that
he
would
have
been
much
less
,
had
I
made
choice
of
any
other
,
for
he
had
had
some
difference
with
his
elder
Brother
,
and
ever
since
,
they
had
never
been
good
friends
.
At
last
,
my
Brother
recover'd
his
former
health
,
and
finding
the
Captain
gone
from
Almeria
,
he
told
me
,
that
he
would
carry
me
to
see
an
Aunt
of
ours
at
Malaga
,
who
was
a
Nun
of
the
Order
instituted
by
St.
Bernard
.
I
believ'd
him
,
and
not
imagining
he
knew
anything
of
the
correspondence
between
the
Captain
and
my self
,
I
was
very
glad
of
the
opportunity
to
see
that
Aunt
,
whom
I
was
much
oblig'd
to
,
for
several
things
she
had
sent
me
of
her
own
working
.
We
prepar'd
our selves
for
the
journey
,
and
rode
each
of
us
on
a
horse
,
with
two
servants
on
two
others
to
wait
on
us
.
Being
come
into
the
wood
near
this
place
,
he
ordered
the
two
servants
to
go
before
,
to
prepare
a
lodging
for
us
,
and
being
come
to
the
place
where
you
found
me
,
just
as
day
was
taking
its
last
leave
,
he
threw
me
off
my
horse
,
and
put
me
into
the
condition
you
found
me
in
,
wherein
no
doubt
I
had
perish'd
,
had
not
you
fortunately
reliev'd
me
,
for
the
discharging
of
the
Pistol
made
him
get
away
before
he
had
done
the
work
he
intended
.
May
God
,
the
requiter
of
all
good
turns
,
remember
the
charitable
assistance
you
did
me
,
which
was
so
strange
,
that
I
shall
never
forget
it
as
long
as
I
live
.
The
Hermit
having
heard
this
story
,
took
occasion
to
comfort
her
the
best
he
could
,
and
promis'd
her
to
do
any
thing
that
lay
in
his
power
;
whereupon
they
parted
for
that
time
,
and
went
to
their
several
Beds
;
she
,
to
that
which
had
been
prepar'd
for
her
,
and
he
,
to
another
,
that
lay
in
a
secret
place
,
very
well
furnish'd
;
for
,
however
he
blinded
the
world
with
an
apparent
austerity
,
he
was
a
person
who
lov'd
his
ease
as
well
as
any
other
.
He
was
deeply
fallen
in
love
with
Rufina
,
and
mighty
desirous
to
acquaint
her
with
his
passion
;
but
the
fear
of
scandal
made
him
a
a
little
reserv'd
.
He
spent
the
whole
night
without
any
rest
,
contriving
how
he
might
best
make
a
discovery
of
his
love
to
her
.
As
soon
as
it
began
to
dawn
,
he
got
up
and
soon
after
him
Rufina
,
who
going
into
the
Church
belonging
to
the
Hermitage
,
found
him
on
his
knees
before
the
Altar
,
which
oblig'd
her
to
do
the
like
,
at
a
little
distance
from
him
.
He
thought
fit
to
continue
his
devotion
a
while
,
but
not
without
much
distraction
,
for
he
could
not
forbear
looking
on
her
,
to
such
a
height
was
his
love
grown
in
one
night
.
On
the
other
side
,
Rufina
,
who
was
as
well
read
in
Hypocrisie
as
the
Hermit
,
was
resolv'd
to
outvy
him
at
kneeling
,
in
which
posture
she
continued
somewhat
longer
than
she
could
have
wish'd
.
At
last
perceiving
that
Crispin
had
done
his
prayers
,
she
also
ended
hers
.
Whereupon
the
holy
Brother
comes
to
her
,
and
said
to
her
,
Blessed
be
the
great
Preserver
of
Mankind
,
my
dear
Sister
in
Christ
,
for
his
infinite
mercies
;
be
it
his
good
pleasure
that
you
may
live
happily
all
the
rest
of
your
days
,
and
have
all
those
enjoyments
of
body
and
mind
you
can
your self
desire
.
I
pray
tell
me
,
excellent
creature
of
God
,
how
you
rested
this
night
.
Very
well
,
my
beloved
Brother
,
repli'd
she
,
I
thank
your
kindness
,
though
the
trouble
I
am
in
suffers
me
not
to
be
quite
free
from
disquiet
.
There
is
nothing
more
argues
a
devout
Soul
,
says
Crispin
,
than
a
sweet
and
humble
compliance
with
the
will
of
Heaven
;
put
your
confidence
in
him
who
hath
numbred
the
hairs
of
your
head
,
and
doubt
not
but
this
heaviness
will
be
turned
into
joy
.
If
it
be
his
blessed
will
,
it
shall
be
so
,
said
she
,
though
we
see
not
the
means
how
it
will
be
effected
.
O
excellent
creature
!
cries
out
the
amorous
Hermit
,
how
highly
meritorious
in
the
sight
of
God
is
this
holy
acquiescence
and
resignation
?
Having
so
said
,
he
brought
her
into
a
little
room
,
out
of
which
they
had
the
prospect
of
the
fields
,
where
being
both
sate
down
,
Crispin
began
to
open
himself
to
her
in
this
discourse
.
When
I
seriously
consider
,
Madam
,
the
strange
effects
of
beauty
,
how
the
pursuance
of
it
forces
men
into
disturbances
,
and
in
a
manner
transports
them
out
of
themselves
,
I
cannot
chuse
but
pity
and
excuse
them
,
because
the
frailer
part
of
man
endeavours
its
own
satisfaction
,
and
the
heart
is
naturally
enclin'd
to
desire
that
which
the
eye
contemplates
with
a
certain
pleasure
,
especially
having
for
its
object
the
most
delightful
thing
that
God
ever
fram'd
.
You
may
hence
take
occasion
to
imagine
,
Sister
,
what
reflections
we
should
make
on
the
celestial
beauties
,
and
those
supernatural
miracles
which
transcend
the
reach
of
our
senses
.
When
I
left
the
world
,
which
was
in
an
age
not
much
acquainted
with
the
wickedness
of
it
,
I
propos'd
to
my self
,
as
far
as
I
could
with
a
respect
to
humanity
,
to
keep
my self
at
as
great
a
distance
as
I
could
from
the
sight
of
that
admirable
sex
,
which
is
not
undeservedly
called
,
the
fairer
half
of
the
world
;
inasmuch
as
I
have
already
put
away
childishness
,
and
began
to
entertain
thoughts
sutable
to
manhood
,
and
apprehended
,
that
to
be
exempted
from
the
charms
of
women
,
was
a
privilege
wholly
angelical
.
I
am
at
the
present
much
more
satisfied
as
to
that
particular
,
than
I
could
have
been
in
that
state
of
innocence
,
and
I
find
there
is
an
absolute
necessity
I
should
keep
out
of
your
sight
,
or
fall
into
the
snare
I
see
the
devil
laying
for
me
.
The
summe
of
this
discourse
,
Madam
,
is
to
shew
you
,
that
beautiful
faces
are
very
dangerous
,
and
that
,
since
my
first
sight
of
yours
,
I
feel
my
Soul
in
a
very
great
hazard
.
Be
not
startled
,
I
beseech
you
,
to
hear
me
talk
after
this
rate
;
this
discourse
,
I
must
confess
,
is
very
disconsonant
to
the
habit
I
have
on
,
and
the
proposition
I
have
embrac'd
:
but
these
have
not
unmann'd
me
,
and
consequently
not
exempted
me
from
humane
infirmities
.
With
these
words
there
might
be
seen
spreading
over
his
face
a
certain
blush
,
as
if
he
could
not
make
the
first
overture
of
such
a
thing
without
expressing
somewhat
he
was
never
truly
acquainted
with
,
Shame
.
Rufina
,
with
a
counterfeit
modesty
,
seem'd
to
do
as
much
as
he
had
:
but
Occasion
presenting
her
fore-lock
,
and
telling
her
that
that
was
the
most
likely
way
to
bring
about
her
design
,
she
would
not
give
him
an
absolute
denial
,
but
made
him
this
Answer
.
Though
I
know
my self
not
to
be
of
their
number
,
who
,
by
their
beauty
,
may
engage
men
into
any
disquiet
,
yet
must
I
acknowledge
,
Brother
Crispin
,
that
,
as
to
this
point
,
I
am
of
your
opinion
;
for
the
attractions
of
Beauty
are
so
powerful
,
that
I
my self
,
though
a
woman
,
am
carried
away
therewith
,
as
well
as
others
,
and
know
not
a
greater
pleasure
,
than
that
of
seeing
a
handsome
face
,
and
admiring
the
effects
of
it
.
And
therefore
I
wonder
not
at
all
,
that
men
are
reduc'd
to
some
extremities
,
when
they
are
passionately
in
love
,
since
it
is
to
be
imagin'd
,
that
the
force
of
beauty
operates
with
an
extraordinary
influence
.
Nor
do
I
think
any
more
worth
my
admiration
,
to
see
it
hath
its
effects
as
well
on
those
who
are
retir'd
out
of
the
world
,
as
on
those
whose
affections
are
most
inclin'd
thereto
,
inasmuch
as
they
have
not
attain'd
a
degree
of
perfection
purifi'd
from
the
dross
of
all
humane
enjoyments
:
And
therefore
,
I
have
reason
to
think
my self
the
more
oblig'd
to
the
charity
you
have
shewn
me
,
since
I
understand
,
that
your
exercising
of
it
is
not
without
the
Ioss
of
your
quiet
,
and
somewhat
of
scandal
.
I
could
wish
with
all
my
heart
,
that
I
were
not
the
cause
of
so
much
trouble
in
the
world
;
but
in
regard
you
are
not
heard
by
any
but
my self
,
you
need
fear
nothing
as
to
that
particular
.
You
were
desirous
to
know
the
History
of
my
Adventures
,
I
am
no
less
to
be
acquainted
with
yours
,
and
particularly
to
understand
what
might
have
oblig'd
you
to
leave
the
world
so
soon
,
to
live
in
this
solitary
place
,
and
with
so
great
austerity
.
For
though
I
doubt
not
but
you
did
it
in
order
to
the
salvation
of
your
own
soul
,
yet
me-thinks
I
perceive
in
you
those
excellent
endowments
,
for
which
you
might
have
been
esteem'd
in
your
youth
,
and
put
off
the
execution
of
so
hard
a
penance
till
another
time
.
Rufina's
discourse
was
as
the
counterfeit
Hermite
could
have
wish'd
it
,
and
thereupon
being
transported
with
joy
,
he
came
more
home
to
his
purpose
,
and
told
her
in
plain
tearms
,
that
the
charms
of
her
beauty
had
so
inchanted
him
,
that
,
from
the
minute
she
first
came
into
his
house
,
he
had
not
had
any
rest
,
he
loving
her
as
passionately
as
man
could
be
imagin'd
to
love
woman
.
Rufina
,
who
minded
her
own
work
,
entertain'd
the
discourse
with
somewhat
of
kindness
,
excusing
it
upon
the
account
of
humane
frailty
:
so
that
giving
him
some
hope
,
that
he
should
obtain
his
desires
,
he
seem'd
to
be
the
most
satisfi'd
person
in
world
.
Rufina
pretended
indisposition
,
and
for
two
days
together
kept
her
bed
,
where
she
was
treated
by
her
charitable
Entertainer
,
with
the
best
meat
could
be
had
for
mony
,
which
was
brought
to
the
Hermitage
in
the
night
time
,
by
his
Camerades
.
It
may
seem
somewhat
strange
,
that
Rufina
should
have
the
confidence
to
continue
all
alone
in
that
solitary
place
,
with
a
person
of
whose
wickedness
she
had
a
sufficient
knowledge
:
but
she
knew
withal
the
passion
he
had
for
her
,
and
inferr'd
thence
,
that
a
real
Love
never
being
without
respect
,
she
could
not
imagine
he
would
ever
injure
her
.
What
further
assur'd
her
,
was
the
hope
she
had
put
him
in
to
treat
him
more
kindly
,
when
she
had
certain
notice
brought
her
,
that
her
Brother
had
left
Malaga
;
besides
,
that
the
apprehension
she
had
lest
she
might
be
discover'd
,
kept
her
from
requiting
,
as
she
thought
her self
oblig'd
,
the
extraordinary
kindness
he
had
shewn
her
.
Thus
she
drew
in
by
degrees
the
Rampant
Hermit
,
who
,
to
further
on
the
work
,
promis'd
her
to
make
a
diligent
enquiry
,
by
the
means
of
his
friends
,
whether
her
Brother
were
at
Malaga
.
That
night
,
Crispin's
three
intimate
friends
came
to
the
Hermitage
,
bringing
along
with
them
above
two
thousand
Crowns
in
gold
.
This
was
the
robbery
they
were
engag'd
upon
,
when
Garay
over-heard
their
discourse
in
the
wood
.
The
discovery
had
been
made
by
Crispin
,
in
a
house
of
the
City
,
where
he
was
wont
to
receive
alms
,
and
the
rain
having
prevented
the
execution
of
the
designe
that
night
,
they
had
now
done
their
work
,
by
thrusting
a
little
boy
into
the
house
where
the
mony
was
,
who
made
a
shift
about
mid-night
to
open
the
door
for
them
.
The
three
Robbers
brought
the
mony
that
very
night
to
the
Hermitage
.
Crispin
,
who
was
unwilling
they
should
see
what
female-company
he
had
in
the
house
,
receiv'd
them
in
his
own
chamber
,
and
treated
them
with
a
Supper
.
As
they
supp'd
,
they
discours'd
of
divers
things
.
There
was
among
them
one
,
who
having
quitted
his
Studies
,
had
engag'd
himself
in
that
infamous
kind
of
life
,
not
regarding
his
extraction
,
nor
his
endowments
,
which
were
much
beyond
ordinary
.
This
person
furnish'd
them
with
discourse
upon
all
occasions
;
whence
it
came
that
Crispin
desir'd
him
to
divert
them
a
little
,
and
,
to
drive
away
the
time
a
while
after
supper
,
to
entertain
them
with
some
History
or
Novel
,
for
he
had
abundance
of
them
.
He
press'd
him
the
more
earnestly
,
that
Rufina
might
also
participate
of
the
diversion
,
who
,
from
the
room
where
she
was
,
might
hear
all
their
discourse
.
She
was
very
glad
,
to
find
,
that
Crispin
was
the
secret
entertainer
of
so
virtuous
a
Society
,
and
immediately
concluded
by
their
discourses
,
that
they
were
the
same
persons
,
whom
Garay
had
over-heard
in
the
wood
.
The
young
man
,
whom
the
Hermite
had
intreated
to
tell
them
some
story
,
display'd
the
excellency
of
his
wit
and
memory
,
in
the
relation
of
the
ensuing
Novel
.
THE
SECOND
NOVEL
.
The
Knight
of
the
Noble
Order
of
the
Marigold
.
DOn
Pedro
Osorio
,
a
Gentleman
of
very
high
Quality
,
was
born
at
Ville-Franche
de
Vierco
,
an
ancient
City
,
upon
the
confines
of
Galicia
.
He
was
descended
from
a
very
noble
Family
,
and
was
brought
up
in
his
own
Country
,
with
his
elder
Brother
Don
Fernand
Osorio
,
and
a
Sister
called
Donna
Constantia
:
but
his
Father
and
Mother
leaving
this
World
ere
he
was
full
fifteen
years
of
Age
,
he
was
forc'd
into
that
course
of
Life
,
which
is
commonly
taken
by
the
younger
Brothers
of
Noble
Houses
,
who
have
not
much
left
them
,
and
with
the
little
Money
he
could
get
together
,
he
went
to
trail
a
Pike
in
Flanders
.
He
behav'd
himself
so
gallantly
there
upon
several
occasions
,
that
he
got
the
Colours
of
a
Company
of
Foot
,
and
after
other
successful
encounters
against
the
Dutch
,
he
was
advanc'd
to
the
Command
of
the
same
Company
.
Having
afterwards
in
that
Charge
made
yet
greater
demonstrations
of
his
Conduct
and
Valour
,
his
most
Serene
Highness
the
Arch-Duke
Albert
prevail'd
with
his
Majesty
to
bestow
on
him
the
Order
of
the
Knights
of
Alcantara
,
with
an
assurance
of
the
first
Commandery
,
that
should
be
void
,
belonging
to
that
Order
.
Having
obtain'd
that
,
he
still
continu'd
his
Military
employments
,
till
such
time
as
there
was
a
Cessation
of
Arms
made
between
the
King
and
his
Enemies
of
the
Low-countries
,
to
last
a
year
and
a
day
.
This
opportunity
,
together
with
the
news
he
receiv'd
out
of
Spain
,
of
his
Elder
Brother's
Death
,
oblig'd
him
to
desire
leave
to
make
a
journey
into
his
Country
,
where
two
Children
his
Brother
had
left
,
and
his
own
Sister
,
stood
in
need
of
his
presence
;
the
former
,
to
be
protected
by
him
;
the
latter
,
to
be
dispos'd
of
in
marriage
.
Don
Pedro
arriv'd
at
Ville-Franche
,
fifteen
days
after
his
Sister's
departure
thence
for
Vailladolid
,
where
the
Court
was
then
,
with
an
Aunt
of
his
,
a
Widdow
,
his
Father's
Sister
,
who
would
needs
have
her
along
with
her
;
this
old
Lady
,
who
had
a
great
kindness
for
her
,
having
resolv'd
to
leave
her
all
she
had
at
her
Death
,
in
hopes
she
might
with
those
advantages
meet
with
a
better
match
.
As
soon
as
Don
Pedro
was
come
into
his
Country
,
he
took
order
about
his
Brother's
Estate
,
and
the
Tuition
of
his
Nephews
,
whom
he
left
in
the
custody
of
an
antient
Kinsman
of
his
,
whom
having
entrusted
with
the
care
of
their
education
and
maintenance
,
he
resolv'd
to
go
and
visit
his
Sister
at
Vailladolid
.
As
he
was
setting
things
in
order
for
that
Journey
,
passing
through
the
broad
place
of
Ville-Franche
,
he
saw
abundance
of
people
,
going
towards
an
Inn
,
which
was
at
the
end
of
it
,
accompanying
two
Litters
,
in
one
whereof
there
was
an
old
Gentleman
,
and
,
in
that
which
follow'd
,
a
young
Lady
,
whose
transcendent
Beauty
,
heightned
by
the
sumptuousness
of
her
attire
,
ravished
the
eyes
and
hearts
of
all
that
saw
her
,
but
above
all
those
of
Don
Pedro.
He
was
so
enflam'd
by
that
transient
sight
of
her
,
that
,
covering
with
his
Cloak
the
Order
he
was
of
,
he
follow'd
the
Litter
,
so
transported
out
of
himself
,
that
he
reflected
not
on
what
those
who
observ'd
him
might
say
of
his
demeanour
.
He
saw
her
lighting
at
the
Inn-gate
;
and
if
he
was
before
rais'd
into
a
kind
of
astonishment
at
the
beauty
of
her
Face
,
he
was
now
no
less
,
at
the
handsomeness
of
her
Body
,
the
magnificence
of
her
Cloathing
,
and
the
sweetness
of
her
Complexion
.
In
a
word
,
he
was
reduc'd
to
such
an
extremity
by
the
passion
he
immediately
felt
in
himself
for
her
,
that
he
made
enquiry
,
and
set
himself
to
find
out
,
who
that
miracle
of
perfections
might
be
,
which
had
so
of
a
sudden
surpriz'd
his
Heart
,
and
attain'd
so
absolute
a
disposal
of
his
Liberty
.
He
was
soon
satisfy'd
as
to
that
particular
,
for
,
meeting
with
one
of
her
Servants
going
from
the
Inn
towards
the
Market-place
,
he
with
much
civility
ask'd
him
,
who
that
old
Gentleman
was
,
and
whither
he
was
then
going
?
The
other
,
who
understood
civility
well
enough
,
return'd
him
this
Answer
,
The
Gentleman
,
whose
name
you
are
so
desirous
to
know
,
and
who
is
my
Master
,
is
called
the
Marquess
Rodolfo
,
a
person
of
the
highest
Rank
next
to
Soveraign
Princes
,
who
comes
into
Spain
,
an
Ordinary
Ambassadour
,
from
the
Emperour
of
Germany
,
to
his
most
Catholick
Majesty
the
King
of
Spain
.
He
brings
along
with
him
his
beautiful
Daughter
,
the
Lady
Margaret
,
to
be
married
to
Leopoldus
,
his
Excellency's
Nephew
,
who
is
at
the
present
at
Vailladolid
,
a
Gentleman
of
extraordinary
worth
,
who
in
the
flower
of
his
Youth
left
Germany
,
to
go
and
see
foreign
Countries
,
attended
onely
by
four
Servants
.
He
has
travell'd
over
all
France
,
England
,
and
Italy
,
and
is
now
resolv'd
to
make
his
aboad
in
Spain
,
having
already
continu'd
some
time
at
the
Court
,
with
a
very
great
Train
.
He
hath
a
House
magnificently
furnish'd
,
and
is
very
highly
in
favour
with
his
Catholick
Majesty
,
and
well
respected
by
all
the
Nobility
about
the
Court
;
nay
his
generosity
and
excellent
conversation
have
acquir'd
him
the
esteem
of
all
the
greatest
persons
in
this
Country
.
This
marriage
of
Signor
Leopoldus
had
been
treated
of
in
Germany
,
with
this
Lady
Margaret
,
the
onely
Daughter
of
my
Master
,
who
leaving
his
Country
upon
his
being
honour'd
by
the
Emperour
with
the
present
Embassy
,
hath
sollicited
the
business
with
greater
earnestness
;
so
that
his
Imperial
Majesty
seems
desirous
that
this
Match
should
go
forward
.
We
came
by
Sea
,
but
had
such
distress
of
Weather
,
that
we
were
like
to
be
cast
away
several
times
.
While
we
were
in
that
danger
,
my
Master
,
a
Gentleman
much
inclin'd
to
Devotion
,
made
a
Vow
that
if
he
escaped
,
through
the
intercession
of
the
glorious
Patron
of
Spain
,
(
for
whom
he
hath
a
particular
Devotion
)
he
would
visit
the
place
where
his
sacred
Body
lies
buried
,
so
well
known
all
over
the
World
for
the
great
Miracles
daily
done
there
.
Being
come
to
Vailladolid
,
my
Master
continu'd
there
fifteen
days
,
during
which
time
all
things
were
agreed
upon
in
order
to
the
Marriage
.
That
great
affair
being
concluded
,
he
would
needs
perform
his
Vow
,
and
go
to
Saint
James's
.
His
Nephew
Leopoldus
is
not
come
along
with
him
,
but
stays
at
Vailladolid
,
to
send
to
Rome
for
the
Dispensation
,
for
the
Lady
Margaret
and
Signor
Leopoldus
are
Cousin-Germans
.
Thus
Sir
,
I
think
I
have
satisfy'd
your
desire
,
as
to
the
question
you
put
to
me
.
Don
Pedro
gave
the
Servant
very
great
thanks
for
the
accompt
he
had
given
him
of
his
Master
,
and
assur'd
him
he
would
requite
his
kindness
,
if
it
lay
in
his
power
,
and
so
took
leave
.
This
discourse
happen'd
after
night
,
as
they
walk'd
over
the
Market-place
,
it
being
so
dark
as
that
the
Marquess's
Servant
could
not
take
any
particular
notice
of
Don
Pedro
,
who
did
all
he
could
to
avoid
being
discover'd
.
The
accompt
he
had
receiv'd
,
that
the
Beauty
,
which
had
stollen
away
his
heart
at
the
first
sight
,
was
already
engag'd
,
and
,
within
a
short
time
to
be
married
,
caus'd
him
to
return
home
a
much
sadder
Man
than
he
had
left
it
.
This
affliction
,
with
the
love
which
he
already
had
for
her
,
bereav'd
him
of
all
rest
.
That
very
night
,
he
would
needs
go
and
see
the
Marquess
and
his
Daughter
at
Supper
,
yet
so
as
that
he
might
not
be
perceiv'd
by
them
.
The
master
of
the
House
plac'd
him
so
as
that
be
might
see
all
at
his
ease
,
yet
not
be
seen
himself
;
and
this
was
to
leap
out
of
the
frying-pan
into
the
fire
.
The
next
day
,
the
Marquess
went
thence
,
so
as
that
Don
Pedro
saw
not
the
Lady
Margaret
any
more
that
time
:
nor
was
he
much
troubled
at
it
,
for
having
in
the
night
advis'd
with
his
pillow
,
to
find
out
some
remedy
for
his
disquier
,
he
found
it
necessary
,
that
he
should
not
be
seen
,
either
by
the
Marquess
,
or
his
Daughter
,
or
any
one
belonging
to
them
,
that
he
might
the
better
compass
a
design
which
onely
Love
could
inspire
him
withall
.
The
Kingdom
of
Galicia
is
very
full
of
mountains
,
and
consequently
the
way
to
Saint
James's
must
be
troublesome
to
travel
,
so
that
the
Marquess
could
make
but
short
Journeys
,
whence
Don
Pedro
inferr'd
,
that
he
could
not
be
back
in
less
than
twenty
days
;
presuming
he
would
make
some
aboad
at
Compostella
,
to
do
his
devotions
,
and
refresh
himself
,
ere
he
set
out
for
his
return
.
Accordingly
,
be
dispos'd
of
his
affairs
in
order
to
the
design
he
had
bethought
himself
of
,
and
,
taking
leave
of
all
his
acquaintance
,
he
went
to
Pont-ferrada
,
a
Town
which
lay
four
Leagues
further
from
the
Court
than
Ville-Franche
.
He
took
up
his
Quarters
at
an
Inn
,
whence
he
stirr'd
not
in
the
day-time
,
but
onely
took
the
air
a
little
in
the
night
,
yet
with
such
a
caution
not
to
be
known
to
any
,
that
he
discover'd
himself
to
none
of
the
Inhabitants
,
but
onely
his
Land-lord
,
whom
he
acquainted
with
his
quality
,
and
the
design
had
brought
him
thither
.
He
was
attended
onely
by
one
Servant
,
whose
fidelity
and
courage
he
had
many
years
experienc'd
,
for
he
had
serv'd
him
as
a
Soldier
,
and
waited
on
him
,
from
the
time
of
his
first
departure
from
Ville-Franche
.
Felician
(
so
was
this
faithful
Servant
named
)
perceiving
his
Master
more
melancholy
than
he
had
been
wont
to
be
,
and
that
somewhat
kept
him
from
resting
in
the
night
,
for
he
heard
him
disquietly
turning
in
his
bed
,
and
sighing
ever
and
anon
,
he
imagin'd
that
the
cause
of
his
disturbance
was
not
at
Pontferrada
,
inasmuch
as
if
it
had
been
,
he
would
not
have
fail'd
,
night
or
day
,
to
discover
by
his
visits
,
what
could
not
be
known
by
his
disquiets
and
sighs
.
Thus
this
discreet
Lover
not
discovering
any
thing
of
his
secret
passion
,
Felician
could
not
ghess
at
the
occasions
which
bred
such
a
distraction
in
his
mind
:
nay
though
he
did
all
lay
in
his
power
to
pry
into
it
,
yet
could
he
never
meet
with
any
satisfaction
.
One
day
,
finding
his
Master
all
alone
,
and
not
able
to
endure
that
reserv'dness
in
him
any
longer
,
he
thus
spoke
to
him
.
I
should
never
have
imagin'd
,
Sir
,
that
you
could
be
guilty
of
so
great
a
closeness
towards
a
servant
,
whom
you
have
ever
found
faithful
,
and
to
love
you
even
beyond
his
own
life
.
You
have
heretofore
thought
me
worthy
the
knowledge
of
your
most
important
secrets
;
pardon
me
,
if
I
presume
to
tell
you
,
that
your
silence
now
gives
me
just
cause
to
conceive
,
that
you
have
not
the
same
thoughts
of
me
,
and
that
I
must
be
guilty
of
some
crime
,
whereof
I
have
not
my self
the
least
apprehension
.
Wherein
,
I
pray
,
Sir
,
may
I
have
offended
you
?
You
must
needs
harbour
some
ill
thoughts
of
me
,
since
you
conceal
from
me
the
disquiets
which
deprive
you
of
all
appetite
to
meat
or
rest
.
Sure
they
proceed
from
Love
,
or
I
am
mightily
mistaken
.
You
close
not
your
eyes
all
night
,
and
spend
the
day
in
retirement
,
avoiding
all
society
,
and
giving
your self
up
to
perpetual
solitude
,
and
melancholy
;
which
I
am
extremely
troubled
to
see
.
You
have
left
your
Country
,
telling
your
friends
that
you
were
going
to
Court
;
whereas
you
continue
in
an
obscure
place
,
where
you
are
afraid
to
be
known
.
'T
is
impossible
for
me
to
forbear
grieving
at
it
,
as
long
as
I
am
ignorant
of
the
cause
thereof
.
Pardon
my
curiosity
,
Sir
,
which
however
impertinent
,
is
an
argument
of
my
faith
and
readiness
to
serve
you
.
I
know
it
to
be
the
duty
of
a
good
and
faithful
Servant
,
punctually
and
implicitly
to
obey
the
commands
of
his
Master
,
without
insinuating
himself
further
into
his
secrets
,
than
he
is
willing
he
should
be
acquainted
therewith
.
I
have
hitherto
kept
my self
within
those
bounds
,
and
have
so
liv'd
with
you
as
that
I
fear
not
any
reproach
you
can
make
me
.
But
now
at
last
,
my
ancient
fidelity
gives
me
the
boldness
to
ask
you
,
what
business
may
have
brought
you
to
this
place
;
what
occasions
your
disquiet
,
and
what
you
intend
to
do
in
this
obscure
Inn
,
where
you
admit
not
of
any
enjoyments
?
Have
you
a
greater
confidence
of
the
happy
Master
of
this
House
,
whom
you
have
known
but
within
these
four
days
,
than
of
an
old
Servant
,
of
whose
zeal
and
fidelity
you
have
had
so
many
experiences
?
You
have
heretofore
thought
my
advice
worth
the
asking
,
nay
have
follow'd
it
,
in
things
,
for
ought
I
know
,
of
as
great
importance
as
this
is
.
Felician
having
thus
ended
his
complaint
,
his
Master
conceiv'd
himself
oblig'd
to
make
him
some
Answer
,
which
was
this
.
Felician
,
I
must
confess
,
I
have
look'd
on
thee
,
and
that
justly
,
as
my
friend
,
a
title
I
may
well
allow
one
who
hath
shar'd
with
me
,
in
war
,
the
dangers
,
in
peace
,
the
enjoyments
I
have
been
engag'd
in
.
It
is
a
very
hard
thing
,
not
to
say
impossible
,
that
any
man
should
,
in
the
disposal
of
himself
,
take
a
course
contrary
to
that
intended
him
by
Heaven
;
though
it
be
said
,
that
a
wise
man
shall
have
dominion
over
the
Stars
,
that
is
(
as
Astrologers
expound
it
)
humane
Prudence
shall
elude
the
decrees
of
Fate
.
I
am
born
to
love
a
Beauty
,
which
surprising
my
heart
,
hath
withall
possess'd
it self
of
all
the
faculties
of
my
Soul
.
I
find
my self
no
longer
Master
of
my
own
liberty
,
that
I
am
not
able
to
make
the
least
disposal
of
my
will
,
and
so
it
were
a
madness
for
me
,
to
oppose
the
inclination
,
whereto
the
sovereign
Powers
have
made
me
subject
.
I
suffer
my self
to
be
foolishly
carri'd
away
by
my
passion
,
though
I
know
well
enough
that
I
attempt
a
thing
absolutely
impossible
,
and
beyond
my
strength
.
This
is
the
cause
of
my
disquiet
,
musing
,
and
melancholy
,
spending
the
nights
without
rest
,
and
the
day
in
solitude
,
suffering
a
thousand
asflictions
which
I
cannot
express
,
and
loving
where
I
am
not
to
hope
the
least
return
of
Love
,
by
reason
of
an
invincible
obstacle
that
lies
in
my
way
.
This
is
that
destroys
my
enjoyments
,
and
poisons
all
my
joy
.
I
have
seen
that
divine
Beauty
,
that
mortal
Angel
,
that
prodigy
of
miracles
,
who
pass'd
through
our
Town
with
her
Father
the
Marquess
Rodolfo
:
the
excellent
endowments
she
is
Mistris
of
,
and
which
thou
maist
have
admir'd
as
well
as
my self
,
are
all
the
excuse
I
can
alledge
for
the
blindness
of
my
passion
;
but
they
feed
it
not
with
any
hope
.
There
is
an
obstacle
lies
between
me
and
the
possession
of
her
,
which
I
shall
find
it
impossible
to
remove
.
This
transcendent
Beauty
is
already
made
sure
to
a
Gentleman
of
great
worth
,
who
is
her
Cousin-germane
,
named
Leopoldus
,
and
me-thinks
I
see
her
ready
to
join
hands
with
him
.
I
hear
such
high
commendations
of
his
excellent
parts
,
that
I
find
the
little
hope
I
had
ready
to
leave
me
.
I
love
her
,
or
to
say
better
,
I
adore
her
,
and
if
I
may
judge
by
the
present
agitations
of
my
heart
,
I
may
say
,
it
will
never
be
disengag'd
from
the
passion
I
have
for
her
.
I
know
it
is
madness
in
me
to
think
of
her
,
and
that
I
cannot
,
without
extravagance
,
ever
hope
she
may
be
mine
,
to
the
disappointment
of
a
young
Lord
,
who
,
with
the
advantages
of
bloud
,
hath
all
those
of
nature
.
Nay
I
think
it
almost
impossible
to
find
out
some
means
to
acquaint
her
with
my
Love
,
and
to
get
a
Letter
convey'd
to
her
.
I
know
that
the
houses
of
Osorio
,
Toledo
,
Astorga
,
and
Ville-Franche
,
whence
I
derive
my
extraction
,
are
not
inferiour
to
those
of
Rodolfo
or
Leopoldus
,
and
consequently
that
I
am
as
nobly
descended
as
she
is
;
that
would
not
be
the
greatest
obstacle
,
if
I
could
but
make
my self
known
at
Court
.
I
hear
that
she
intends
thither
,
when
she
returns
from
her
pilgrimage
;
I
have
but
three
months
to
carry
on
this
business
,
which
is
the
time
requisite
to
get
the
dispensation
from
Rome
.
I
have
a
long
time
consider'd
with
my self
of
the
means
,
how
I
might
get
access
to
her
,
and
that
I
conceive
the
most
likely
to
take
,
is
to
counterfeit
,
what
indeed
is
but
too
real
,
a
certain
distraction
of
mind
.
By
acting
the
mad-man's
part
,
I
might
so
disguise
my
extravagancies
,
as
that
the
Father
,
pleas'd
with
my
humour
,
may
haply
carry
me
along
with
him
to
the
Court
.
This
certainly
is
a
design
fantastick
enough
,
and
not
onely
contrary
to
my
quality
,
but
absolutely
opposite
to
the
opinion
I
should
endeavour
to
raise
my self
in
the
world
.
I
have
a
certain
confidence
,
that
at
Court
I
shall
be
known
to
very
few
,
because
I
have
been
a
long
time
out
of
Spain
.
Besides
these
considerations
,
the
habit
I
will
put
on
,
being
altogether
extravagant
,
I
shall
be
so
disguis'd
,
that
my
nearest
friends
and
relations
will
hardly
know
me
.
If
,
by
this
means
,
I
can
get
into
the
Marquess's
house
,
I
shall
hope
the
plot
will
take
.
For
I
have
heard
this
Lady
is
not
fully
satisfi'd
with
the
marriage
,
having
understood
that
her
Cousin
is
a
person
of
a
debauch'd
life
,
and
inclin'd
to
Women
;
and
that
she
admits
of
his
addresses
onely
out
of
obedience
to
her
Father
.
I
have
communicated
my
design
to
the
Master
of
the
house
,
as
being
a
discreet
person
,
who
may
serve
me
,
and
puts
me
in
hope
to
get
me
into
the
Marquess's
service
,
when
he
comes
to
give
him
an
account
of
my
pleasant
extravagancies
,
as
we
have
already
agreed
together
.
Thus
,
my
dear
Felician
,
have
I
given
thee
a
faithful
character
of
my self
,
thou
know'st
now
as
much
as
I
do
,
as
well
of
my
affliction
,
as
my
love
;
mistrust
not
the
confidence
I
have
of
thee
,
and
assist
me
with
all
thy
wit
and
industry
,
or
expect
ere
long
to
be
a
witness
of
my
departure
out
of
this
world
.
Felician
,
out
of
compliance
with
his
Master
,
approved
of
the
project
,
though
he
doubted
much
the
success
of
it
.
He
saw
his
Master
was
too
far
transported
to
receive
any
prudent
advice
;
so
that
he
promis'd
to
assist
him
according
to
the
design
he
had
laid
to
get
access
to
his
Mistress
,
and
troubled
not
his
thoughts
with
any
thing
but
how
to
compass
it
.
It
was
his
business
therefore
to
get
cloaths
made
for
Don
Pedro
,
sutable
to
his
extravagance
.
He
put
him
into
a
Cassock
after
the
old
fashion
,
with
puffs
at
the
sleeves
of
green
cloth
,
and
large
skirts
,
a
Cloak
somewhat
like
a
Rocket
,
very
short
,
and
a
Milan
Cap
,
of
green
Plush
.
Being
thus
disguis'd
,
he
chang'd
his
quarters
,
and
went
to
the
Host's
Brother's
house
,
who
also
must
of
necessity
be
acquainted
with
the
secret
.
All
this
could
not
be
done
without
some
yellow
pieces
,
whereof
he
had
brought
good
store
out
of
Flanders
,
with
some
Jewels
of
value
he
had
gotten
by
gaming
,
at
which
he
was
very
fortunate
.
About
this
time
the
Marquess
,
with
the
beautiful
Lady
his
Daughter
,
were
upon
their
return
from
their
pilgrimage
.
Before
they
got
to
Pontferrada
,
the
beams
of
his
Litter
broke
,
so
that
he
was
forc'd
to
come
to
the
Town
on
horse-back
,
and
to
stay
there
two
days
,
while
the
Litter
was
mended
.
The
Marquess
took
up
the
same
Inn
where
Don
Pedro
had
lodg'd
,
as
being
the
best
in
the
Town
.
The
Host
being
taught
what
he
had
to
say
to
the
Marquess
,
for
the
furtherance
of
Don
Pedro's
design
,
soon
met
with
an
opportunity
to
do
it
.
For
,
as
most
persons
of
Quality
,
when
they
travel
,
are
very
inquisitive
to
know
what
is
rare
or
remarkable
at
the
places
through
which
they
pass
,
the
Marquess
desirous
to
hear
what
there
might
be
at
Pontferrada
,
call'd
for
the
Host
.
Having
travell'd
several
times
before
into
Spain
,
he
spoke
the
Language
very
well
,
was
a
very
sociable
person
,
and
glad
of
company
.
The
Host
being
come
into
the
room
,
he
began
to
ask
him
concerning
the
Antiquities
of
the
Town
,
the
illustrious
Families
had
liv'd
in
it
,
the
dispositions
of
the
Inhabitants
,
the
beauty
of
the
Ladies
,
and
such
particulars
:
wherein
the
Host
satisfy'd
him
,
giving
him
a
very
exact
account
of
all
he
knew
.
Among
the
antiquities
and
remarkable
things
of
the
Town
,
he
came
to
speak
of
Don
Pedro
,
telling
such
stories
of
him
as
might
raise
a
desire
in
the
Marquess
to
see
him
.
There
is
come
,
said
he
to
him
,
within
these
fifteen
days
,
a
very
rare
person
to
this
Town
,
fantastically
clad
in
a
green
stuff
;
but
there
is
a
greater
extravagance
in
his
behaviour
than
there
is
in
his
cloaths
,
and
yet
in
the
height
of
his
distraction
,
there
may
be
observ'd
certain
shadows
of
understanding
and
staiedness
which
render
him
excellent
good
company
.
Being
asked
by
some
of
our
Inhabitants
,
who
he
was
,
I
am
,
said
he
,
Son
to
the
River
Sil
,
which
passes
by
the
walls
of
this
Town
,
and
descended
from
one
of
the
most
illustrious
Families
of
Galicia
.
He
expects
to
be
treated
with
your
Honour
,
and
your
Lordship
,
in
discourse
,
though
he
is
known
by
the
title
of
Knight
of
the
Noble
Order
of
the
Marigold
.
The
fooleries
he
tells
to
make
good
the
title
he
assumes
,
are
so
ridiculous
,
that
they
force
Laughter
from
the
most
melancholy
.
He
seldome
comes
out
of
his
Lodging
,
feeds
high
,
and
we
cannot
imagine
whence
he
should
have
means
to
live
at
that
rate
.
He
hath
a
Servant
to
wait
on
him
,
who
knows
the
length
of
his
foot
,
and
complies
with
him
in
his
madness
,
either
for
his
advantage
,
or
that
he
hath
a
soft
place
in
his
Head
,
as
well
as
his
Master
;
and
I
think
them
both
very
well
worth
your
notice
.
I
wonder
the
Knight
hath
not
been
yet
to
wait
on
your
Excellency
;
for
he
is
mighty
desirous
to
converse
with
Strangers
,
and
finds
them
out
as
soon
as
he
hears
of
their
arrival
.
The
Marquess
was
much
pleas'd
with
this
Relation
of
the
Host
,
and
desir'd
him
to
bring
him
acquainted
with
that
noble
Knight
.
The
fair
Lady
Margaret
express'd
also
a
desire
to
see
him
,
for
she
had
been
present
at
the
Host's
discourse
.
He
gladly
satisfy'd
them
,
being
over-joy'd
the
Prologue
of
the
design
had
taken
so
well
.
He
went
to
his
Brother
's
to
fetch
him
,
having
before
told
the
Ambassadour
,
that
he
must
treat
him
honourably
,
if
he
expected
to
make
any
sport
with
him
;
inasmuch
as
,
being
extreamly
self-conceited
in
his
madness
,
he
would
be
put
out
of
all
humour
,
if
he
were
entertain'd
with
any
dis-respect
,
or
indifference
.
The
Marquess
,
who
was
a
person
naturally
inclin'd
to
mirth
and
civility
,
promis'd
him
he
would
observe
his
directions
.
Whereupon
the
Host
marches
away
for
Don
Pedro
,
who
came
into
the
room
very
humorously
in
his
fool's
coat
,
making
wry
mouths
,
and
some
fantastick
gestures
,
the
introduction
to
his
future
extravagance
.
The
Ambassadour
,
how
serious
soever
he
would
appear
,
as
being
oblig'd
by
his
quality
to
dissemble
,
could
not
forbear
Laughing
,
to
see
him
in
that
equipage
,
attended
by
Felician
,
who
,
on
the
other
side
,
acted
very
well
the
part
had
been
given
him
.
He
went
to
receive
him
at
the
Chamber-door
,
with
this
complement
;
Welcome
to
the
noblest
piece
of
Gallantry
that
ever
Spain
saw
;
welcome
the
mirrour
of
all
the
brave
Knights
that
ever
were
celebrated
for
their
heroick
Actions
.
The
News
your
Excellency
tells
me
,
replies
Don
Pedro
,
deserves
not
the
reward
may
be
expected
for
it
:
you
are
extreamly
mistaken
,
if
you
think
your self
the
first
of
those
who
have
admir'd
Nature's
prodigality
towards
me
in
excellent
parts
and
endowments
.
Give
me
the
favour
at
least
,
answers
the
Marquess
,
to
be
one
of
the
most
faithful
witnesses
thereof
,
which
no
doubt
I
shall
,
if
you
please
but
to
honour
me
a
while
with
your
sweet
company
.
For
as
a
rich
Diamond
pleases
all
the
world
,
so
the
attractions
of
your
countenance
,
and
the
transcendent
insinuation
of
your
behaviour
forces
the
admiration
of
all
that
see
you
.
Don
Pedro
was
by
this
time
got
near
the
fair
Lady
Margaret
,
whereupon
looking
with
a
certain
astonishment
on
her
miraculous
Beauty
,
My
Lord
Marquess
,
said
he
to
him
,
I
beseech
you
forbear
at
present
the
praises
you
are
pleas'd
to
give
me
,
for
it
were
to
profane
those
which
are
due
to
this
excellent
creature
.
I
pray
let
me
know
whether
she
be
your
Daughter
,
for
if
she
be
,
you
will
be
much
concern'd
in
the
Elogies
I
shall
give
this
—
this
—
this
—
(
well
)
Miracle
.
Her
coming
into
the
world
was
to
embellish
our
Hemisphere
,
to
supply
Cupid
with
fresh
Darts
,
to
become
the
Load-stone
of
Hearts
,
the
delight
of
the
Eyes
,
the
astonishment
of
the
Universe
,
the
master-piece
of
Heaven
,
and
the
miracle
of
Nature
.
By
the
Noble
Order
of
Knight-wood
I
am
of
,
I
swear
,
that
the
very
minute
I
first
cast
my
Eye
on
this
accomplish'd
Beauty
,
I
found
my
heart
was
grown
rebellious
,
and
no
longer
mine
;
my
will
bereay'd
of
all
freedome
;
and
my
soul
become
absolutely
her
Slave
.
In
a
word
,
Sir
,
I
think
my self
somewhat
different
from
what
I
was
before
,
and
the
more
I
feel
my self
,
the
more
I
am
astonish'd
at
the
strange
Metamorphosis
.
The
commendations
you
give
me
,
renowned
Knight
,
replies
the
Lady
,
smell
too
much
of
slattery
:
I
am
confident
you
do
not
your self
believe
one
half
of
what
you
have
said
,
and
therefore
it
will
be
hard
for
you
to
persuade
me
to
it
.
You
consider
not
that
you
act
against
your
own
Sentiment
,
when
you
speak
against
your
Conscience
.
I
should
never
advise
a
Gallant
,
who
would
raise
himself
an
esteem
with
the
Ladies
,
to
hazard
his
own
disappointment
by
so
ill
a
Prologue
;
for
to
give
undeserved
praises
breeds
a
suspition
of
imperfections
;
and
to
be
forc'd
to
the
belief
of
falshood
brings
truth
into
question
.
The
truth
,
I
tell
you
,
replies
the
amorous
Extravagant
,
is
such
,
so
pure
,
so
clear
,
and
so
far
from
all
suspition
of
being
otherwise
,
that
you
shall
ever
find
it
as
plainly
in
my
Mouth
as
in
your
own
Looking-glass
.
Be
not
so
hasty
,
honourable
Knight
,
says
the
Lady
to
him
,
be
pleas'd
to
take
a
Chair
,
for
we
desire
to
discourse
with
you
at
leisure
.
Were
it
Heaven's
pleasure
,
Madam
,
says
Don
Pedro
,
as
soon
as
he
was
sate
,
that
I
might
ever
continue
near
you
:
but
I
see
the
honour
you
are
pleas'd
to
do
me
will
be
but
short
,
and
my
joy
soon
be
over
,
for
I
understand
,
that
within
two
days
you
leave
this
place
,
and
if
you
go
without
me
,
I
shall
dye
out
of
pure
grief
.
In
the
mean
time
,
give
me
leave
to
look
on
this
mansion
as
the
Empyreal
heaven
,
since
so
great
a
Deity
hath
honour'd
it
with
her
presence
.
We
forget
all
civility
,
says
the
Marquess
,
when
we
fall
into
other
discourse
,
before
you
have
first
entertain'd
us
with
your
own
noble
adventures
,
that
we
may
thereby
know
what
respects
we
ought
to
pay
your
worth
.
There
is
not
any
due
to
me
Sir
,
replies
the
disguiz'd
Cavalier
;
but
that
the
service
,
I
have
vow'd
you
,
may
be
the
better
receiv'd
,
I
will
give
you
an
account
of
my
extraction
,
and
relate
you
the
perfect
history
of
my
Life
hitherto
:
be
pleas'd
to
afford
your
attention
to
what
I
shall
say
.
The
Kingdome
of
Galicia
was
heretofore
govern'd
by
Counts
,
and
afterwards
by
Kings
.
Gondomar
reign'd
in
that
time
,
and
continu'd
a
Widdower
after
the
burial
of
his
first
Wife
,
by
whom
he
had
no
other
Children
but
the
Infanta
,
Theodomira
,
who
coming
to
reign
after
him
was
called
the
VVenching-Queen
.
She
fell
in
love
with
the
Gallant
Ricaredo
,
one
of
the
richest
and
prope
est
persons
in
the
Kingdome
.
He
ever
kept
about
the
Court
,
and
was
a
Kinsman
,
though
somewhat
afar
off
,
to
the
King
,
but
his
principal
Favourite
,
by
which
means
he
had
access
into
the
Queen's
chamber
,
and
got
of
her
that
favour
whereby
Mankind
is
propagated
.
I
prov'd
to
be
the
issue
of
that
amorous
Union
,
and
the
good
hour
of
my
birth
happen'd
at
a
time
that
the
King
chanc'd
to
be
at
his
Daughter's
lodging
.
The
pains
of
Child-birth
surpriz'd
her
,
and
being
a
Novice
in
such
adventures
,
she
could
not
dissemble
her
Labour
,
even
in
the
presence
of
her
Father
,
who
imagin'd
it
was
some
other
accident
had
happen'd
to
her
.
Her
VVomen
holp
her
to
Bed
,
not
knowing
the
disease
that
troubled
her
;
but
not
long
after
I
came
into
the
world
,
it
seems
,
to
run
through
all
the
misfortunes
that
have
happened
to
me
since
.
Being
receiv'd
into
the
world
by
a
faithful
Servant
,
who
knew
of
my
Mother's
Loves
,
she
took
me
in
her
Lap
,
to
be
deliver'd
to
a
Brother
of
hers
,
who
was
also
acquainted
with
the
business
.
As
she
went
out
of
the
Infanta's
Lodgings
,
she
meets
with
the
King
,
going
to
visit
his
Daughter
.
She
was
affraid
his
curiosity
would
have
egg'd
him
on
to
examine
what
she
had
in
her
Lap
;
which
made
her
turn
back
of
a
sudden
,
and
,
by
a
secret
pair
of
stairs
,
go
down
into
the
Garden
,
where
having
dispos'd
me
into
a
little
wicker
Basket
,
she
put
me
into
the
River
Sil
,
which
ran
by
the
wall
thereof
,
and
told
the
Infanta
that
she
had
deliver'd
me
to
her
Brother
,
as
they
had
resolv'd
.
I
was
carry'd
awhile
on
the
Chrystal
waves
of
that
clear
River
,
but
at
last
,
the
water
growing
somewhat
rough
,
I
sunk
,
and
was
receiv'd
into
the
arms
of
the
God
of
that
River
,
who
encompass'd
by
his
fair
Nymphs
,
conducted
me
into
his
own
Chrystal
palace
.
You
may
haply
imagine
this
discourse
a
feign'd
story
taken
out
of
the
inventions
of
the
Poets
;
but
give
me
leave
to
assure
you
,
that
the
business
happen'd
no
otherwise
than
as
I
tell
you
.
I
was
brought
up
by
the
Nymphs
in
that
secret
Mansion
,
and
instructed
by
the
God
of
the
River
,
who
wish'd
I
might
prove
worthy
so
noble
an
education
.
He
caus'd
me
to
be
instructed
in
all
manner
of
Sciences
,
and
spar'd
no
pains
to
make
me
an
accomplish'd
person
.
I
learnt
three
or
four
Languages
,
but
particularly
the
Latin
above
any
of
the
other
.
Being
arriv'd
to
the
twentieth
year
of
my
Age
,
Love
,
to
shew
his
omnipotency
,
and
that
all
places
are
under
his
jurisdiction
,
caus'd
his
flames
to
fasten
on
me
even
through
the
water
.
In
that
Virginal
company
of
Nymphs
,
there
was
one
,
for
whom
the
God
of
that
watery
habitation
had
a
particular
esteem
;
and
she
deserv'd
it
,
for
she
very
much
excell'd
all
her
Companions
;
her
name
was
Anacarsia
.
Her
endowments
were
extraordinary
,
and
her
beauty
beyond
all
comparison
.
In
complexion
and
stature
she
came
somewhat
near
this
fair
Lady
your
Daughter
,
and
had
the
same
advantage
over
the
rest
of
the
Nymphs
,
as
the
Delphick
Torch
hath
over
the
other
Planets
.
She
play'd
excellently
well
on
all
kinds
of
Instruments
;
to
sum
up
all
in
a
word
,
she
was
a
prodigy
of
all
perfections
.
I
fell
so
passionately
in
love
with
this
beauty
that
I
had
not
a
minute's
rest
,
from
the
time
that
little
Deity
had
wounded
my
heart
,
with
the
mortal
darts
of
her
sparkling
Eyes
.
I
found
it
a
hard
business
to
discover
my
love
to
her
,
in
regard
I
could
never
meet
her
alone
.
She
was
perpetually
haunted
by
some
of
those
who
liv'd
in
that
Chrystal
palace
;
they
follow'd
her
every
where
,
and
would
never
be
out
of
her
sight
.
But
one
day
,
when
all
the
other
Nymphs
were
gone
to
a
Musick-meeting
,
at
which
were
also
to
be
read
certain
Lectures
of
Poesie
,
being
the
ordinary
divertisements
of
the
God
of
that
River
,
the
divine
Anacarsia
purposely
pretended
some
indisposition
,
to
give
me
an
opportunity
to
speak
with
her
.
She
sent
me
notice
of
it
,
by
one
who
came
to
tell
me
from
her
,
that
she
kept
her
Bed
onely
for
my
sake
,
than
which
I
could
not
have
expected
a
kinder
complement
from
one
of
her
Sex
.
I
went
to
her
chamber
,
and
found
her
carelessly
laid
on
a
Bed
of
Moss
,
exceeding
in
whiteness
the
fine
Sheets
she
lay
on
,
and
disputing
as
to
splendor
and
light
,
with
the
Sun
,
who
then
beheld
her
.
I
was
startled
at
the
sight
of
so
many
charms
,
and
was
upon
the
point
of
losing
all
Sentiment
,
an
effect
natural
enough
in
those
who
are
truly
touch'd
with
love
.
But
recovering
my self
a
while
after
,
though
still
much
troubled
,
and
my
tongue
but
as
it
were
newly
loosned
,
I
took
the
confidence
to
make
this
discourse
to
her
.
Adorable
Nymph
,
the
glory
of
these
deep
Habitations
,
but
the
unavoidable
Rack
of
those
hearts
,
which
are
captivated
by
your
Beauty
,
my
soul
,
since
the
first
time
I
saw
you
,
is
absolutely
dispos'd
to
serve
you
;
I
have
no
further
power
over
her
,
she
is
wholly
yours
,
and
glories
in
her
slavery
.
Treat
her
as
a
thing
belongs
to
you
,
and
as
I
have
vow'd
her
to
you
with
an
inviolable
fidelity
.
You
have
done
me
an
extraordinary
favour
in
allowing
me
to
declare
the
amorous
passion
I
have
for
you
:
may
I
further
hope
that
you
will
allay
it
,
and
if
I
should
be
admitted
to
that
degree
of
felicity
,
should
I
not
be
the
happiest
and
the
most
glorious
of
all
men
?
The
fair
Anacarsia
infinitely
pleas'd
with
so
obliging
a
discourse
,
and
the
worth
she
observ'd
in
me
,
highly
honour'd
me
with
her
affection
,
and
compli'd
with
my
amorous
desires
,
in
such
sweet
and
melting
expressions
,
as
put
me
in
hopes
of
the
happy
accomplishment
of
my
Love
.
But
it
was
not
long
ere
our
discourse
was
interrupted
by
the
God
of
the
River
,
who
finding
neither
of
us
at
the
Meeting
,
came
streight
to
her
Chamber
,
and
slunk
in
so
softly
,
that
he
over-heard
some
part
of
our
amorous
conference
;
which
so
incens'd
him
against
me
,
that
he
immediately
resolv'd
to
give
a
check
to
my
presumption
.
He
laid
siege
,
with
his
clear
waters
,
to
the
chamber
of
Anacarsia
,
and
ere
he
had
quite
damm'd
up
the
door
,
he
cast
me
out
with
such
violence
,
that
I
was
got
to
the
bank
of
the
River
.
I
presently
heard
a
voice
saying
unto
me
,
Guadomarus
,
thou
art
descended
from
Kings
,
though
it
be
a
long
time
since
they
have
had
Scepters
in
their
hands
;
Princes
of
another
Family
have
displac'd
them
.
Thou
art
born
a
Pagan
,
choose
what
Law
thou
thinkest
best
;
if
thou
wilt
follow
my
advice
,
thou
wilt
take
that
which
is
observ'd
in
this
Kingdom
,
under
which
lived
thy
illustrious
Ancestors
.
I
have
justly
banish'd
thee
out
of
my
dominions
,
because
it
was
not
fit
I
should
suffer
profane
love
to
be
made
to
a
Nymph
who
had
vow'd
her
chastity
to
me
,
as
I
had
mine
to
her
.
I
have
promis'd
her
my
protection
and
assistance
in
all
things
.
Keep
henceforward
within
thy
Kingdom
,
and
assure
thy self
I
wish
thy
good
and
advancement
,
so
far
am
I
from
doing
thee
any
discourtesie
.
Whithersoever
Fortune
shall
dispose
of
thee
,
be
confident
,
thou
wilt
not
be
out
of
the
reach
of
my
care
.
With
those
words
the
waters
of
the
River
seem'd
to
stir
themselves
into
a
gentle
curl
,
which
being
presently
laid
,
it
became
as
smooth
as
it
had
been
before
.
I
immediately
found
my self
(
by
what
adventure
I
know
not
)
in
a
Kitchin-garden
,
in
the
midst
of
a
bed
of
Marigolds
,
which
I
look'd
on
as
a
good
Omen
,
and
thought
my self
oblig'd
to
derive
my
name
thence
.
Afterwards
,
at
my
baptism
,
I
took
the
name
of
Peter
Gil
of
Galicia
,
taking
the
surname
from
the
Kingdom
which
had
been
heretofore
in
the
possession
of
my
Predecessors
,
who
have
been
dead
these
four
hundred
years
,
as
I
have
found
in
History
.
Besides
that
name
I
have
taken
as
an
additional
title
,
that
of
Knight
of
the
noble
Order
of
the
Marigold
;
I
have
assum'd
it
my self
,
for
an
illustrious
Hero
,
as
I
am
,
may
be
his
own
Herald
,
and
by
what
appellations
he
pleases
raise
himself
above
the
sphere
of
the
common
sort
of
people
.
Thus
have
I
given
your
Excellence
an
accompt
who
I
am
,
and
discover'd
to
you
my
true
Original
.
If
the
qualities
and
endowments
I
own
,
deserve
the
Honour
to
be
receiv'd
into
your
alliance
,
give
me
leave
,
O
most
illustrious
Marquess
,
to
make
my
addresses
to
this
super-celestial
Beauty
,
this
Miracle
of
our
age
,
whom
Nature
was
humorously
pleas'd
to
frame
for
the
delight
of
the
eyes
,
and
torment
of
hearts
.
I
onely
expect
your
good
will
,
give
it
me
,
I
beseech
you
,
and
thereby
satisfie
my
extraordinary
passion
.
I
think
you
so
generous
,
that
you
will
not
deny
it
me
,
if
you
consider
,
that
granting
it
not
,
you
bereave
me
of
my
life
,
which
you
know
is
the
most
illustrious
of
any
in
Europe
;
and
are
consequently
satisfi'd
,
that
the
world
,
losing
in
me
,
the
most
renowned
Knight
it
ever
had
,
must
withall
lose
the
worthiest
Kinsman
of
his
Catholick
Majesty
King
Philip.
He
deliver'd
these
last
words
with
such
pleasant
gestures
,
the
better
to
express
the
violence
of
his
passion
,
that
both
the
Marquess
and
his
Daughter
had
much
ado
to
forbear
laughing
.
Felician
was
astonish'd
to
see
the
force
of
that
passion
,
which
,
of
an
accomplish'd
Gentleman
,
made
a
ridiculous
laughing-stock
;
and
could
turn
a
person
of
eminent
parts
and
judgment
,
one
not
long
before
consulted
in
Flanders
as
an
Oracle
,
into
a
counterfeit
Extravagant
.
For
if
he
had
not
pretended
the
loss
of
his
wits
,
he
had
lost
all
the
hopes
of
his
love
;
and
he
could
not
have
gotten
near
so
fair
a
Lady
upon
any
account
but
that
of
madness
.
The
Marquess
composing
his
countenance
to
more
seriousness
,
return'd
him
this
Answer
.
Signor
Don
Pedro
Gill
,
the
most
illustrious
,
and
onely
Knight
of
the
Noble
Order
of
the
Marigold
,
I
am
extremely
pleas'd
with
the
knowledge
you
have
given
me
of
your
person
,
and
the
accompt
you
have
entertain'd
me
with
of
your
miraculous
birth
and
noble
education
.
Had
a
person
,
less
illustrious
than
your self
,
acquainted
me
therewith
,
I
should
have
mistrusted
his
discourse
,
and
imagin'd
he
told
me
fables
:
but
a
person
of
your
worth
and
quality
ought
to
be
credited
in
all
things
.
What
further
confirms
me
in
the
truth
thereof
is
,
that
,
he
is
no
less
then
a
Prince
who
speaks
to
me
.
Believe
me
,
I
have
a
great
respect
for
your
rare
Qualities
,
and
such
an
honour
for
your
person
,
that
I
would
assure
you
my
own
is
wholly
at
your
service
.
I
have
that
esteem
for
your
friendship
,
that
I
shall
endeavour
the
continuance
of
it
while
I
live
.
I
wish
my self
a
natural
Inhabitant
of
this
Kingdom
,
that
I
might
have
the
greater
opportunities
to
further
your
satisfaction
.
I
shall
stay
here
but
till
such
time
as
his
Imperial
Majesty
shall
send
order
for
my
return
;
but
during
the
abode
I
shall
make
here
,
command
me
in
any
thing
lies
in
my
power
.
As
for
the
permission
you
desire
to
make
your
addresses
to
my
Daughter
,
I
from
this
time
give
it
you
,
and
I
allow
her
to
accept
of
it
,
and
to
entertain
you
kindly
:
but
she
is
already
made
sure
to
a
Cousin
of
hers
,
and
I
have
sent
to
Rome
for
a
Dispensation
,
which
once
come
,
the
Marriage
will
be
concluded
.
This
obstacle
lies
in
your
way
,
and
you
will
find
it
a
hard
matter
to
remove
it
.
I
am
sorry
I
had
not
the
happiness
of
your
acquaintance
before
;
for
how
gladly
would
I
have
embrac'd
the
honour
of
having
a
Son-in-law
of
your
worth
and
quality
,
and
to
see
my
Family
alli'd
to
the
Blood-Royal
of
Galicia
?
The
end
of
most
Courtships
is
Marriage
;
of
yours
you
see
it
cannot
be
.
To
address
your self
to
my
Daughter
upon
any
other
account
,
I
know
you
would
not
;
the
husband
she
expects
is
a
person
of
so
much
gallantry
,
as
not
to
receive
any
such
affront
.
The
disguis'd
Extravagant
broke
forth
into
great
resentments
upon
his
obliging
discourse
,
which
made
excellent
sport
for
all
that
were
present
.
But
having
laugh'd
their
fill
,
the
Marquess
and
his
Daughter
could
not
forbear
making
charitable
reflections
on
that
strange
kind
of
distraction
.
It
pitied
them
to
see
a
Gentleman
every
way
so
accomplish'd
,
fall'n
into
such
unheard
of
extravagancies
,
as
to
alledge
himself
descended
from
a
River
,
and
brought
up
in
it
,
five
hundred
years
before
.
While
some
that
were
present
,
purposely
to
urge
him
to
speak
,
oppos'd
the
stories
he
had
told
them
,
and
he
endeavour'd
to
give
them
satisfaction
,
the
Marquess
acquainted
his
Daughter
with
a
thing
had
come
into
his
mind
,
which
was
to
carry
Don
Pedro
along
with
them
to
the
Court
,
it
being
likely
he
would
find
them
excellent
sport
by
the
way
.
They
resolv'd
to
treat
him
as
a
Person
of
eminent
quality
,
having
understood
by
his
Servant
,
that
he
was
really
such
,
and
that
upon
his
recovery
out
of
a
great
sickness
,
that
madness
had
seiz'd
him
.
The
Lady
Margaret
was
very
well
content
,
leaving
it
to
some
other
time
to
acquaint
him
therewith
.
Don
Pedro
Gil
coming
to
take
his
leave
of
the
Marquess
said
to
him
,
That
since
he
was
so
unhappy
as
not
to
deserve
his
fair
Daughter's
hand
,
in
the
quality
of
a
Husband
,
he
would
allow
him
to
love
her
with
a
vertuous
Love
,
such
as
even
her
Husband
should
not
disapprove
.
The
Marquess
gave
way
,
desiring
him
to
honour
him
with
his
company
at
supper
that
night
,
for
that
he
had
somewhat
to
communicate
unto
him
.
Don
Pedro
gladly
accepted
the
proffer
,
and
thereupon
they
parted
.
The
Marquess
and
his
people
talked
very
much
of
Don
Pedro
,
wondring
at
the
strange
kind
of
madness
he
was
fallen
into
.
He
acquainted
them
with
the
design
he
had
to
take
him
along
to
the
Court
.
The
Master
of
the
house
where
he
was
lodg'd
happening
to
be
then
present
,
told
him
,
that
he
doubted
Don
Pedro
Gill
would
hardly
be
persuaded
thereto
,
if
the
Marquess
treated
him
as
an
inferiour
;
for
he
was
mighty
self-conceited
,
and
stood
much
upon
his
honour
;
but
if
he
were
willing
,
there
would
arise
another
difficulty
in
the
manner
of
his
travelling
;
in
regard
,
said
he
to
him
,
your
Excellency
going
by
Litter
,
I
think
he
would
be
loath
to
go
by
horse
.
We
'l
find
an
expedient
for
that
,
says
the
Marquess
,
which
is
,
that
my
Daughter
,
as
his
Mistress
,
shall
command
him
to
entertain
her
at
the
side
of
her
Litter
;
for
if
his
love
continues
,
he
will
be
glad
of
the
opportunity
;
and
he
shall
have
an
excellent
horse
,
richly
harnass'd
,
which
I
have
led
after
me
,
to
ride
on
when
I
am
weary
of
the
Litter
.
Don
Pedro
,
who
had
been
acquainted
with
all
these
discourses
,
fail'd
not
to
come
to
supper
,
to
which
he
had
been
invited
.
The
Marquess
receiv'd
him
very
civilly
,
and
caus'd
a
chair
to
be
set
for
him
,
near
his
Daughter
,
which
he
thought
a
very
signal
favour
.
They
talk'd
of
divers
things
,
the
Marquess
finding
he
had
an
excellent
wit
in
his
intervals
,
which
ever
clos'd
with
some
pleasant
extravagance
.
They
were
very
merry
at
supper
,
and
were
oblig'd
for
their
diversion
to
the
merry
discourses
of
Don
Pedro.
At
last
,
the
cloth
being
taken
away
,
the
Marquess
broke
his
mind
to
him
in
these
words
.
'T
is
a
thousand
pities
,
most
renowned
Knight
,
that
a
person
so
accomplish'd
as
you
are
,
and
one
furnish'd
with
all
the
excellent
endowments
that
recommend
men
to
the
favour
and
esteem
of
Princes
,
should
as
it
were
defie
their
Courts
,
and
spend
your
time
and
talents
in
such
an
obscure
place
as
this
is
.
I
have
heard
that
the
reason
of
this
your
retirement
is
,
that
you
have
not
means
to
live
sutably
to
your
condition
and
the
rank
you
should
maintain
.
If
it
be
so
,
give
me
leave
to
propose
an
expedient
to
you
,
out
of
the
particular
esteem
I
have
for
your
Signory
.
I
shall
take
it
for
a
very
great
favour
,
if
you
will
be
pleased
to
go
along
with
me
to
Valladolid
,
where
you
shall
be
treated
,
in
my
Quarters
,
with
all
the
submissions
and
respects
due
to
a
person
of
your
quality
,
yet
so
as
that
it
shall
not
cost
you
any
thing
.
By
this
means
coming
to
be
known
,
and
your
worth
spreading
it self
,
you
may
meet
with
a
rich
wife
,
of
some
illustrious
Family
;
wherein
my
Daughter
may
do
you
a
kindness
,
in
regard
she
,
having
occasion
to
see
many
of
them
,
will
advance
you
into
her
favour
,
for
whom
you
have
most
inclination
.
Let
me
obtain
of
your
Knight-hood
the
favour
I
desire
of
you
;
live
freely
with
us
,
since
you
would
have
me
believe
,
that
the
love
you
bear
my
Daughter
is
pure
and
sincere
;
I
will
undertake
it
shall
be
kindly
taken
by
the
Husband
she
hopes
to
have
.
I
expect
your
Answer
to
this
particular
,
and
I
desire
it
may
be
consonant
to
the
esteem
I
have
for
your
worth
.
Don
Pedro
was
extremely
satisfi'd
,
that
the
Imposture
had
taken
so
well
,
and
immediately
apprehended
,
that
,
living
in
the
house
with
the
Marquess
,
he
should
be
near
her
whom
he
ador'd
,
which
was
the
main
end
of
his
desires
;
whereupon
he
return'd
him
this
Answer
.
No
temptation
in
the
world
should
have
forc'd
my
removal
from
this
place
,
but
the
extraordinary
Civilities
I
have
receiv'd
from
your
Excellency
.
I
had
resolv'd
to
spend
the
rest
of
my
days
in
this
retirement
,
as
conceiving
it
the
best
course
for
a
person
of
my
Quality
,
whose
Revenues
are
much
below
his
Honour
,
to
confine
himself
to
some
place
,
where
he
is
not
much
known
,
and
so
avoid
the
charge
of
Servants
and
Cloaths
.
But
the
respects
you
are
pleas'd
to
have
for
me
,
together
with
this
transcendent
Beauty
,
who
,
by
the
forcible
attractions
of
her
divine
countenance
,
draws
hearts
after
her
,
as
the
Thracian
Orpheus
did
living
creatures
,
stones
and
plants
,
by
the
harmonious
sound
of
his
Harp
,
have
made
me
wholly
at
your
service
.
I
shall
not
trouble
either
you
or
my self
to
tell
you
how
persons
of
my
Quality
ought
to
be
treated
,
as
thinking
it
enough
,
that
I
have
already
acquainted
you
with
my
Titles
,
and
particularly
that
I
am
of
the
Blood-Royal
.
The
greatest
favour
you
can
ever
do
me
,
is
,
that
you
command
me
to
wait
on
your
Daughter
,
which
if
you
do
,
I
shall
the
more
willingly
accept
of
the
proffer
you
are
pleas'd
to
make
me
.
The
Marquess
finding
him
willing
to
go
along
with
them
,
all
that
remain'd
to
be
done
was
to
persuade
him
to
do
it
on
horse-back
,
which
he
was
content
to
do
,
that
he
might
the
better
entertain
his
Mistress
at
the
side
of
her
Litter
.
Don
Pedro
help'd
the
Lady
into
her
Litter
,
being
proud
in
his
mind
at
that
introduction
of
his
service
to
her
,
and
that
he
had
the
happiness
to
take
her
by
the
fair
hand
,
continuing
his
attendance
on
her
from
their
departure
from
Pontferrada
,
till
they
came
to
Valladolid
.
All
the
way
along
,
he
entertain'd
her
with
pleasant
discourses
,
intermixt
with
amorous
expressions
,
and
at
every
Inn
they
came
to
,
she
fail'd
not
to
give
her
Father
an
account
of
the
divertive
discourses
she
had
had
with
Don
Pedro.
The
last
day
of
their
Journey
,
Don
Pedro
would
needs
feel
the
pulse
of
his
Mistress
as
to
her
intended
Marriage
,
and
endeavour'd
to
discover
how
she
was
inclin'd
thereto
.
He
brought
the
business
upon
the
Stage
,
so
dexterously
,
as
that
she
might
not
suspect
him
guilty
of
any
impertinent
curiosity
.
It
is
commonly
observ'd
that
persons
any
way
afflicted
are
apt
to
break
their
minds
to
any
people
,
but
especially
to
those
with
whom
they
are
familiarly
acquainted
.
Accordingly
,
to
ease
her
own
thoughts
,
and
satisfie
Don
Pedro
,
she
made
him
this
Answer
.
Worthy
Knight
of
the
most
honourable
Order
of
the
Marigold
,
I
must
needs
acknowledge
,
that
my
Cousin
Leopoldus
is
a
person
endow'd
with
all
the
Qualities
,
capable
to
raise
a
Woman's
Love
to
the
highest
pitch
,
but
I
have
withall
discover'd
him
to
be
so
fickle
,
and
one
so
naturally
inclin'd
to
address
himself
to
all
sorts
of
Women
,
not
regarding
whether
they
be
nobly
or
meanly
descended
,
that
it
very
much
cools
my
affection
towards
him
,
and
makes
me
fear
his
alliance
,
though
I
find
my self
sufficiently
inclin'd
thereto
,
could
I
perceive
any
likelihood
of
his
reforming
himself
of
that
insufferable
humour
.
But
,
far
from
that
,
since
my
coming
into
Spain
,
when
he
should
have
endeavour'd
to
give
me
greater
assurances
of
his
affection
,
I
find
him
as
indifferent
as
to
my
satisfaction
as
ever
:
and
God
knows
with
what
apprehensions
I
am
induc'd
to
condescend
to
this
Match
.
For
if
I
am
now
frightned
at
the
thoughts
of
his
mis-carriages
,
what
must
I
not
fear
,
when
he
shall
become
my
Master
?
The
obedience
I
owe
my
Father
,
and
the
necessity
I
find
that
this
Marriage
should
be
concluded
,
for
the
composure
of
some
differences
in
our
Family
,
make
me
wholly
passive
in
the
business
,
and
so
content
it
should
go
forward
.
I
admit
of
his
Addresses
not
without
some
violence
to
my
own
inclination
,
and
all
I
can
do
,
is
to
pray
Heaven
,
that
it
would
inspire
him
with
better
resolutions
.
Don
Pedro
could
have
wish'd
that
she
had
not
been
so
resolute
,
as
she
seem'd
to
be
.
He
therefore
,
though
then
personating
a
Fool
,
answer'd
her
as
a
wise
Man
,
and
advis'd
her
to
bear
a
while
with
the
failings
of
her
Cousin
.
Despair
not
,
Madam
,
said
he
to
her
,
but
Don
Leopoldus
may
become
another
Man
,
and
that
if
he
be
such
as
you
describe
him
now
,
that
volatile
humour
will
be
fix'd
in
him
,
when
he
shall
come
to
be
possess'd
of
so
fair
and
accomplish'd
a
Lady
.
But
he
resolv'd
,
upon
the
first
opportunity
should
present
it self
,
to
express
his
mind
to
her
in
other
tearms
,
and
to
make
a
full
discovery
of
himself
to
his
Mistress
.
They
came
that
day
to
Valladolid
,
and
Leopoldus
met
them
half
a
days
Journey
short
of
it
.
He
was
very
kindly
receiv'd
both
of
the
Marquess
and
his
Daughter
,
whereat
the
disguis'd
Don
Pedro
was
not
a
little
troubled
:
for
finding
Don
Leopoldus
a
very
graceful
person
,
he
began
to
entertain
some
doubts
of
the
success
of
his
enterprize
.
The
Marquess
thought
fit
to
make
him
acquainted
with
Don
Pedro
,
that
,
by
the
Character
he
gave
him
,
he
might
accordingly
treat
him
.
Nephew
,
said
he
to
him
,
I
pray
take
notice
of
this
noble
Cavalier
,
who
hath
honoured
us
with
his
company
from
Galicia
,
for
his
person
,
and
the
rare
qualities
he
is
Master
of
are
such
as
deserve
the
highest
esteem
.
I
desire
you
to
respect
him
accordingly
,
and
assure
your self
all
you
do
will
be
below
his
merit
,
not
onely
upon
the
accompt
of
the
Royal
Blood
from
which
he
is
descended
,
but
also
the
Romantick
title
he
assumes
to
himself
,
of
Knight
of
the
honourable
Order
of
the
Marigold
.
He
pretends
a
jurisdiction
over
all
those
places
where
ever
any
of
that
Herb
grows
,
and
never
sees
it
,
but
he
thinks
of
the
complexion
of
a
Mistress
he
once
had
,
who
spent
most
of
her
time
in
Kitchin-Gardens
,
in
one
whereof
it
was
Love's
pleasure
to
make
him
a
Captive
to
her
Beauty
,
as
she
was
gathering
some
Marigolds
.
This
description
made
Don
Leopoldus
take
a
particular
notice
of
Don
Pedro
,
and
he
doubted
not
,
as
well
by
his
accoutrements
,
as
by
the
fantastick
title
he
had
taken
to
himself
,
to
conclude
him
a
most
transcendent
Extravagant
,
and
that
,
as
such
,
they
had
entertain'd
him
into
their
Company
.
Accordingly
,
to
comply
with
his
Uncle
,
he
made
this
complement
to
Don
Pedro.
Most
honourable
Knight
of
the
Marigold
,
I
shall
receive
your
acquaintance
with
as
great
satisfaction
as
I
should
do
that
of
the
greatest
Monarch
in
the
world
,
and
think
my self
infinitely
oblig'd
to
you
,
that
,
being
a
person
of
such
extraordinary
parts
,
you
were
pleas'd
to
honour
the
Marquess
my
Uncle
,
and
my
Cousin
,
with
your
company
so
far
out
of
your
own
territories
.
In
acknowledgement
of
that
noble
favour
,
be
pleas'd
to
accept
the
proffer
I
make
to
you
of
ever
being
your
most
affectionate
and
most
humble
Servant
,
than
which
I
cannot
expect
a
higher
relation
to
you
,
when
I
consider
the
character
my
Uncle
hath
been
pleas'd
to
give
you
.
Don
Pedro
return'd
him
his
most
humble
thanks
,
and
said
to
him
,
I
have
so
high
an
esteem
for
whatsoever
this
fair
Lady
is
concern'd
in
,
that
I
shall
make
it
my
business
to
sacrifice
all
you
think
most
excellent
in
me
to
her
satisfaction
and
yours
,
as
long
as
it
shall
please
his
Excellency
to
give
me
leave
to
be
of
his
retinue
.
How
,
replies
Leopoldus
,
may
we
expect
that
further
happiness
as
to
enjoy
your
company
for
some
time
?
I
see
no
reason
you
have
to
be
so
glad
of
it
,
replies
the
Marquess
,
for
you
are
to
know
,
that
Don
Pedro
Gil
is
fallen
deeply
in
love
with
your
Cousin
,
and
that
it
is
his
affection
hath
occasion'd
this
acquaintance
,
though
he
hath
assur'd
me
,
that
,
since
he
understood
she
was
design'd
for
you
,
that
Love
is
turn'd
into
a
pure
fraternal
friendship
,
and
under
that
innocent
passion
he
endeavours
to
oblige
her
what
lies
in
his
power
.
Be
pleas'd
to
take
my
further
assurance
of
it
,
says
Don
Pedro
,
that
no
thought
of
that
may
break
your
rest
;
for
that
consideration
laid
aside
,
I
should
think
my self
capable
to
raise
a
jealousie
even
in
Narcissus
himself
,
were
he
now
alive
:
for
I
dare
,
without
any
vanity
,
affirm
it
,
that
there
is
not
a
person
in
the
world
may
be
compar'd
to
me
either
as
to
gracefulness
of
body
;
or
accomplishments
of
mind
.
I
am
sufficiently
convinc'd
of
the
truth
of
what
you
say
,
says
Leopoldus
,
though
I
have
not
known
you
long
:
and
therefore
wholly
relying
on
the
promise
you
make
me
,
I
shall
fear
nothing
as
to
your
pretensions
,
which
were
they
any
other
Man's
,
I
should
not
be
guilty
of
so
great
an
indifference
.
With
these
discourses
,
they
got
to
the
Court
,
and
the
Ambassadour
being
alighted
at
his
House
,
he
there
found
many
Ladies
,
impatiently
expecting
the
arrival
of
the
fair
Lady
Margaret
,
who
was
receiv'd
out
of
her
Litter
into
the
arms
of
her
design'd
Husband
,
whereat
Don
Pedro
could
do
no
less
than
conceive
a
little
jealousie
.
Leopoldus
,
to
begin
the
demonstrations
of
his
Love
,
had
prepar'd
a
magnificent
Supper
,
to
which
were
invited
all
those
,
of
both
Sexes
,
who
were
come
thither
to
receive
the
Ambassadour
and
his
Daughter
.
Don
Pedro
went
to
Bed
presently
after
Supper
,
extreamly
troubled
in
mind
,
that
he
had
engag'd
himself
in
an
enterprize
,
wherein
he
found
so
great
difficulties
.
He
could
not
imagine
any
means
to
bring
it
about
,
so
as
that
he
might
come
off
with
credit
;
he
met
with
too
many
Obstacles
,
and
what
afflicted
him
most
of
all
,
was
,
the
resolution
the
Lady
had
taken
to
satisfie
her
Father's
desire
,
who
was
desirous
the
marriage
should
be
concluded
with
Leopoldus
,
though
he
had
been
acquainted
,
as
well
as
she
,
with
him
mis-carriages
.
Felician
could
not
forbear
grumbling
at
the
resolution
of
his
Master
,
which
must
have
ended
amidst
those
difficulties
.
He
expos'd
himself
as
an
Extravagant
person
in
a
Court
where
he
might
have
rais'd
himself
into
esteem
,
and
out
of
a
hope
not
likely
to
be
brought
to
any
effect
,
he
ran
himself
daily
into
new
inconveniences
.
The
Master
and
Servant
spent
some
part
of
the
night
in
discoursing
about
the
business
,
till
at
last
Don
Pedro
fell
asleep
,
with
a
resolution
to
discover
himself
to
his
Mistress
,
and
,
if
his
addresses
were
not
well
entertain'd
by
her
,
to
return
immediately
into
Galicia
.
The
visits
of
the
Cavaliers
and
Ladies
,
continu'd
six
days
,
during
which
time
the
Marquess
and
his
Daughter
were
often
seen
,
both
of
them
taking
much
pleasure
in
the
pleasant
demeanour
of
Don
Pedro
,
who
acted
the
part
he
had
undertaken
so
admirably
well
,
that
his
Extravagancies
became
the
discourse
of
the
whole
Court
,
all
speaking
of
him
as
one
of
the
most
humorous
Fools
that
had
come
upon
the
Stage
of
a
long
time
;
insomuch
that
some
advis'd
the
Ambassadour
to
bring
him
to
the
Palace
,
assuring
him
the
King
would
be
much
pleas'd
with
his
behaviour
.
Don
Pedro
coming
to
hear
of
it
,
seem'd
to
be
very
angry
,
and
excus'd
himself
,
out
of
a
fear
his
Majesty
might
not
entertain
him
,
suitably
to
his
quality
and
extraction
;
that
he
would
not
run
the
hazard
of
receiving
an
affront
,
and
that
the
least
dis-respect
shewn
him
would
force
him
to
violent
resentments
thereof
.
The
Ambassadour
press'd
him
no
further
,
lest
he
might
put
him
out
of
humour
,
perceiving
he
lik'd
not
the
proposal
,
and
put
it
off
to
some
other
time
,
when
haply
he
might
find
him
more
inclin'd
to
compliance
.
Leopoldus
,
who
was
also
Lodg'd
in
the
Ambassadour's
house
,
had
onely
two
Servants
to
wait
on
him
,
whom
he
trusted
with
the
knowledge
of
all
his
Love-adventures
.
It
happen'd
that
both
these
fell
Sick
at
the
same
time
,
a
time
when
he
should
have
shewn
more
reserv'dness
in
his
Amours
,
to
raise
himself
into
a
better
esteem
with
his
Mistress
;
but
he
,
on
the
contrary
,
minded
his
own
enjoyments
above
all
things
,
and
never
considering
the
present
posture
of
his
affairs
,
he
continu'd
his
Night-visits
,
as
he
was
wont
to
do
before
her
arrival
.
Being
thus
disappointed
of
their
attendance
,
who
were
best
acquainted
with
his
humours
,
he
conceiv'd
he
could
not
pitch
on
a
fitter
person
to
accompany
him
than
Felician
,
who
,
with
the
leave
of
his
Master
Don
Pedro
,
went
along
with
him
.
Finding
him
a
subtle
fellow
,
and
experienc'd
in
such
affairs
,
he
thought
him
a
person
fit
for
his
purpose
,
and
accordingly
that
he
might
trust
him
with
any
thing
.
He
took
him
along
with
him
three
or
four
nights
together
to
a
certain
House
,
out
of
which
he
came
at
a
very
unseasonable
hour
.
Though
Felician
went
in
with
him
,
yet
durst
he
not
be
so
impertinently
inquisitive
,
as
to
ask
who
was
the
Mistress
of
the
House
,
till
the
third
or
fourth
night
that
he
had
accompany'd
him
thither
;
and
then
being
alone
with
a
Servant-maid
(
who
taking
example
by
her
Mistress
began
to
express
some
kindness
towards
Felician
)
he
ask'd
her
whose
House
that
was
,
and
to
whom
Leopoldus
made
his
Visits
.
Love
and
Secrecy
are
seldome
found
in
the
same
Lodging
.
She
was
a
Servant
,
and
in
love
with
Felician
;
there
needs
no
more
be
said
,
to
make
it
apppear
,
that
she
satisfy'd
him
in
whatever
he
desir'd
to
know
.
Felician
understood
from
her
,
that
that
House
belong'd
to
his
Master's
Aunt
,
and
that
his
own
Sister
was
the
Person
whom
Leopoldus
had
at
rack
and
manger
,
upon
a
promise
of
Marriage
she
had
gotten
from
him
a
little
before
under
his
hand
,
she
,
by
reason
of
her
retiredness
,
being
innocently
ignorant
of
the
treaty
of
marriage
between
him
and
his
Cousin
the
Lady
Margaret
.
Felician
,
having
pump'd
out
all
these
particulars
,
fail'd
not
to
give
his
Master
an
account
thereof
the
next
day
.
Don
Pedro
was
extreamly
surpris'd
thereat
;
not
without
indignation
against
his
Sister
,
though
that
procedure
of
Leopold
rais'd
him
into
some
hope
of
effecting
his
design
,
presuming
the
more
upon
it
,
in
that
being
equal
,
as
to
birth
,
to
Leopold
,
he
was
resolv'd
ne
should
never
marry
any
other
,
than
her
whom
he
had
so
highly
dishonour'd
.
He
thereupon
commanded
Felician
to
acquaint
the
Maid
who
had
made
those
discoveries
to
him
,
that
the
marriage
of
Leopoldus
and
his
Cousin
was
agreed
upon
,
and
that
a
Messenger
was
sent
to
Rome
for
the
Dispensation
,
not
forgetting
the
rare
accomplishmen●s
of
the
Lady
Margaret
;
to
the
end
she
might
acquaint
his
Sister
therewith
,
to
see
what
course
she
would
take
,
and
how
she
would
remedy
the
affront
intended
her
.
He
punctually
executed
the
orders
he
had
receiv'd
from
Don
Pedro
,
so
that
the
night
following
Donna
Blanca
(
so
was
Don
Pedro's
Sister
called
)
was
acquainted
with
the
whole
business
.
She
thereupon
had
a
great
contestation
with
Don
Leopold
,
who
impudently
deny'd
that
he
had
any
thing
to
do
,
as
to
marriage
with
his
Cousin
.
In
fine
having
done
all
he
could
to
vindicate
himself
,
and
appease
Donna
Blanca
,
she
pretended
to
be
satisfy'd
with
him
,
provided
he
more
fully
justify'd
his
innocence
the
next
morning
.
So
she
dismiss'd
Leopold
,
who
went
away
well
satisfy'd
,
imagining
her
to
be
so
too
:
but
resolving
with
himself
not
to
give
her
any
visit
a
while
,
he
pretended
some
indisposition
.
Don
Pedro
understood
that
night
from
Felician
all
that
had
pass'd
between
Don
Leopold
and
his
Sister
,
and
was
extremely
incens'd
against
her
that
she
had
given
credit
to
the
deceitful
words
of
a
perfidious
man
.
However
he
thought
fit
to
let
pass
two
days
,
to
see
what
course
his
Sister
would
take
in
that
time
,
commanding
Felician
to
prosecute
his
discoveries
.
The
next
day
,
Don
Leopold
not
coming
to
clear
himself
,
as
he
had
promis'd
,
Donna
Blanca
was
so
enrag'd
,
that
she
would
stay
no
longer
,
but
resolv'd
to
be
satisfi'd
from
the
mouth
▪
the
Ambassador
,
of
the
affront
intended
to
be
done
her
.
She
took
a
Coach
,
and
veiling
her
face
,
came
to
his
house
,
but
at
such
an
unfortunate
time
,
that
she
met
Don
Leopold
at
the
door
,
who
,
discovering
who
she
was
,
presently
imagin'd
what
might
occasion
that
visit
,
and
that
her
coming
thither
was
to
acquaint
the
Ambassador
how
he
was
engag'd
to
her
,
and
to
shew
him
the
promise
of
marriage
.
Don
Leopold
receiv'd
her
with
extraordinary
kindness
,
which
she
taking
otherwise
than
he
expected
,
added
the
more
to
his
suspicion
.
He
told
her
,
he
had
something
particular
to
acquaint
her
with
,
and
entreated
her
to
go
along
with
him
to
a
room
at
some
distance
from
his
Uncle's
lodgings
.
Donna
Blanca
would
not
be
persuaded
a
good
while
to
give
him
that
satisfaction
,
telling
him
,
that
she
must
first
speak
with
the
Ambassador
,
and
that
afterwards
he
should
talk
with
her
as
long
as
he
pleas'd
.
That
Don
Leopold
endeavour'd
to
prevent
,
assuring
her
,
that
he
was
at
that
time
very
busie
,
looking
over
a
Pacquet
of
Letters
he
had
receiv'd
from
the
Emperor
.
He
was
so
importunate
with
her
,
that
she
would
hear
him
before
she
spoke
with
the
Ambassador
,
that
at
last
he
prevail'd
.
Whereupon
conducting
her
to
Don
Pedro's
chamber
,
he
entreated
him
to
keep
her
company
,
till
he
came
back
to
speak
with
her
.
Donna
Blanca
having
her
face
veil'd
all
this
time
,
Don
Pedro
knew
her
not
,
but
by
the
discoveries
he
had
receiv'd
,
he
suspected
her
to
be
his
Sister
.
On
the
other
side
,
he
was
so
transform'd
by
the
extravagance
of
his
cloaths
,
and
,
what
added
much
to
his
disguise
,
his
perpetual
wearing
of
Spectacles
,
that
she
could
not
have
the
least
imagination
of
his
being
her
Brother
.
Don
Pedro
kept
her
company
a
while
,
without
enquiring
into
the
occasion
of
her
coming
thither
,
and
at
last
,
leaving
her
lock'd
up
in
the
room
,
he
went
to
look
for
Don
Leopold
,
to
know
how
he
would
have
him
dispose
of
her
.
He
was
then
busie
with
his
Uncle
,
sent
one
to
desire
Don
Pedro
,
to
entertain
that
Lady
a
while
,
with
this
excuse
,
that
,
as
soon
as
he
could
,
he
would
come
and
dispatch
her
.
Don
Pedro
returning
to
his
Chamber
,
immediately
lock'd
the
door
.
In
the
mean
time
,
the
Lady
Margaret
had
understood
,
that
her
Cousin
had
spoken
to
a
Woman
with
her
face
veil'd
,
in
one
of
the
walks
leading
to
the
Ambassador's
house
,
and
desir'd
Don
Pedro
to
conduct
her
to
his
chamber
.
The
jealousie
she
conceiv'd
thereat
rais'd
in
her
a
desire
to
know
who
she
might
be
,
which
she
might
easily
discover
,
by
reason
there
was
a
passage
from
her
lodgings
to
Don
Pedro's
chamber
,
and
at
the
end
of
it
a
door
,
whereof
she
had
the
key
.
She
open'd
it
very
softly
,
lest
she
might
be
perceiv'd
,
and
that
just
as
Don
Pedro
,
coming
into
the
room
,
found
his
Sister
with
her
face
unveil'd
,
expecting
to
be
seen
onely
by
Don
Leopold
,
whom
onely
she
staid
for
.
As
soon
as
he
had
taken
a
sleight
view
of
her
,
he
made
this
discourse
to
her
.
Ungracious
and
unhappy
woman
,
unworthy
the
House
out
of
which
thou
art
descended
,
and
that
I
should
call
thee
my
Sister
!
Is
it
possible
thou
shouldst
be
guilty
of
so
strange
an
oblivion
of
thy self
,
as
,
relying
on
the
vain
promises
of
a
treacherous
person
,
to
come
into
this
house
to
seek
him
who
hath
abus'd
thee
,
and
to
whom
thou
hast
impudently
prostituted
thy self
?
Comest
thou
to
importune
a
man
that
hath
forgotten
thee
,
and
to
court
him
who
hath
so
palpably
deceiv'd
thee
?
If
,
besotted
with
a
fond
love
,
it
be
thy
design
to
be
married
to
him
,
thou
hast
friends
to
whom
thou
might'st
have
communicated
thy
desires
,
rather
than
have
abandon'd
thy self
to
a
man
who
treats
thee
with
so
much
contempt
,
and
,
notwithstanding
all
his
caresses
,
laughs
at
thee
in
his
sleeve
.
He
is
upon
the
point
of
marriage
with
his
Cousin
;
art
thou
so
simple
,
as
that
thou
onely
shouldst
be
ignorant
of
what
is
known
all
over
the
Court
?
Had
I
not
a
respect
for
the
place
where
thou
art
,
this
sword
should
dispatch
thy
criminal
Soul
into
the
other
world
,
that
thou
might'st
be
an
example
to
all
such
simple
Gulls
as
thou
art
.
Hast
thou
so
far
forgotten
the
respect
due
to
thy
Aunt
as
to
profane
her
house
,
by
assigning
Leopold
his
nocturnal
meetings
in
it
?
Thou
shouldst
have
bethought
thy self
who
thou
art
,
that
he
is
of
no
better
House
than
thy self
,
and
that
thy
quality
is
as
high
as
his
.
'T
is
a
great
happiness
to
thee
,
that
an
humour
took
me
to
come
into
this
Court
,
though
thou
seest
me
in
this
ridiculous
habit
,
to
prevent
,
what
lies
in
my
power
,
Leopold's
further
abuse
of
thee
;
which
I
will
do
with
the
hazard
of
my
life
.
Tell
me
,
infamous
woman
,
what
hath
pass'd
between
you
,
that
I
may
take
some
course
therein
,
and
dissemble
not
the
truth
in
any
thing
,
for
it
concerns
thee
no
less
than
honour
and
life
.
The
disconsolate
Donna
Blanca
heard
this
discourse
with
her
eyes
fastned
on
the
ground
and
flowing
with
tears
,
without
giving
him
the
least
interruption
:
but
at
last
,
to
obey
her
Brother
,
whose
indignation
she
saw
justly
grounded
,
she
told
him
,
in
few
words
,
how
Leopold
had
seen
her
at
a
certain
publick
meeting
,
that
he
lik'd
her
,
and
,
having
enquir'd
out
her
lodgings
,
he
had
sent
her
several
Letters
;
that
having
continu'd
his
addresses
to
her
with
great
demonstrations
of
affection
,
she
had
granted
him
entrance
into
the
house
,
and
that
upon
a
promise
of
marriage
under
his
hand
(
which
she
had
about
her
)
she
had
permitted
him
to
dispose
of
her
as
he
pleas'd
.
In
fine
,
she
gave
him
a
particular
account
of
all
that
had
happened
between
them
;
whereupon
he
,
to
add
no
more
to
her
affliction
,
put
her
in
some
hope
,
that
Leopold
should
be
forc'd
to
perform
the
promise
he
had
made
her
.
The
fair
Lady
Margaret
had
heard
all
this
discourse
,
at
the
door
which
was
between
her
lodgings
and
Don
Pedro's
chamber
,
extremely
astonish'd
how
a
person
of
quality
(
such
as
she
found
Don
Pedro
to
be
by
his
discourse
)
and
one
of
such
an
excellent
wit
,
could
put
on
a
Fool
's
coat
,
and
behave
himself
as
an
extravagant
in
their
house
,
and
all
about
the
Court
.
She
was
ignorant
of
the
causes
of
that
strange
Metamorphosis
,
and
yet
she
had
a
certain
suspicion
,
that
it
might
be
upon
her
account
.
On
the
other
side
,
she
reflected
on
the
double
treachery
of
her
Cousin
Don
Leopold
,
in
treating
of
a
marriage
with
her
,
having
given
a
promise
of
the
same
thing
to
another
,
and
that
a
person
so
highly
qualifi'd
as
Donna
Blanca
seem'd
to
be
.
Being
fully
satisfi'd
as
to
those
two
things
,
she
would
not
stand
to
hear
them
any
longer
,
but
rush'd
into
the
room
so
of
a
sudden
,
as
that
she
had
not
the
time
to
put
any
thing
over
her
face
,
nor
he
,
to
dissemble
his
indignation
.
Seeing
her
coming
towards
them
,
Ah
Madam
,
said
he
to
her
,
what
mean
these
Ambushes
?
What
's
your
design
therein
,
Sovereign
Princess
of
my
Soul
,
and
absolute
Directress
of
my
inclinations
?
Do
you
use
such
a
treachery
against
those
who
could
not
so
much
as
imagine
you
guilty
of
any
such
thing
?
I
wish
so
great
a
Beauty
would
not
give
me
any
more
such
apprehensions
,
for
another
surprise
of
this
nature
would
make
me
die
out
of
pure
joy
,
as
it
hath
been
the
fortune
of
others
to
die
out
of
an
excess
of
grief
.
There
is
no
dissembling
any
longer
,
replies
the
Lady
,
for
I
am
fully
assur'd
that
you
are
not
the
person
you
seem
to
us
to
be
,
and
that
the
affliction
you
are
in
requires
rather
secret
and
real
resentments
,
than
personated
extravagancies
.
My
curiosity
heightned
by
a
little
jealousie
,
procur'd
me
the
discovery
of
more
than
you
imagine
;
I
have
found
the
perfidiousness
of
my
Cousin
Don
Leopold
,
greater
towards
me
than
I
could
have
expected
,
considering
his
pretended
kindnesses
.
I
would
fain
be
deliver'd
out
of
the
confusion
I
am
in
,
and
I
earnestly
intreat
you
to
resolve
me
this
riddle
,
for
its
obscurity
perplexes
me
very
much
:
but
before
you
take
that
trouble
upon
you
,
give
me
leave
to
carry
this
Lady
your
Sister
to
my
lodgings
,
and
if
my
Cousin
comes
in
the
mean
time
to
enquire
after
her
,
you
may
tell
him
,
that
she
went
away
much
displeas'd
at
his
long
stay
,
and
leave
the
rest
to
me
.
Having
so
said
,
she
took
Donna
Blanca
along
with
her
,
assuring
her
she
would
do
all
lay
in
her
power
to
serve
her
,
which
put
her
in
hope
of
a
better
success
in
her
affairs
,
than
she
could
have
deriv'd
from
either
her
Brother's
indignation
or
Leopold's
treachery
.
The
Lady
Margaret
left
Donna
Blanca
among
her
Women
,
and
returns
to
Don
Pedro
,
who
though
at
first
supriz'd
at
the
sight
of
her
,
and
the
thought
of
her
having
over-heard
the
infamy
of
his
Sister
;
yet
was
he
withal
glad
of
it
,
since
her
jealousie
and
curiosity
had
discover'd
his
transformation
,
and
the
unhandsome
carriage
of
her
Cousin
.
Don
Pedro
therefore
was
very
glad
to
see
his
Mistress
return'd
,
as
might
be
seen
by
the
chearfulness
of
his
countenance
.
She
desir'd
him
to
take
a
chair
,
and
doing
the
like
her self
,
she
open'd
her
mind
to
him
in
these
words
.
I
have
been
in
an
extraordinary
confusion
for
some
days
past
,
and
so
incens'd
against
my
Cousin
Don
Leopold
,
to
see
the
strangeness
of
his
behaviour
towards
me
,
that
I
come
to
receive
your
advice
how
far
I
ought
to
resent
it
,
and
withal
to
be
satisfi'd
in
some
things
,
whereof
I
must
yet
acknowledge
my self
ignorant
.
One
is
,
and
that
much
raises
my
wonder
,
to
see
you
counterfeiting
the
Fool
and
Extravagant
,
in
a
Court
,
where
you
might
rather
act
the
part
of
a
person
of
Honour
and
Gallantry
,
as
having
the
advantage
of
being
Brother
to
so
fair
a
Lady
as
Donna
Blanca
,
who
,
besides
the
recommendation
of
beauty
,
seems
to
be
Mistress
of
many
other
good
qualities
.
You
may
infer
from
my
discourse
,
that
being
of
the
quality
I
suppose
you
to
be
,
you
dishonour
your self
in
representing
the
Natural
and
ridiculous
person
,
as
well
in
regard
of
the
habit
you
have
assum'd
,
as
the
extravagant
actions
wherewith
you
amuse
the
world
.
Which
since
I
cannot
imagine
you
would
do
but
that
there
must
be
some
great
mystery
in
it
,
I
am
the
more
desirous
to
know
your
motives
thereto
,
in
that
I
conceive
it
will
be
a
means
to
clear
my
mind
of
certain
doubts
which
now
lie
somewhat
heavy
upon
it
.
Having
deliver'd
this
with
the
best
grace
in
the
world
,
the
fair
Lady
was
silent
,
and
left
Don
Pedro
the
liberty
to
make
her
this
reply
.
If
you
find
me
at
any
loss
,
Madam
,
in
satisfying
your
desires
as
to
this
particular
,
I
question
not
but
you
will
have
the
goodness
to
attribute
it
,
to
that
distraction
poor
mortals
are
subject
to
,
when
they
address
themselves
to
the
objects
of
their
vows
and
adorations
.
You
cannot
be
ignorant
,
(
though
you
knew
it
not
by
experience
)
that
Love
is
a
powerful
Divinity
,
to
whom
men
sacrifice
all
things
;
no
impostures
but
he
invents
;
no
intrigues
but
he
is
author
of
;
no
difficulties
but
he
overcomes
,
to
compass
his
designes
.
This
premis'd
,
I
am
in
the
next
place
freely
to
acknowledge
,
that
the
day
you
pass'd
through
Ville-Franche
,
which
is
the
place
of
my
birth
,
I
found
my self
wounded
by
the
lightning
of
your
fair
eyes
.
I
did
all
lay
in
my
power
to
oppose
that
passion
;
but
it
still
prov'd
predominant
,
and
the
engagement
I
knew
there
was
between
you
and
your
Cousin
Don
Leopold
could
not
abate
ought
thereof
.
Nay
though
I
knew
all
the
particulars
of
that
engagement
,
wherein
you
rather
compli'd
with
the
commands
of
a
Father
then
your
own
inclinations
,
inasmuch
as
you
look'd
on
that
too
happy
Kinsman
,
as
a
fickle
person
,
unworthy
your
affection
,
a
truth
I
have
since
heard
confirm'd
by
your self
;
nay
though
I
saw
the
marriage
in
a
manner
concluded
,
yet
all
could
not
break
the
resolution
I
had
taken
to
disguise
my self
as
you
have
seen
to
traverse
it
,
and
fortune
now
seems
to
favour
my
designes
.
I
am
not
therefore
,
Madam
,
to
repent
me
of
the
slurre
I
may
have
put
upon
my
Bloud
and
the
noble
House
from
which
I
am
descended
,
in
acting
the
Fool
's
part
in
yours
,
into
which
it
was
my
business
to
introduce
my self
by
all
means
imaginable
,
since
the
imposture
hath
prov'd
so
fortunate
,
and
that
I
begin
to
conceive
some
hope
of
attaining
my
desires
.
You
know
,
Madam
,
that
I
durst
not
have
presum'd
to
make
you
a
real
discovery
of
my self
;
for
besides
that
I
should
run
the
hazard
of
not
finding
credit
with
you
,
I
came
in
at
a
time
when
your
marriage
was
in
too
great
forwardness
to
be
easily
cross'd
by
after-applications
.
In
fine
,
it
was
Heaven's
pleasure
,
that
a
strange
conjunction
of
my
Sister's
misfortune
,
and
your
own
just
jealousies
,
should
give
you
a
discovery
of
what
,
haply
,
I
should
yet
a
while
have
kept
from
your
knowledge
.
My
true
name
is
Don
Pedro
d'
Osorio
and
Toledo
,
and
consequently
I
may
affirm
my self
to
be
of
the
most
eminent
Families
of
Spain
,
since
I
am
descended
from
the
Seignors
of
Ville-Franche
and
Astorga
.
I
have
the
honour
to
be
Knight
of
the
Order
of
Alcantara
,
and
I
have
acquir'd
it
by
some
years
services
done
his
Majesty
in
Flanders
,
with
hopes
,
ere
long
,
to
be
gratify'd
with
an
advantageous
Commandery
.
I
have
given
you
an
account
of
my
Quality
,
and
have
not
conceal'd
from
you
my
presumption
.
All
I
how
now
to
Apologize
for
,
is
,
my
Love
;
and
,
I
am
the
more
confident
of
your
pardon
as
to
that
,
if
you
but
ever
so
little
consider
the
unavoidable
influence
of
your
own
attractions
.
Nay
I
cannot
but
account
it
a
happy
offence
,
since
it
hath
prov'd
the
occasion
of
your
being
undeceiv'd
;
and
when
I
make
a
joynt
reflection
on
my
own
happiness
,
and
my
Sister's
credulity
,
I
cannot
repent
me
of
a
disguise
,
whereof
the
satisfaction
infinitely
exceeds
the
shame
.
For
it
is
in
your
power
to
restore
me
the
honour
I
have
depriv'd
my self
of
,
onely
for
your
sake
;
and
I
shall
force
him
,
who
hath
cajoll'd
my
Sister
out
of
her
Honour
,
to
perform
the
promise
he
hath
made
her
,
or
it
shall
cost
him
his
Life
.
The
fair
Lady
was
ravish'd
to
hear
these
words
from
her
disguis'd
Lover
,
and
thought
her self
oblig'd
to
make
an
extraordinary
return
to
so
extraordinary
a
demonstration
of
affection
.
And
being
now
fully
undeceiv'd
as
to
the
Sycophancy
of
her
Cousin
Don
Leopold
,
she
made
him
this
Answer
.
Signor
Don
Pedro
,
That
you
have
,
upon
so
slight
a
ground
as
the
little
beauty
I
can
pretend
to
,
engag'd
your self
in
an
enterprize
so
prejudicial
to
your
reputation
and
descent
,
I
cannot
but
look
on
as
a
transcendent
expression
of
your
Love
;
though
I
do
not
excuse
you
as
to
this
,
that
the
noble
accomplishments
you
are
master
of
might
no
doubt
have
more
happily
and
more
worthily
been
otherwise
employ'd
.
I
have
resented
,
as
I
ought
,
the
little
respect
my
Cousin
express'd
towards
me
,
and
therefore
it
is
but
just
he
should
not
enjoy
me
,
since
it
may
be
inferr'd
from
the
forwardness
of
his
matching
with
another
,
that
he
never
truly
intended
it
.
It
must
needs
be
an
extraordinary
joy
to
me
,
that
I
am
undeceiv'd
before
we
were
joyn'd
by
that
Tye
which
onely
Death
can
dissolve
.
I
am
satisfy'd
as
to
the
little
affection
he
had
for
me
,
and
I
do
yours
but
justice
,
when
I
assure
you
,
that
I
shall
be
so
far
from
forgetting
it
,
that
I
shall
endeavour
all
lies
in
my
power
to
requite
it
.
This
was
deliver'd
with
so
obliging
an
accent
,
that
the
amorous
Cavalier
would
have
cast
himself
at
her
feet
,
would
she
have
permitted
it
.
He
return'd
her
his
thanks
with
a
thousand
submissions
for
so
extraordinary
a
favour
,
and
the
sweet
encouragement
she
was
pleas'd
to
give
his
Love
.
It
was
not
now
a
seasonable
time
to
expatiate
into
Complements
;
Donna
Blanca
was
left
in
the
Lady
Margaret's
Lodgings
,
whose
return
she
expected
,
and
Don
Pedro
look'd
for
Don
Leopold
,
to
enquire
after
the
Lady
he
had
recommended
to
his
custody
.
The
Lady
Margaret
went
to
comfort
her
whom
she
had
left
among
her
Women
,
and
to
put
in
execution
what
had
been
resolv'd
,
between
her
and
Don
Pedro.
About
half
an
hour
after
her
departure
thence
comes
Don
Leopold
to
his
Chamber
,
to
look
after
the
Lady
he
had
left
there
.
Don
Pedro
told
him
,
that
he
could
stay
her
no
longer
,
that
she
was
gone
,
thinking
he
would
not
have
come
to
her
again
.
Nay
then
,
I
am
glad
I
staid
so
long
,
says
Leopold
,
since
my
stay
hath
occasion'd
her
to
do
as
I
would
have
had
her
,
which
was
that
she
might
be
gone
out
of
the
house
.
This
Woman
plagues
me
extreamly
,
and
it
was
no
small
happiness
to
me
,
that
she
met
not
with
my
Uncle
,
for
I
should
have
been
much
troubled
had
she
had
any
discourse
with
him
.
Don
Pedro
ask'd
him
some
odd
questions
,
as
he
was
wont
to
do
,
to
sift
something
further
out
of
him
,
but
Don
Leopold
would
discover
no
more
.
The
other
easily
apprehended
,
by
the
little
had
fallen
from
him
,
what
course
he
intended
to
take
;
and
the
indignation
he
conceiv'd
at
his
slighting
of
his
Sister
was
so
great
,
that
it
was
not
without
much
violence
done
himself
,
he
forbore
calling
him
to
account
for
it
.
In
the
mean
time
the
Lady
Margaret
had
visited
Donna
Blanca
,
of
whom
she
had
receiv'd
a
punctual
relation
of
her
Loves
,
which
were
but
too
much
confirm'd
to
her
by
the
promise
of
Marriage
she
had
brought
with
her
.
And
after
she
had
entred
into
a
second
admiration
at
the
double
perfidiousness
of
her
Cousin
Don
Leopold
,
she
sent
to
desire
her
Father
to
come
to
her
,
who
being
alone
with
her
,
she
made
him
this
discourse
.
It
hath
ever
been
a
laudable
custom
,
that
Fathers
should
dispose
of
their
Daughters
in
Marriage
,
as
they
either
pleas'd
themselves
,
or
found
most
convenient
for
their
affairs
,
but
with
this
caution
,
that
it
should
not
be
absolutely
done
contrary
to
their
wills
and
inclinations
.
Many
are
yet
willing
to
do
so
,
out
of
a
presumption
,
that
Matrimony
will
change
Men's
humours
:
but
it
is
seldome
found
to
work
that
effect
.
Those
therefore
may
be
said
to
do
well
,
who
,
referring
the
success
to
the
higher
Powers
,
by
an
implicite
obedience
,
comply
with
the
disposal
of
their
Parents
:
but
those
,
in
my
judgement
do
better
,
who
use
some
precaution
,
and
endeavour
to
prevent
the
inconveniences
,
which
they
must
otherwise
fall
into
.
I
have
ever
been
ready
,
Sir
,
to
do
whatever
you
commanded
me
,
especially
in
the
business
now
in
agitation
,
though
I
have
found
my
Cousin
Don
Leopold
to
be
of
a
disposition
so
contrary
to
mine
,
that
I
promis'd
my self
little
satisfaction
from
our
being
joyned
together
in
the
inseparable
estate
you
intended
.
I
have
endeavour'd
to
obey
you
,
though
with
some
violence
to
my
own
inclinations
,
which
directed
my
affection
to
other
persons
not
inferiour
to
him
,
either
in
quality
or
estate
.
I
consented
to
this
Marriage
because
you
seem'd
so
much
to
desire
it
.
When
it
was
fully
concluded
,
there
was
a
person
sent
to
Rome
for
the
Dispensation
;
and
even
during
that
time
,
when
I
expected
my
Cousin
should
have
express'd
most
Love
to
me
,
I
have
found
he
hath
done
quite
contrary
,
since
he
hath
given
a
promise
of
Marriage
to
another
Lady
,
whom
you
shall
presently
see
.
She
thereupon
call'd
for
Donna
Blanca
,
whom
she
had
left
in
her
own
Chamber
,
and
who
immediately
came
before
the
Ambassadour
.
Having
dispos'd
her
into
a
Chair
,
the
Lady
Margaret
continu'd
her
discourse
.
This
,
Sir
,
is
the
Lady
I
spoke
of
,
to
whom
my
Cousin
hath
given
a
promise
of
Marriage
under
his
hand
,
which
she
now
hath
about
her
,
and
you
shall
see
,
how
this
perfidious
person
became
thereby
master
of
her
Honour
.
Coming
hither
to
speak
with
you
,
and
complain
of
the
affront
intended
her
,
she
met
him
,
who
,
giving
her
fair
wo
ds
,
lock'd
her
into
Don
Pedro's
Chamber
,
under
pretence
that
you
were
busie
,
and
that
it
would
be
long
ere
you
would
be
seen
by
her
.
Some
little
curiosity
occasion'd
my
going
to
that
door
,
which
is
between
my
Lodgings
and
his
,
and
there
I
came
to
the
knowledge
of
this
business
,
having
over-heard
some
part
of
their
discourse
.
I
thought
fit
to
bring
this
Lady
to
my
Chamber
,
to
give
you
further
satisfaction
of
so
pressing
a
Truth
.
Her
quality
is
great
,
since
she
is
of
the
House
of
Osorio
and
Toledo
,
two
of
the
most
illustrious
Families
of
Spain
:
She
is
resolv'd
to
make
the
case
known
to
her
Friends
,
who
are
very
noble
,
and
of
great
credit
in
this
Court
,
that
they
may
oppose
my
Marriage
and
prevent
our
common
affront
.
I
have
hitherto
obey'd
you
as
a
Father
,
I
now
appeal
to
you
as
my
Judge
,
and
I
be
seech
you
discharge
me
of
so
unjust
an
obedience
for
the
future
:
for
I
am
resolv'd
rather
to
confine
my self
for
the
rest
of
my
days
,
in
the
most
austere
Monastery
about
this
City
,
than
ever
be
Wife
to
a
Man
so
insensible
of
worth
and
honour
.
The
Ambassadour
was
extreamly
astonish'd
at
both
what
he
saw
,
and
what
he
had
heard
.
He
examin'd
the
promise
made
to
Donna
Blanca
,
and
found
,
that
that
discovery
alone
was
sufficient
to
prevent
his
Daughter's
marriage
with
Leopold
.
He
immediately
resolv'd
to
break
all
to
pieces
,
and
to
dismiss
his
Nephew
,
that
there
might
be
no
more
talk
of
the
business
.
He
caus'd
the
Ladies
to
with-draw
,
and
sent
for
his
Nephew
,
whom
he
shew'd
the
schedule
he
had
made
to
Donna
Blanca
,
asking
him
whether
he
knew
the
hand
.
He
not
a
little
troubled
,
and
changing
colour
,
began
to
deny
it
:
but
the
Ambassadour
told
him
,
that
as
he
could
not
do
it
sincerely
,
so
it
would
be
very
unhandsomely
proffer'd
,
since
the
truth
would
be
prov'd
by
several
of
his
Letters
written
with
the
same
hand
.
At
last
Don
Leopold
,
not
without
extream
confusion
,
acknowledg'd
,
that
,
blinded
by
Love
,
he
had
indeed
made
that
promise
,
but
he
would
lose
his
Life
ere
he
perform'd
it
.
Don
Pedro
having
quitted
his
Fool
's
coat
,
and
put
on
a
very
Rich
suit
,
with
the
Cross
of
Alcantara
on
the
Cassock
,
and
the
Cloak
,
heard
this
discourse
from
a
corner
of
the
Room
where
he
was
dispos'd
,
and
not
able
to
endure
any
longer
:
Signor
Leopold
,
said
he
coming
up
to
him
,
have
a
better
care
what
you
say
,
and
consider
her
quality
whom
you
injure
.
Her
birth
is
at
least
as
noble
as
yours
.
She
is
my
Sister
,
and
,
as
such
,
I
am
oblig'd
to
vindicate
and
protect
her
:
if
you
perform
not
the
promise
you
have
made
her
,
I
wear
a
Sword
by
my
side
which
shall
force
you
to
do
it
,
if
Honour
will
not
.
I
have
already
consider'd
what
I
am
in
duty
oblig'd
to
,
as
to
that
point
,
replies
Don
Leopold
,
and
no
Man
shall
force
me
,
by
menaces
,
to
do
any
thing
against
my
will
.
This
so
enrag'd
Don
Pedro
,
that
he
gave
Don
Leopold
a
challenge
.
The
dispute
grew
higher
and
higher
,
which
oblig'd
the
Ladies
to
come
in
between
them
,
and
to
give
order
the
doors
should
be
shut
,
lest
they
might
get
out
to
fight
.
While
these
things
pass'd
,
the
Ambassadour
minded
not
the
person
of
Don
Pedro
,
and
imagin'd
him
some
other
person
come
thither
after
his
Sister
:
for
,
seeing
him
so
well
clad
with
the
Cross
of
Alcantara
,
and
without
Spectacles
,
which
he
constantly
wore
,
he
knew
him
not
:
but
having
consider'd
him
better
,
he
found
that
he
who
challeng'd
his
Nephew
was
the
same
person
,
who
,
by
his
pleasant
extravagancies
,
had
found
him
so
much
sport
.
The
Lady
Margaret
perceiving
her
Father
had
his
Eyes
fasten'd
on
him
,
with
some
astonishment
,
imagin'd
the
cause
of
it
,
and
gave
it
a
check
in
these
words
.
He
,
Sir
,
whom
you
see
in
a
habit
so
different
from
that
he
was
wont
to
wear
,
and
who
seem'd
so
ridiculous
to
you
,
is
Don
Pedro
d'Osorio
and
Toledo
.
When
this
dispute
is
over
,
you
shall
know
the
motives
oblig'd
him
to
that
disguise
.
The
Ambassadour
was
the
more
astonish'd
at
that
,
and
would
have
press'd
his
Daughter
to
make
a
further
discovery
of
that
secret
,
had
he
not
seen
the
two
Cavaliers
,
with
Swords
drawn
,
ready
to
make
that
Room
the
place
of
their
Duel
.
He
ran
in
between
them
,
and
endeavour'd
by
mildness
to
persuade
his
Nephew
,
not
to
contest
in
a
business
,
which
was
not
to
his
advantage
;
that
if
he
satisfy'd
not
the
injur'd
Cavalier
,
mischief
would
follow
;
that
he
should
not
rely
on
any
protection
he
might
hope
from
him
,
inasmuch
as
seeing
the
little
reason
he
had
of
his
side
,
and
the
affront
he
intended
that
Lady
,
he
should
rather
be
against
him
,
by
assisting
his
Adversary
,
than
countenance
him
in
so
unjust
a
business
.
That
as
to
his
Daughter
,
he
might
quit
all
hope
of
her
,
that
he
should
never
be
her
Husband
,
and
that
it
would
discover
a
great
poorness
of
spirit
in
her
,
if
she
had
any
thoughts
of
kindness
for
him
,
after
she
had
been
so
unworthily
treated
by
him
.
Don
Leopold
,
finding
himself
press'd
with
reproaches
on
all
sides
,
and
withall
hearkning
to
the
advice
of
his
Conscience
,
thought
it
best
,
to
follow
his
Uncle's
counsel
.
He
thereupon
went
with
open
arms
to
his
true
Wife
,
to
whom
he
once
more
gave
his
hand
as
a
Husband
,
and
then
embrac'd
his
Brother-in-law
,
whom
he
yet
knew
not
.
The
Lady
Margaret
thought
it
a
good
opportunity
,
before
the
whole
Company
,
to
give
her
Father
an
accompt
how
Don
Pedro
had
fallen
in
love
with
her
,
how
he
got
into
his
Retinue
in
the
quality
of
a
Jeaster
;
that
she
conceiv'd
her self
oblig'd
to
requite
the
extraordinary
demonstration
of
his
affection
to
her
,
by
an
exchange
of
hers
to
him
,
if
her
Father
approved
thereof
.
The
old
Gentleman
had
so
much
mettal
left
,
as
to
admire
the
strange
conduct
of
Love
in
all
its
operations
,
and
particularly
,
how
it
made
the
wisest
Men
mad
,
and
the
Mad
wise
,
making
its
advantages
of
extravagance
it self
,
to
compass
its
designs
.
Without
any
further
demurring
,
he
gave
his
consent
,
whereupon
the
Lady
Margaret
took
him
by
the
hand
,
and
Don
Pedro
was
so
happy
,
as
,
by
odd
and
unlikely
means
,
to
see
all
his
desires
accomplish'd
.
The
solemnities
of
both
the
Marriages
were
put
off
till
eight
days
after
;
all
the
Grandees
about
the
Court
came
to
them
.
The
Balls
thereat
,
and
the
Tilting
were
extraordinary
:
but
what
more
nearly
touches
the
story
,
is
,
that
the
King
honour'd
these
two
Cavaliers
with
great
advantages
,
wherewith
Don
Pedro
had
also
those
of
a
numerous
issue
,
for
which
Don
Leopold
needed
not
much
to
have
envi'd
him
,
being
the
most
satisfi'd
man
in
the
world
with
his
choice
,
whom
he
infinitely
loved
,
and
thereby
made
it
appear
,
that
the
Inclinations
of
two
persons
,
before
they
are
united
by
Matrimony
,
though
by
some
intervening
occurrences
somewhat
remitted
,
may
yet
,
by
that
sacred
Tie
,
be
heightned
into
a
noble
and
vigorous
flame
of
perfect
Love
.
THE
Novel
was
lik'd
and
commended
by
all
that
heard
it
,
nay
Rufina
was
extremely
satisfi'd
therewith
.
Brother
Crispin
,
who
repos'd
a
very
great
confidence
in
her
,
was
nothing
troubled
that
she
should
over-hear
the
designs
laid
by
him
and
his
Camerades
to
search
those
places
,
where
they
had
notice
there
was
anybooty
.
Crispin
approved
of
some
of
the
Robberies
propos'd
by
them
,
and
oppos'd
others
,
for
the
inconveniences
he
found
in
the
execution
thereof
:
for
they
look'd
on
him
as
a
person
of
great
authority
among
them
.
His
experience
in
affairs
of
that
kind
was
such
,
that
he
assum'd
the
title
of
Director
,
or
rather
Dictator
of
that
famous
Society
:
insomuch
that
not
any
one
durst
contradict
what
he
had
once
decreed
.
It
was
by
this
time
grown
very
late
,
so
that
they
would
not
make
a
Divident
of
what
they
had
brought
in
that
night
,
leaving
it
to
be
done
at
the
next
meeting
,
and
committing
it
to
the
custody
of
the
Hermit
,
who
was
their
very
faithful
Steward
.
Crispin's
Companions
being
gone
to
their
quarters
,
he
thought
it
incivility
for
him
to
do
the
like
ere
he
had
made
a
visit
to
Rufina
,
to
wish
her
a
good
night's
rest
.
He
found
her
a
little
more
chearful
than
he
had
ever
observ'd
her
before
,
whereat
he
was
very
glad
.
He
ask'd
her
what
she
thought
of
the
Novel
;
she
told
him
,
that
she
thought
it
very
pretty
and
full
of
diversion
,
and
that
if
she
might
often
hear
the
like
,
they
would
procure
some
abatement
of
her
melancholy
.
Take
a
good
heart
,
Madam
,
says
the
Hypocrite
to
her
,
I
hope
you
will
here
see
an
end
of
your
affliction
;
we
shall
endeavour
to
find
you
all
the
divertisement
we
can
,
and
't
is
possible
you
may
not
repent
your
being
among
us
,
if
you
will
but
remit
something
of
your
reserv'dness
,
and
lay
aside
,
as
a
thing
extremely
strange
in
this
place
,
some
part
of
your
modesty
.
Rufina
thought
it
time
to
alleviate
her
severities
with
some
affability
,
and
to
quit
her
feigned
grief
.
From
that
time
,
she
began
to
treat
the
Hypocrite
with
greater
kindness
,
that
she
might
the
better
execute
the
design
she
had
to
make
a
Novice
of
an
old
Projector
.
Crispin
went
to
bed
,
half
laid
asleep
with
her
favourable
looks
,
and
the
hopes
derived
thence
,
that
the
Fort
would
within
a
short
time
be
reduc'd
,
since
he
had
made
his
approaches
so
near
,
and
taken
off
the
Mask
of
his
feign'd
Hypocrisie
.
The
next
morning
at
the
very
break
of
day
,
Crispin's
companions
left
the
Hermitage
,
to
seek
out
their
livelihood
,
at
their
cost
,
who
least
mistrusted
them
.
The
Hermit
himself
was
soon
after
for
his
march
into
the
City
,
to
beg
alms
,
where
he
was
wont
to
receive
any
.
He
went
to
take
his
leave
of
Rufina
,
who
desir'd
him
to
make
very
diligent
enquiry
for
her
Brother
,
giving
him
the
marks
of
his
face
,
person
,
and
cloaths
,
much
different
from
those
whereby
Garay
might
have
been
found
out
.
He
lock'd
the
door
on
the
out-side
,
and
carried
away
the
key
with
him
,
which
Rufina
was
not
much
troubled
at
;
for
she
had
brought
with
her
from
Corduba
some
of
those
keys
,
which
open
all
locks
,
an
invention
better
than
Picklocks
,
and
some
other
devices
,
which
she
had
used
at
the
Genoese's
.
Thus
was
she
left
all
alone
in
the
Hermitage
,
having
before-hand
appointed
Garay
to
come
to
her
as
soon
as
Brother
Crispin
got
to
Malaga
;
which
he
accordingly
did
,
mounted
on
one
of
the
two
horses
he
had
brought
with
him
.
Rufina
having
heard
him
,
open'd
the
door
,
and
gave
him
a
short
account
what
trade
Brother
Crispin
drove
,
of
his
falling
in
love
with
her
,
and
how
there
was
a
considerable
summe
of
mony
in
the
Hermitage
,
brought
thither
the
night
before
by
his
Camerades
.
Rufina
had
resolv'd
to
carry
away
all
the
ready
mony
,
in
order
whereto
,
she
sent
away
Garay
back
to
the
City
,
to
get
some
sleeping-powders
,
to
be
administred
to
Crispin
at
his
return
,
that
so
they
might
have
the
whole
night
to
do
their
work
in
.
Garay
brought
the
powder
's
before
Crispin
got
home
,
for
he
spent
the
whole
day
in
begging
,
and
return'd
not
to
the
Hermitage
till
towards
night
.
Being
got
home
,
he
was
very
kindly
receiv'd
by
Rufina
,
whereat
he
was
transported
with
joy
,
for
he
grew
more
and
more
in
love
with
her
.
He
shew'd
her
what
he
had
gather'd
that
day
,
and
besides
what
had
been
voluntarily
given
him
,
he
had
very
uncharitably
taken
,
of
his
own
accord
,
two
silver
spoons
,
and
a
neck-lace
of
pearl
.
The
neck-lace
he
immediately
presented
Rufina
with
,
and
put
it
about
her
neck
,
with
a
thousand
amorous
complements
.
She
gave
him
infinite
thanks
for
his
Present
,
after
which
they
supp'd
very
merrily
together
,
he
ever
and
anon
entertaining
her
with
some
discoveries
of
his
love
,
whereto
she
gave
him
very
favourable
Answers
,
promising
it
should
not
be
long
ere
he
had
of
her
what
he
so
much
desired
.
It
had
been
ordered
among
the
Ferrets
that
frequented
the
Hermitage
,
at
the
last
Committee
,
that
a
general
meeting
should
be
had
there
that
night
,
as
well
for
the
division
of
the
former
booty
,
as
the
making
of
new
proposals
.
Crispin
,
who
was
not
willing
Rufina
should
be
seen
,
and
expected
some
secret
kindness
of
her
,
thought
it
concern'd
him
to
prevent
it
.
As
soon
as
they
were
come
together
,
he
found
out
an
evasion
to
disperse
them
.
He
told
them
,
that
he
had
received
notice
from
the
City
,
that
there
was
a
strict
search
made
for
a
person
who
had
treacherously
murther'd
another
;
and
inasmuch
as
Sacred
places
were
no
Sanctuaries
for
such
cowardly
Offenders
,
he
feared
there
would
be
some
sent
to
the
Hermitage
,
and
if
it
chanc'd
any
one
of
them
should
be
apprehended
for
some
other
crimes
,
he
might
be
seiz'd
and
carried
away
prisoner
,
and
afterwards
,
brought
to
the
Torture
,
confess
what
he
had
not
been
charg'd
with
at
his
apprehension
.
Persons
of
that
profession
are
commonly
startled
at
any
thing
;
accordingly
they
soon
credited
what
their
Director
said
to
them
and
left
the
Hermitage
,
adjourning
the
Assembly
to
the
fourth
night
after
.
By
this
means
Crispin
was
left
alone
in
the
Hermitage
,
with
his
Mistress
,
who
had
promis'd
to
give
him
satisfaction
that
night
;
whereat
he
was
almost
out
of
himself
for
joy
,
thinking
he
should
never
see
the
hour
,
that
should
give
him
the
possession
of
that
Beauty
.
Soon
after
they
went
to
supper
,
which
was
very
magnificent
,
for
Crispin
had
brought
some
,
both
wild
and
tame
,
fowl
,
ready
for
the
spit
,
and
a
good
large
bottle
of
Malaga
,
which
is
the
best
of
any
wine
in
Spain
.
Rufina
having
plaid
the
cook
,
and
made
all
things
ready
,
they
began
both
to
eat
very
heartily
,
their
minds
disburthen'd
of
all
care
and
trouble
;
healths
were
drunk
,
Rufina
out-vying
the
Hermit
at
that
exercise
,
and
having
the
management
of
the
bottle
,
she
took
care
that
Crispin
never
drunk
without
the
powder
prepar'd
for
him
.
He
drunk
as
liberally
as
the
other
fill'd
,
till
at
last
,
tumbling
down
under
the
table
,
he
fell
dead
asleep
,
insomuch
that
Rufina
,
to
try
whether
the
potion
had
wrought
its
effect
,
pull'd
him
by
the
ears
and
nose
,
to
awake
him
,
but
it
was
to
as
little
purpose
as
if
she
had
done
it
to
a
dead
corps
.
With
that
assurance
,
she
went
down
into
the
Cellar
,
which
was
under
ground
,
and
out
of
certain
chests
she
found
there
,
she
took
all
the
mony
she
met
with
,
whereof
there
was
no
small
quantity
.
She
dispos'd
it
into
bags
,
which
she
ty'd
with
cords
,
and
into
long
leather
pouches
,
wherein
the
Thieves
had
brought
it
,
they
having
robb'd
a
rich
Drover
who
was
going
to
Madrid
.
That
done
,
Rufina
comes
out
,
and
,
by
a
signal
,
got
Garay
to
her
,
who
lay
hard
by
perdue
for
that
purpose
.
They
took
all
the
ready
mony
they
could
find
and
put
it
on
Garay's
Bay
,
and
got
up
on
the
other
horse
,
and
put
forward
towards
Mal●ga
,
extremely
pleas'd
that
they
had
so
easily
trapann'd
the
subtilest
and
most
experienc'd
Thief
in
Europe
.
They
left
some
things
behind
them
,
which
might
have
been
well
worth
the
conveyance
thence
;
but
it
was
a
Maxim
of
theirs
,
never
to
burthen
themselves
with
any
thing
that
might
be
known
or
challeng'd
.
They
soon
got
to
Malaga
,
and
took
up
their
quarter
's
in
Garay's
Inn
,
Rufina
not
being
seen
by
the
people
of
the
house
,
that
night
nor
the
next
day
.
She
knew
what
night
the
Conclave
of
the
Hermitage
was
to
meet
;
but
ere
I
tell
you
what
course
she
took
,
me-thinks
I
hear
Crispin
snoring
,
and
calling
to
me
,
to
give
an
account
of
him
.
He
spent
that
night
more
innocently
than
he
had
done
any
one
of
a
long
time
before
,
for
,
never
stirring
from
the
place
where
he
had
fallen
asleep
after
supper
,
it
may
be
presum'd
he
thought
no
hurt
.
By
that
time
the
Sun
was
got
high
enough
to
raise
the
flies
from
creeping
to
flying
,
he
awoke
,
having
not
the
least
apprehension
of
what
had
happened
to
him
in
the
night
.
He
call'd
Rufina
,
recollecting
himself
so
far
,
that
by
his
excessive
sleepiness
he
had
miss'd
the
opportunity
he
had
so
much
wish'd
for
;
but
all
his
calling
was
to
no
purpose
.
He
sought
her
all
about
the
house
,
in
the
Church
,
in
the
Cellar
,
and
not
finding
her
,
he
went
out
into
the
fields
to
look
for
her
,
thinking
some
strange
accident
must
needs
happen
to
her
,
when
he
found
all
the
doors
lock'd
.
He
made
a
second
search
for
her
,
but
finding
the
chests
open'd
,
and
the
bags
of
white
and
yellow
pieces
dislodg'd
,
he
was
convinc'd
of
his
being
robb'd
,
and
that
the
poor
innocent
woman
,
frightned
by
the
thieves
,
had
made
her
escape
,
and
lay
lurking
somewhere
about
the
neighbouring
fields
,
inasmuch
as
she
would
not
venture
to
go
far
in
a
dark
night
.
He
sought
after
her
till
he
grew
weary
,
but
she
was
got
far
enough
out
of
his
reach
.
At
last
,
hearing
no
account
of
her
,
it
came
into
his
mind
that
she
might
be
guilty
of
the
robbery
;
which
struck
him
so
to
the
heart
that
he
was
ready
to
hang
himself
,
to
think
that
so
famous
a
Rogue
,
and
one
that
had
been
,
for
so
many
years
,
the
Dictator
of
a
Crew
of
Villains
,
should
be
so
basely
trapann'd
by
a
woman
;
and
then
he
inferr'd
that
all
she
had
done
was
onely
to
bring
him
into
the
noose
.
However
,
he
went
that
day
,
as
he
was
wont
to
do
,
to
Malaga
,
to
try
if
he
might
find
her
in
the
City
.
He
met
Garay
,
but
having
never
seen
him
before
,
he
was
never
the
nearer
.
Rufina
and
Garay
had
set
things
in
order
for
their
departure
to
Casteel
;
but
she
would
not
go
till
she
had
serv'd
the
hyppocritical
Hermit
such
a
scurvy
trick
as
that
she
might
never
fear
any
requital
from
him
.
She
knew
the
time
of
their
meeting
at
the
Hermitage
,
a
place
intended
for
other
uses
than
to
be
the
Rendezvous
of
a
pack
of
high-way-men
and
house-breakers
.
That
they
might
be
all
found
together
,
to
receive
the
chastisement
due
for
their
villanies
,
she
writ
a
Letter
to
one
of
the
Magistrates
,
acquainting
him
with
the
time
,
when
,
and
the
place
where
he
should
find
the
Malefactors
,
and
how
they
might
be
taken
.
That
done
,
Garay
and
Rufina
took
their
way
for
Toledo
,
towards
which
place
,
we
shall
leave
them
on
their
way
,
to
give
an
account
what
was
done
upon
the
Letter
.
As
soon
as
it
was
night
,
the
Magistrate
,
attended
by
some
of
his
men
,
went
to
the
Hermitage
,
besieg'd
it
,
and
got
in
.
He
found
in
the
first
place
Crispin
,
little
thinking
to
receive
such
a
visit
:
yet
was
it
seasonable
as
to
the
present
securing
of
his
life
;
for
they
were
beginning
to
squabble
about
the
mony
lost
,
and
the
others
charg'd
Crispin
with
treachery
,
and
't
is
likely
he
had
had
the
worse
among
them
,
being
but
one
to
three
.
Having
secur'd
him
,
they
search'd
the
whole
house
,
and
at
last
,
went
into
the
Cellar
,
where
they
found
his
Companions
,
as
also
ladders
of
cords
,
pick-locks
,
iron-crows
,
and
all
the
other
engines
fit
for
Gentlemen
of
their
profession
.
They
also
search'd
the
chests
,
in
which
they
found
several
pieces
of
Plate
,
and
other
things
of
value
,
undeniable
demonstrations
of
the
devout
exercises
of
that
vertuous
company
.
They
were
all
taken
and
brought
away
Prisoners
.
Crispin
himself
was
so
much
at
a
loss
,
that
he
knew
not
what
Answer
to
make
to
what
was
ask'd
him
.
Whereupon
one
of
the
Officers
made
him
this
comfortable
discourse
:
Ungracious
and
unfortunate
man
,
vile
Hypocrite
,
who
,
cover'd
with
the
cloak
of
sanctity
,
dost
commit
such
robberies
!
How
will
the
world
be
surpriz'd
to
find
it self
so
mistaken
in
thee
?
How
will
others
,
who
have
entred
into
that
holy
profession
of
renouncing
the
world
and
its
enjoyments
,
suffer
in
the
respects
of
men
,
when
the
infamous
History
of
thy
life
comes
to
be
publish'd
?
Were
not
the
charitie
's
bestow'd
on
thee
every
day
by
so
many
good
people
,
sufficient
for
thy
competent
subsistance
,
that
thou
might'st
spend
thy
time
comfortably
in
a
place
so
holy
and
so
convenient
for
the
serving
of
God
as
this
is
,
but
thou
must
give
thy self
over
to
the
basest
and
most
disgraceful
employment
in
the
world
?
Thou
art
now
fallen
into
my
hands
,
and
I
promise
thee
,
that
neither
thou
,
nor
thy
companions
,
shall
get
out
of
them
,
till
you
are
to
be
honourably
conducted
to
the
Gallows
or
some
worse
place
.
With
these
just
reproaches
,
he
carried
them
away
to
the
City
,
where
they
were
condemn'd
to
die
,
all
the
others
having
,
upon
the
Rack
,
confessed
several
crimes
,
charging
Crispin
to
have
been
the
man
,
who
gave
them
intelligence
of
the
robberies
,
that
were
to
be
committed
,
and
many
times
open'd
the
door
for
the
better
execution
thereof
.
As
for
his
part
,
he
express'd
so
much
courage
and
resolution
in
the
midst
of
his
torments
,
that
he
obstinately
deni'd
whatever
was
laid
to
his
charge
.
Yet
could
not
all
prevent
the
passing
of
the
sentence
upon
him
,
but
the
execution
of
it
was
a
little
delai'd
,
as
to
him
,
by
reason
of
his
falling
into
a
violent
Feaver
in
the
prison
:
but
his
companions
were
all
truss'd
out
of
the
way
.
Not
long
after
,
Crispin
being
,
upon
his
recovery
,
to
follow
them
,
went
out
of
the
prison
,
at
noon-day
,
in
womans
cloaths
,
not
without
the
great
astonishment
of
all
the
world
,
who
expected
to
see
his
Exit
hence
,
and
to
the
greater
affliction
of
the
Jayler
,
who
was
conceiv'd
to
have
been
corrupted
with
mony
,
and
to
have
set
him
at
liberty
.
But
he
clear'd
himself
,
by
producing
the
person
who
had
furnish'd
him
with
the
cloaths
,
wherewith
he
had
disguis'd
himself
,
who
was
condemn'd
to
spend
the
remainder
of
his
life
,
though
he
liv'd
ninety-nine
years
,
in
the
Gallies
.
The
end
of
the
Third
Book
.
LA
PICARA
,
OR
The
Triumphs
of
Female
Subtilty
.
The
Fourth
Book
.
Rufina
and
Garay
were
by
this
time
gotten
to
the
Imperial
City
of
Toledo
,
where
they
had
resolv'd
to
settle
themselves
.
To
give
the
greater
credit
to
her
reputation
,
she
pretended
that
Garay
was
her
Father
,
and
took
a
very
fair
House
in
the
most
eminent
quarter
of
the
City
;
her
train
consisting
of
a
Slave
she
had
bought
at
Malaga
,
a
waiting
Gentlewoman
,
a
Lackquey
,
and
a
Gentleman-usher
,
she
had
taken
up
at
Toledo
.
She
put
on
the
habit
of
a
Widdow
,
and
Garay
,
very
handsomely
clad
for
a
person
of
his
Age
,
went
under
the
name
of
Don
Jeronimo
,
and
she
under
that
of
Donna
Emerentiana
,
their
Surname
de
Menezez
,
assuming
their
descent
from
the
illustrious
Family
of
those
,
who
,
under
that
name
,
are
so
well
known
in
Portugal
.
She
bought
Houshold-stuff
suitable
to
the
condition
of
a
Widdow
of
Quality
,
and
accordingly
she
was
visited
by
the
chiefest
Ladies
of
the
Quarter
,
who
were
extreamly
satisfy'd
,
as
well
with
the
charms
of
her
beauty
as
those
of
her
conversation
,
insomuch
that
they
accounted
themselves
very
happy
in
her
Neighbour-hood
.
She
soon
became
acquainted
with
many
of
her
own
Sex
,
who
took
for
Gold
all
that
Glister'd
in
that
subtle
Woman
.
Going
every
day
to
hear
Mass
in
the
great
Church
,
it
could
not
be
long
ere
she
was
observ'd
by
some
of
the
young
Gallantillos
of
the
City
,
who
,
having
dispatch'd
their
Devotions
,
spend
some
time
in
contemplations
of
the
Ladies
who
may
be
present
.
Accordingly
,
she
being
noted
to
be
one
newly
come
to
Toledo
,
and
withall
very
handsome
,
there
wanted
not
those
who
began
to
Languish
for
her
,
and
make
their
Addresses
to
her
.
While
she
is
informing
her self
who
were
the
richest
and
likely
to
have
most
ready
Money
,
that
she
might
not
,
for
want
of
practice
,
forget
her
old
Trade
.
We
shall
leave
her
taking
her
measures
,
and
her
new
Gallants
preparing
for
their
amorous
adventures
,
and
take
a
turn
to
Malaga
,
to
see
what
became
of
Crispin
,
after
he
had
so
cleaverly
got
out
of
Prison
.
Finding
himself
once
more
at
liberty
,
he
left
Malaga
,
and
got
into
a
Wood
,
not
far
from
the
City
,
where
he
continu'd
till
Night
,
and
then
he
went
to
the
Hermitage
,
where
he
had
Liv'd
many
years
in
the
reputation
of
a
good
Christian
,
and
a
person
of
a
very
exemplary
Life
.
As
soon
as
he
was
convicted
of
the
crimes
laid
to
his
charge
,
there
was
put
into
his
place
a
very
Religious
man
,
who
went
about
to
several
Churches
,
begging
alms
,
to
build
a
little
Hospital
there
.
He
was
not
as
yet
fully
setled
in
the
Hermitage
,
the
place
being
not
yet
furnish'd
.
Crispin
got
thither
in
the
night
,
and
opposite
to
the
South-side
of
it
found
a
place
,
where
he
had
laid
up
somewhat
against
a
Rainy
day
.
Breaking
up
the
ground
with
a
Hoe
he
had
left
in
the
Wood
,
he
came
at
last
to
a
little
Earthen
pot
,
wherein
was
a
Bagg
,
and
in
that
all
the
Money
he
had
reserv'd
,
of
all
the
Robberies
he
had
been
engag'd
in
;
for
he
ever
had
two
shares
of
the
Booty
,
for
his
two
Offices
of
Director
,
and
Concealer
,
of
the
good
Company
which
frequented
the
Hermitage
.
With
that
Summ
,
which
might
amount
to
five
or
six
hundred
pounds
sterling
,
all
in
Gold
,
he
went
to
the
City
of
Jaën
,
where
he
had
a
friend
of
the
same
profession
.
This
friend
of
his
had
heard
of
his
escape
out
of
Prison
,
whereat
he
had
been
not
a
little
troubled
,
inasmuch
as
he
might
have
made
some
commemoration
of
his
Camerade
upon
the
Rack
,
with
whom
he
had
been
engag'd
in
several
Robberies
.
He
was
very
glad
to
see
Crispin
at
liberty
,
in
hopes
of
his
direction
and
assistance
in
some
new
enterprises
.
Crispin
was
but
poorly
accoutred
,
as
having
been
uncas'd
of
the
Hermit's
habit
,
which
he
had
shewn
himself
unworthy
of
;
but
the
Bagg
he
had
so
well
Lin'd
was
a
soveraign
remedy
against
Nakedness
.
He
gave
his
companion
Money
to
buy
him
a
Light-colour'd
suit
,
and
having
taken
off
his
long
Beard
,
he
put
on
a
Periwig
,
which
,
with
a
Sword
by
his
side
,
disguis'd
him
so
that
he
seem'd
to
be
quite
another
Man
,
and
not
to
be
easily
known
even
by
those
who
had
been
particularly
acquainted
with
him
.
In
that
Equipage
he
continu'd
some
time
at
Jaen
,
till
there
happen'd
an
opportunity
to
commit
a
considerable
Robbery
at
Andujar
,
which
was
very
faithfully
divided
between
him
and
his
companion
.
But
fearing
the
person
who
had
been
Robb'd
would
make
a
diligent
search
after
them
,
Crispin
thought
it
their
best
course
to
be
gone
thence
in
time
,
the
adventure
at
Malaga
being
still
fresh
in
his
memory
.
They
took
into
their
company
a
third
person
,
whom
they
met
with
by
chance
,
a
young
Man
,
born
and
bred
in
the
City
of
Valentia
;
and
they
came
to
Toledo
,
where
they
had
never
been
but
as
they
travell'd
through
it
.
The
new
Camerade
they
had
taken
in
,
was
call'd
Jaimo
,
a
poor
Rope-maker's
Son
of
Valentia
,
who
,
for
some
roguish
exploits
he
had
done
there
,
which
brought
him
some
Money
,
had
been
oblig'd
to
absent
himself
thence
for
some
years
.
He
was
a
handsome
,
fair-hair'd
,
sprightly
young
Man
,
and
besides
the
accomplishments
of
his
person
,
he
had
an
excellent
Wit
,
and
was
not
inferiour
,
in
subtilty
,
to
either
Crispin
or
his
Camerade
.
This
young
Adonis
went
very
Gallantly
,
upon
their
charges
who
either
were
ignorant
or
mindless
of
the
old
Proverb
,
Fast
bind
,
fast
find
.
He
had
the
art
to
transform
into
the
current
Mode
all
the
Cloaths
he
got
by
slight
of
hand
,
and
so
disguis'd
them
by
changing
the
Laces
and
Trimming
,
that
the
very
Owners
could
not
have
known
them
.
On
a
certain
Festival
day
,
he
put
on
a
very
Rich
suit
,
and
went
along
with
Crispin
to
Mass
,
in
the
great
Church
,
and
into
the
same
Chappel
,
where
Rufina
was
at
her
Devotions
,
under
the
name
of
Donna
Emerentiana
.
Though
,
as
I
told
you
,
she
was
in
a
Widdow's
habit
,
Crispin
knew
her
at
the
first
blush
,
and
was
not
a
little
glad
to
see
her
.
He
kept
himself
from
her
knowledge
,
for
fear
of
being
discover'd
,
though
there
was
no
great
fear
of
it
,
as
he
was
then
accoutred
.
He
shew'd
Rufina
to
his
Camerade
Don
Jaimo
,
who
was
infinitely
taken
with
her
;
and
having
desir'd
him
to
dogg
her
,
so
as
she
might
not
perceive
it
,
he
did
it
so
cunningly
,
that
he
kept
his
Eye
on
her
,
though
seeming
to
look
another
way
,
till
he
saw
her
go
into
her
House
.
He
was
very
glad
to
hear
by
the
Neighbours
,
that
she
Liv'd
there
,
and
that
in
great
Reputation
,
under
the
name
of
Donna
Emerentiana
de
Menezez
,
lately
come
from
Badajos
,
with
her
Father
,
to
live
at
Toledo
.
Crispin
had
a
devillish
pique
against
her
,
for
the
scurvy
trick
she
had
shewn
him
at
Malaga
,
and
heartily
swore
,
that
since
he
had
so
fortunately
discover'd
her
,
he
would
not
leave
Toledo
,
ere
he
had
call'd
her
to
an
accompt
for
the
Money
she
had
carried
away
from
the
Hermitage
,
together
with
the
interest
,
and
all
the
charges
of
his
Imprisonment
.
To
compass
his
design
,
he
instructed
Jaimo
what
he
had
to
do
,
and
whom
he
should
represent
,
without
making
a
real
discovery
of
himself
to
her
.
It
was
not
long
ere
an
opportunity
offer'd
it self
to
prosecute
the
design
they
had
agreed
upon
.
One
evening
,
about
an
hour
before
night
,
there
chanc'd
to
be
a
quarrel
in
the
Street
,
where
Rufina
liv'd
,
wherein
there
were
two
Men
wounded
.
The
Officers
of
Justice
presently
came
in
,
and
carried
the
wounded
to
their
Houses
to
be
dress'd
,
and
secur'd
some
others
that
happen'd
to
be
then
in
the
street
,
though
nothing
engag'd
in
the
quarrel
;
which
occasion'd
others
to
run
for
't
,
it
being
no
great
pleasure
to
come
into
trouble
and
restraint
for
another
Man's
crime
.
Crispin's
plot
took
its
rise
from
that
Quarrel
.
Jaimo
,
instructed
by
that
subtle
Hypocrite
what
he
had
to
do
,
had
taken
the
Cross
of
Knight
of
the
Order
of
Montesa
,
an
honour
bestow'd
by
the
King
onely
on
the
natural
Inhabitants
of
the
Kingdome
of
Valentia
;
and
to
that
purpose
he
had
gotten
a
very
light
handsome
black
suit
made
him
.
In
this
Equipage
,
being
come
to
Rufina's
house
,
and
having
given
his
Cloak
to
Crispin
,
he
drew
his
Sword
,
and
went
in
,
acting
the
part
of
a
Man
much
astonish'd
.
Finding
the
door
which
led
up
stairs
open
,
he
goes
up
,
and
came
into
the
room
where
the
jovial
Widdow
was
with
her
Maids
.
They
were
a
little
startled
to
see
a
Man
coming
in
to
them
with
his
Sword
drawn
,
without
a
Cloak
,
and
in
a
manner
frightned
out
of
his
Wits
.
Rufina
rose
from
the
place
where
she
was
sate
,
and
found
the
Impostor
in
the
posture
of
a
suppliant
,
addressing
himself
to
her
in
these
words
.
If
compassion
be
not
at
too
great
a
distance
from
so
beautiful
a
countenance
,
be
pleas'd
,
Madam
,
to
let
your
House
be
my
Sanctuary
against
the
Officers
of
Justice
by
whom
I
am
pursu'd
.
That
I
have
Kill'd
a
man
,
I
must
acknowledge
,
but
it
was
in
my
own
defence
,
in
this
street
,
where
he
had
set
upon
me
with
advantage
.
The
Officers
persuing
me
at
the
heels
,
I
had
infallibly
been
taken
,
had
I
not
very
courageously
made
my
party
good
,
by
laying
two
of
the
most
forward
with
their
Bellies
to
the
Sun
,
who
with
the
Commissary
had
me
in
a
manner
by
the
Collar
.
I
escap'd
from
the
rest
,
by
the
pure
activity
of
my
Leggs
;
for
it
is
prudence
for
a
Man
to
give
way
to
the
Magistrate
,
whom
he
is
oblig'd
to
respect
.
But
they
persisting
still
in
the
pursuit
,
I
found
your
House
open
for
my
safety
,
and
I
have
taken
the
boldness
,
shutting
the
door
after
me
,
to
come
up
into
your
Chamber
.
I
therefore
most
humbly
beseech
you
Madam
,
if
it
may
be
done
without
your
inconvenience
,
that
you
would
dispose
me
into
some
secret
corner
of
your
House
,
till
the
people
now
in
the
street
be
dispers'd
,
and
that
I
may
safely
go
hence
.
But
if
my
presumption
puts
you
to
any
distraction
,
or
give
you
any
trouble
,
you
need
onely
give
me
the
least
signal
,
and
I
will
immediately
go
out
into
the
Street
,
though
I
were
sure
to
leave
my
Life
in
it
,
as
choosing
rather
the
horrours
of
Imprisonment
,
than
to
be
over-importunate
to
so
fair
a
Lady
.
We
have
already
given
a
description
of
this
fine
Orator
.
Rufina
look'd
very
earnestly
upon
him
;
and
she
who
never
had
lov'd
any
thing
comparably
to
Money
,
immediately
found
her self
susceptible
of
an
inclination
towards
that
young
Man
,
who
seem'd
to
her
as
eloquent
as
she
had
thought
him
handsome
.
Whereupon
she
return'd
him
this
Answer
.
You
have
done
me
but
justice
,
Sir
,
when
you
thought
me
sensible
of
honour
and
compassion
;
persons
of
my
condition
are
never
destitute
thereof
towards
such
as
you
are
.
I
presume
,
by
what
I
see
of
you
,
that
you
are
a
person
of
Quality
;
and
therefore
sympathizing
with
your
affliction
,
I
heartily
proffer
you
my
House
,
to
continue
in
it
as
long
as
you
shall
think
fit
,
to
avoid
the
pursuit
of
those
who
look
after
you
:
for
it
were
not
just
you
should
fall
into
their
hands
,
since
,
by
my
means
you
may
be
secur'd
from
so
great
a
danger
.
Fear
not
any
thing
here
;
for
though
the
Officers
should
come
into
the
House
,
I
shall
put
you
into
so
secret
a
place
,
that
they
shall
never
find
you
.
The
young
Spark
gave
her
a
thousand
thanks
for
so
signal
a
favour
,
which
oblig'd
her
to
make
him
this
further
discourse
.
You
very
well
know
,
Sir
,
by
the
habit
I
am
in
,
with
what
reserv'dness
I
ought
to
live
in
my
House
,
and
yet
I
freely
proffer
you
the
security
you
promise
your self
in
it
,
till
you
have
accommodated
your
affairs
.
But
I
have
a
Father
,
now
from
home
,
who
will
expect
an
accompt
of
my
demeanour
:
and
if
,
at
his
arrival
,
which
it
may
be
will
be
this
day
,
he
will
entertain
you
with
a
Room
in
his
Lodgings
,
as
I
am
confident
he
will
think
it
an
honour
,
I
shall
be
content
.
The
young
Gallant
renew'd
his
thanks
to
her
,
for
that
continuance
of
her
kindnesses
,
and
he
express'd
himself
so
gentilly
,
that
she
was
more
and
more
taken
with
him
.
In
the
mean
time
,
those
who
were
of
the
Plot
,
knock'd
very
confidently
at
the
door
,
calling
upon
them
to
open
to
the
Officers
.
The
family
was
at
first
a
little
startled
;
but
Rufina
,
recovering
her self
out
of
the
little
disorder
which
appear'd
in
her
countenance
,
took
Jaimo
by
the
hand
,
and
led
him
into
an
upper
Room
which
had
a
double
Partition
,
before
which
there
was
a
piece
of
Hangings
,
and
left
him
there
,
with
an
assurance
it
would
be
impossible
to
find
him
out
.
That
done
she
went
to
open
the
door
,
and
Crispin
impudently
comes
in
,
without
the
least
fear
of
being
known
,
being
disguis'd
as
he
was
.
He
was
attended
by
some
Rogues
of
his
Profession
,
who
with
Lanterns
and
Fire-arms
,
personating
the
Officers
of
Justice
,
uncivilly
rush'd
into
the
Room
where
Rufina
was
.
Crispin
gave
her
a
kind
salute
,
and
counterfeiting
his
Voice
suitably
to
his
Person
.
I
know
,
Madam
,
said
he
,
that
it
speaks
a
kind
of
incivility
,
to
come
so
boldly
into
a
VViddow's
House
;
but
my
Charge
obliges
me
thereto
,
and
therefore
you
will
excuse
me
.
The
Lieutenant
Criminal
hath
commanded
me
,
to
search
all
the
Houses
hereabouts
to
see
if
I
can
find
a
Malefactor
we
look
for
.
Our
search
hath
hitherto
been
to
no
purpose
,
and
we
have
but
this
one
House
to
search
;
give
us
therefore
leave
to
look
into
all
the
Rooms
of
it
,
that
we
may
satisfie
our
Superiours
,
and
withall
our
own
Consciences
.
You
may
assure
your selves
,
said
she
to
them
,
upon
my
word
,
that
I
saw
no
Body
come
into
my
House
;
but
,
that
you
may
not
think
amiss
of
me
,
or
conceive
me
a
Woman
to
shelter
Murtherers
,
and
Mischievous
persons
,
search
,
and
see
whether
you
can
find
the
person
you
look
for
.
One
of
the
Maids
took
a
Wax-candle
to
light
them
,
and
they
visited
several
Chambers
,
yet
not
too
exactly
,
that
the
slightness
of
the
search
might
be
thought
a
Courtesie
.
That
done
,
he
civilly
took
leave
,
recommending
the
prosecution
of
the
plot
to
his
Camerade
.
The
counterfeit
Knight
came
out
of
his
hole
,
pretending
an
extraordinary
gladness
,
that
he
had
escap'd
their
hands
,
who
sought
after
him
,
and
in
expressions
full
of
acknowledgment
,
he
highly
celebrated
the
favour
he
had
receiv'd
from
the
fair
widow
.
She
,
who
,
the
more
she
look'd
on
him
,
more
and
more
fancied
him
,
made
him
a
thousand
demonstrations
of
Friendship
,
assur'd
him
he
should
be
waited
on
at
her
house
according
to
his
worth
;
and
if
he
would
have
the
patience
to
stay
till
her
Father
came
in
,
she
was
confident
he
would
not
suffer
him
to
go
out
of
the
house
that
night
.
The
Gallant
,
who
perceiv'd
the
Lady
began
to
grow
warm
,
was
the
more
earnest
to
beg
a
leave
which
he
saw
would
not
be
easily
granted
him
,
told
her
,
it
would
be
his
best
course
to
take
Sanctuary
in
some
Religious
house
,
whence
he
might
send
notice
to
his
people
at
the
Inn
,
where
he
was
;
that
he
was
to
go
the
next
day
for
Sevil
;
and
that
he
thought
it
not
safe
for
him
,
to
go
that
night
to
his
quarters
.
Rufina
,
troubled
to
find
him
so
resolv'd
,
more
earnestly
presses
his
stay
,
represented
to
him
the
great
hazard
he
ran
,
and
desir'd
him
by
all
means
to
stay
two
hours
longer
.
Jaimo
,
who
desir'd
nothing
so
much
,
was
persuaded
to
do
so
.
She
desir'd
his
permission
,
to
go
and
take
order
about
some
things
her
Father
had
left
her
to
do
,
whereof
she
was
to
give
an
account
at
his
return
.
This
was
onely
a
pretence
to
get
out
,
to
confer
with
her
slave
,
in
whom
she
repos'd
great
confidence
,
what
course
she
should
take
.
She
took
her
into
another
room
,
and
freely
acknowledg'd
to
her
the
inclination
she
had
for
that
Knight
;
that
it
troubled
her
to
let
him
go
out
of
the
house
,
lest
he
might
endanger
his
life
,
or
at
least
hazard
his
liberty
:
but
on
the
other
side
,
she
knew
not
,
whether
Garay
would
take
it
well
that
she
detain'd
him
,
and
that
he
should
be
in
the
house
all
night
.
At
last
,
much
troubled
at
these
difficulties
,
she
desir'd
her
to
give
her
the
best
advice
she
could
,
and
what
she
would
resolve
,
were
she
in
her
condition
.
The
Slave
,
who
was
as
subtil
a
baggage
as
her
Mistress
,
and
immediately
apprehended
,
that
the
advice
she
would
best
like
must
be
such
as
promoted
her
passion
;
I
must
acknowledge
,
Madam
,
said
she
to
her
,
that
it
would
argue
an
excessive
easiness
of
nature
in
you
,
considering
the
short
time
you
have
known
this
Cavalier
,
to
unbosom
your self
so
far
,
as
to
give
him
a
passage
into
your
heart
;
and
I
think
you
would
do
imprudently
on
the
other
side
to
persuade
Garay
,
when
he
comes
,
to
suffer
his
abode
this
night
in
the
house
.
My
advice
is
,
since
the
house
is
large
enough
,
and
that
there
are
two
or
three
empty
rooms
,
into
one
whereof
he
may
go
through
your
lodgings
,
that
you
lodge
him
there
,
and
make
not
any
body
acquainted
therewith
.
It
shall
be
my
care
to
bring
him
thither
,
when
I
have
made
his
bed
,
and
supply
him
with
all
things
requisite
,
without
Garay's
knowing
of
it
.
You
know
Garay
is
to
be
gone
within
these
two
days
for
Madrid
,
and
then
you
may
freely
enjoy
your self
with
this
young
Gentleman
,
whom
it
will
be
easie
for
me
to
persuade
,
that
the
search
being
still
about
the
street
,
it
is
absolutely
necessary
that
he
stay
,
if
he
will
not
hazard
his
life
or
liberty
.
The
Slave's
advice
was
extremely
pleasing
to
Rufina
,
who
order'd
her
to
go
immediately
and
lay
clean
sheets
on
the
bed
,
and
to
put
the
Cavalier
in
possession
of
the
room
.
'T
was
presently
put
in
execution
,
and
not
long
after
,
the
amorous
Widow
went
by
a
private
pair
of
stairs
,
to
visit
her
Gallant
.
You
will
haply
wonder
,
Sir
,
said
she
to
him
,
that
without
my
Father's
permission
,
I
have
ventur'd
to
receive
you
into
my
house
,
and
that
in
the
night
:
but
to
secure
a
person
of
worth
,
there
may
be
a
little
breach
made
of
the
rules
of
modesty
.
I
have
thought
it
most
convenient
,
that
,
as
I
have
been
a
means
of
your
avoiding
the
eyes
of
Justice
,
so
you
should
also
keep
out
of
my
Fathers
,
to
the
end
you
may
be
here
in
all
safety
.
Be
pleas'd
to
think
your self
oblig'd
to
me
for
this
little
service
;
but
I
render
it
you
very
heartily
,
nay
I
think
it
necessary
,
in
order
to
your
safety
.
Jaimo
,
who
perceiv'd
this
fish
would
come
into
the
Wee
l
,
multiplies
his
acknowledgments
by
thousands
for
this
new
favour
.
That
begat
abundance
of
pleasant
discourses
between
them
,
whereof
the
issue
was
,
that
he
heightning
his
flattery
by
his
eloquence
,
insinuated
himself
more
and
more
into
her
good
opinion
;
&
celebrating
,
one
after
another
,
all
the
perfections
and
accomplishments
of
Rufina
,
he
got
the
absolute
disposal
of
her
heart
.
Yet
would
she
have
a
little
further
trial
of
his
sincerity
,
to
see
whether
it
were
onely
her
beauty
that
drew
him
in
,
and
whether
it
were
true
that
the
charms
of
it
had
so
suddenly
transform'd
a
person
,
who
fearfully
fled
into
her
house
for
shelter
,
into
a
confident
Lover
.
Upon
this
the
Slave
coming
in
,
and
giving
her
Mistress
an
account
that
she
had
obey'd
her
commands
,
she
took
Jaimo
by
the
hand
,
and
led
him
to
the
room
prepar'd
for
him
.
He
found
it
light
enough
,
as
having
in
the
midst
of
it
a
Branch
,
of
Crystal
,
wherein
were
many
wax-candles
,
and
a
magnificent
Collation
staying
for
him
.
He
was
a
little
surpriz'd
to
see
she
left
him
alone
,
but
her
excuse
satisfi'd
him
,
that
she
would
be
with
him
again
,
as
soon
as
she
had
seen
her
Father
in
bed
.
At
her
departure
out
of
the
room
,
she
beheld
him
with
eyes
so
full
of
love
and
tenderness
,
that
that
new
demonstration
heightned
the
Gallant
into
an
absolute
confidence
of
the
good
success
of
his
enterprise
.
Garay
was
not
so
far
stricken
in
years
,
but
that
he
had
the
courage
left
to
pretend
to
the
possession
of
Rufina
;
he
acted
the
part
of
her
Gallant
,
and
had
he
not
been
already
married
,
he
would
have
treated
of
a
marriage
with
her
.
He
kept
his
wife
at
Madrid
,
who
,
as
many
others
do
that
are
cast
off
,
and
slighted
,
bestow'd
the
time
of
her
Husband's
absence
on
such
as
would
accept
of
her
kindness
.
Some
years
had
past
since
he
had
heard
from
her
,
whereupon
imagining
she
might
be
dead
,
he
had
resolv'd
upon
a
journey
to
Madrid
,
to
make
a
secret
enquiry
after
her
,
that
,
in
case
she
were
remov'd
out
of
the
world
,
he
might
prosecute
his
intentions
to
marry
Rufina
,
who
was
infinitely
oblig'd
to
him
.
Upon
this
account
it
was
that
he
resolv'd
his
departure
within
two
days
.
Leaving
him
in
those
thoughts
,
let
us
return
to
Rufina
,
who
set
him
to
supper
as
soon
as
he
was
come
in
,
and
,
pretending
some
indisposition
,
excus'd
her self
that
she
could
not
bear
him
company
.
It
being
his
custom
to
go
to
bed
as
soon
as
he
had
supp'd
,
Rufina
staid
,
till
word
was
brought
her
,
that
he
was
fast
asleep
,
and
then
went
to
her
Gallant
,
causing
her
own
supper
,
which
was
that
night
somewhat
more
than
ordinary
,
to
be
carried
along
with
her
.
As
soon
as
the
cloth
was
taken
away
,
during
the
interval
which
the
servants
had
to
sup
,
Rufina
,
who
was
more
and
more
in
love
with
her
new
Guest
,
entreated
him
to
give
her
an
account
of
his
life
,
and
sincerely
to
acquaint
her
with
his
name
,
his
country
,
and
the
occasion
of
his
coming
to
Toledo
.
Jaimo
,
whose
design
it
was
onely
to
abuse
her
,
entertain'd
her
with
this
Romance
,
whereto
she
gave
very
earnest
audience
.
My
Country
,
Madam
,
is
Valentia
,
one
of
the
most
eminent
Provinces
of
Spain
;
you
know
it
well
enough
by
name
,
and
haply
are
not
to
learn
,
that
it
hath
a
great
advantage
over
several
others
,
as
well
in
regard
of
Nobility
and
wealth
,
as
the
temperature
of
its
climate
,
and
the
delightful
fertility
of
its
soil
.
I
am
of
the
noble
and
antient
Family
of
Pertusa
,
well
known
all
over
that
Kingdom
.
My
name
is
Don
Jaimo
de
Pertusa
,
and
the
King
,
for
the
many
good
services
done
him
by
my
Ancestors
,
hath
honour'd
me
with
the
Order
of
Knight
of
Montesa
,
and
the
Commanderie
of
Silla
,
which
is
the
best
of
any
belonging
to
that
Order
.
Besides
what
that
brings
me
in
,
I
have
in
other
estate
as
much
as
may
amount
to
three
thousand
Crowns
per
annum
.
I
am
the
onely
Son
of
the
Family
,
and
I
made
my
addresses
to
a
noble
Lady
of
the
City
I
was
born
in
,
named
Donna
Blanca
Ceintillas
,
of
one
of
the
most
illustrious
Families
of
Valentia
,
a
Lady
of
excellent
endowments
.
I
have
serv'd
her
with
all
the
affection
imaginable
,
whereto
she
gave
me
no
return
,
as
being
pre-ingag'd
to
another
Cavalier
,
who
was
also
a
Servant
of
hers
,
named
Don
Vincent
Poiadas
;
whereupon
seeing
my
Rival
preferred
before
me
,
I
was
exasperated
beyond
measure
.
Don
Vincent
was
a
person
of
such
an
humour
,
as
that
nothing
would
satisfie
him
,
less
than
to
rid
out
of
the
way
whatever
might
obstruct
his
amorous
pretensions
.
Accordingly
,
one
night
,
meeting
with
me
in
the
street
where
my
Mistress
liv'd
,
attended
by
three
servants
,
he
set
upon
me
,
though
I
had
but
one
with
me
.
I
defended
my self
as
well
as
I
could
,
but
at
last
came
off
with
such
wound
;
as
it
was
conceiv'd
I
must
have
di'd
of
them
.
There
could
never
be
any
perfect
discovery
made
of
him
who
had
hurt
me
,
though
every
one
suspected
who
it
might
be
:
but
the
common
report
coming
in
to
the
Magistrate
that
Don
Vincent
was
my
Corrival
,
he
was
imprison'd
;
but
,
having
clear'd
himself
either
by
favour
or
mony
,
he
was
set
at
liberty
.
Being
recover'd
of
my
wounds
,
and
reflecting
on
the
advantage
,
wherewith
my
Rival
had
engag'd
me
,
I
thought
it
but
a
just
requital
to
fall
on
him
,
upon
the
same
unequal
terms
.
I
therefore
surpriz'd
him
in
the
same
manner
as
he
had
done
me
,
and
the
result
was
,
that
he
got
off
much
more
wounded
than
I
had
been
.
There
happen'd
to
be
some
in
the
street
,
who
knew
me
,
and
took
their
oaths
against
me
,
a
thing
not
much
practis'd
at
Valentia
,
in
regard
the
truth
is
seldom
discover'd
by
that
means
.
Upon
this
accident
it
is
,
that
I
came
thence
,
for
Don
Vincent
was
so
dangerously
wounded
,
that
the
Chirurgeons
gave
but
little
hopes
of
his
recovery
.
I
saw
his
Friends
were
resolv'd
to
revenge
his
death
,
and
was
afraid
to
fall
into
the
hands
of
Justice
.
This
oblig'd
me
to
leave
Valentia
,
and
to
come
to
this
City
,
where
I
have
now
been
about
a
month
.
I
have
understood
by
a
person
of
this
City
,
who
hath
correspondents
in
several
others
,
that
he
whom
I
had
hurt
is
out
of
all
danger
,
nay
in
perfect
health
,
and
that
the
treaty
of
marriage
between
him
and
Donna
Blanca
is
concluded
,
whereof
I
have
a
greater
resentment
,
then
of
having
this
day
met
with
two
men
,
who
hir'd
by
Don
Vincent
came
hither
purposely
to
murther
me
.
They
set
upon
me
in
this
street
,
one
I
have
mortally
wounded
,
as
I
think
,
and
by
that
means
made
a
shift
to
escape
out
of
their
hands
,
with
the
assistance
of
those
who
came
in
to
part
us
.
I
found
your
house
open
,
and
being
come
into
it
for
refuge
,
I
find
my self
secure
,
and
that
all
I
have
to
fear
now
,
is
,
your
fair
eyes
.
Avoiding
one
prison
,
I
am
fallen
into
another
;
but
I
think
my
imprisonment
so
pleasant
,
that
,
if
you
discharge
me
not
,
I
shall
continue
it
as
long
as
I
live
.
Thus
did
the
counterfeit
Don
Jaimo
conclude
his
relation
,
leaving
Rufina
extremely
satisfi'd
,
to
see
in
that
Cavalier
,
not
onely
those
endowments
which
might
deserve
love
,
but
also
such
initiations
of
affection
,
as
rais'd
in
her
a
certain
hope
she
might
one
day
be
his
wife
:
which
having
discours'd
within
her self
,
she
immediately
made
him
this
Answer
.
Signor
Don
Jaimo
Pertusa
,
I
am
very
much
troubled
,
that
you
should
come
to
the
knowledge
of
me
at
Toledo
,
upon
so
sad
an
occasion
to
your self
;
but
it
abates
much
of
it
,
that
you
intend
not
to
return
so
soon
into
your
Country
,
for
I
could
wish
your
residence
in
this
City
,
and
assure
you
,
for
my
own
particular
,
that
if
I
could
oblige
your
stay
,
I
would
endeavour
it
by
all
means
possible
,
nay
though
it
were
fatal
to
my
liberty
.
The
advantages
you
would
make
of
it
might
not
haply
amount
to
much
,
yet
can
you
no
less
than
think
your
sel●
oblig'd
to
me
,
for
the
good
will
I
bear
you
,
considering
the
little
time
I
have
had
the
honour
to
know
you
.
Such
as
it
is
,
if
it
oblige
you
to
any
reciprocation
,
I
shall
think
my self
but
too
too
happy
,
and
that
I
have
attain'd
the
greatest
of
my
wishes
.
In
order
to
such
a
design
,
Heaven
hath
not
haply
made
me
handsome
enough
;
but
I
dare
stand
on
my
good
nature
,
and
withal
that
I
have
otherwise
wherewith
to
satisfie
a
person
of
your
worth
and
quality
.
Madam
,
replies
Don
Jaimo
,
I
kiss
the
very
dust
you
tread
on
,
though
I
think
not
my self
worthy
enough
it
should
be
touch'd
by
my
mouth
,
when
I
consider
the
favour
I
receive
from
you
.
Yet
can
I
not
but
think
I
have
fully
satisfi'd
whatever
I
ought
you
,
since
I
have
resign'd
up
to
you
my
heart
and
soul
,
and
so
I
fear
not
any
Action
you
may
have
against
me
,
as
to
that
particular
.
As
to
your
forcing
of
my
will
,
you
may
spare
your
further
trouble
,
I
am
already
sensible
,
Madam
,
that
it
is
at
your
devotion
,
and
therefore
you
may
forbear
ineffectual
remedies
,
where
there
needs
onely
that
Sovereign
one
of
your
Beauty
,
which
is
so
full
of
vertue
,
that
it
hath
transported
me
out
of
my self
,
that
I
might
be
absolutely
at
your
disposal
.
'T
was
a
happy
day
to
me
,
that
I
was
set
upon
by
those
Assassins
of
my
Country
,
since
the
mischief
they
intended
me
hath
procur'd
me
the
favours
I
have
receiv'd
from
you
.
Now
I
wish
Heaven
would
prolong
my
Life
;
for
if
you
approve
of
the
affection
I
have
for
you
,
as
you
are
pleas'd
to
assure
me
,
in
spight
of
all
the
storms
of
my
ill
fortune
,
I
shall
get
into
a
haven
where
I
may
defie
all
dangers
,
I
mean
that
of
your
good
inclinations
towards
me
.
The
thought
of
them
gives
me
respit
,
and
fills
me
with
an
absolute
oblivion
of
my
Country
,
since
I
must
look
on
a
place
,
where
such
happiness
is
prepar'd
for
me
,
as
my
Paradice
.
These
discourses
,
and
others
yet
more
amorous
,
pass'd
between
Don
Jaimo
and
Donna
Emerentiana
;
and
the
crafty
Youth
had
the
length
of
her
Foot
so
rightly
,
that
she
was
easily
ensnar'd
in
the
subtle
Webb
of
his
cunning
insinuations
,
and
made
it
her
main
business
to
ingratiate
her self
more
and
more
with
him
.
The
time
insensibly
pass'd
away
in
these
amorous
conferences
,
insomuch
that
it
was
two
in
the
morning
ere
Rufina
retir'd
to
her
own
Chamber
,
yet
troubled
,
that
she
was
forc'd
to
do
it
so
soon
;
and
the
Impostor
Jaimo
presently
went
to
Bed
,
extreamly
pleas'd
,
that
his
Camerade's
plot
had
taken
so
well
.
Crispin
was
extreamly
perplex'd
,
that
all
that
Day
and
the
next
,
he
had
receiv'd
no
news
of
what
pass'd
,
by
reason
of
Garay's
being
in
the
House
:
but
as
soon
as
he
was
gone
,
for
Madrid
,
the
amorous
Rufina
gave
her self
more
liberty
,
being
still
more
and
more
deeply
in
Love
with
her
Guest
.
Jaimo
acquainted
Crispin
,
by
a
Letter
brought
him
by
the
Slave
,
how
he
was
favour'd
by
Rufina
.
Crispin
answer'd
him
by
the
same
hand
,
and
withall
sent
him
a
Purse
with
a
hundred
pieces
,
to
get
her
in
to
Play
,
and
to
make
presents
to
the
Servants
,
that
he
might
be
sure
of
them
when
occasion
serv'd
.
The
day
of
Garay's
departure
for
Madrid
,
Rufina
was
taken
up
with
the
reception
of
two
Gentlewomen
of
her
Neighbour-hood
,
an
employment
she
was
not
at
all
pleas'd
with
,
for
she
wish'd
them
far
enough
,
and
her self
in
her
Gallant
's
company
.
As
soon
as
they
were
gone
,
she
went
to
her
beloved
Jaimo
,
whom
we
shall
Don
—
as
long
as
this
Scene
of
the
imposture
lasts
.
She
found
him
tuning
a
Lute
,
which
her
Slave
had
brought
him
;
for
he
was
an
excellent
Musician
,
and
had
a
smack
of
Poetry
,
an
accomplishment
not
extraordinary
in
the
Natives
of
Valentia
,
where
there
are
also
admirable
Musicians
.
Rufina
,
hearing
him
at
a
distance
,
came
softly
into
his
Chamber
,
charm'd
with
the
sweet
harmony
of
his
Lute
,
which
he
touch'd
with
a
miraculous
dexterity
,
and
being
not
seen
by
the
young
Man
,
she
hearkned
to
him
a
good
while
,
perceiving
he
intended
to
sing
a
Song
,
as
he
afterwards
did
with
an
admirable
grace
,
and
he
had
made
the
Verses
,
which
were
upon
the
occasion
of
his
Love
.
This
added
to
the
flames
of
her
affection
,
which
were
before
grown
too
violent
for
to
keep
within
the
bounds
of
modesty
:
but
what
most
ravish'd
her
,
was
,
that
the
Verses
he
had
Sung
were
made
for
her
,
and
upon
the
accident
which
had
happened
to
him
.
VVhereupon
the
Love-stung
VViddow
coming
up
to
him
,
What
,
said
she
,
Signor
Don
Jaimo
,
you
are
Master
of
those
excellencies
which
I
little
imagin'd
?
I
am
extreamly
glad
of
it
,
yet
wonder
not
much
thereat
,
as
knowing
Valentia
to
be
famous
for
excellent
Voices
.
Mine
is
but
ordinary
,
said
he
,
and
it
is
rather
the
words
,
than
the
goodness
of
the
Voice
that
induc'd
me
to
Sing
.
I
find
,
said
she
,
this
Song
is
very
new
,
and
that
it
was
not
made
two
days
since
.
'T
is
very
true
,
says
Don
Jaimo
,
yet
is
it
not
to
be
much
wondred
at
,
since
the
subject
,
upon
which
it
is
made
,
hath
such
an
influence
over
me
,
as
would
make
me
undertake
things
impossible
,
as
transcending
whatever
yet
I
thought
worth
my
admiration
.
No
flattery
,
I
pray
you
,
said
she
to
him
,
for
though
I
know
that
what
you
say
is
not
true
,
and
that
you
Men
allow
a
distance
between
your
words
and
thoughts
,
and
,
when
you
do
not
love
,
most
pretend
it
,
yet
I
cannot
but
take
all
kindly
from
you
.
You
may
be
deceiv'd
in
both
,
Madam
,
said
he●
,
and
therefore
be
pleas'd
to
believe
me
,
that
I
think
my self
extreamly
happy
in
that
unhappy
adventure
,
which
procur'd
me
the
glory
of
your
acquaintance
.
All
I
have
to
beg
of
you
is
,
that
you
take
a
more
particular
notice
of
my
freedome
,
and
thence
infer
,
that
my
Soul
cannot
be
fuller
of
affection
towards
you
than
it
is
.
In
fine
,
these
and
other
insinuating
discourses
screw'd
up
the
feign'd
Widdow
to
such
a
height
of
kindness
,
that
the
crafty
companion
began
to
desist
from
the
enterprize
which
had
occasion'd
his
coming
to
her
,
and
seriously
dispose
himself
to
assure
her
more
and
more
of
his
love
.
And
thinking
her
fully
satisfy'd
with
the
relation
he
had
made
her
of
himself
,
he
became
so
familiar
,
as
to
desire
her
to
give
him
the
like
accompt
of
her
extraction
▪
She
thought
fit
to
make
her
condition
equal
with
his
,
and
accordingly
,
she
acquainted
him
in
a
short
discourse
,
how
she
was
descended
from
the
illustrious
Counts
of
Menezez
in
Portugal
,
though
she
had
been
born
in
the
City
of
Badajos
.
The
crafty
companion
immediately
apprehended
what
Game
she
would
be
at
,
and
that
her
design
was
to
oblige
him
to
Marry
her
.
This
was
directly
contrary
to
the
sentiments
of
Crispin
,
who
would
not
by
any
means
that
he
should
think
of
any
such
thing
,
but
continually
reflect
on
the
dangers
they
are
apt
to
run
into
,
who
following
the
profession
he
was
engag'd
in
,
are
concern'd
to
be
expeditious
in
the
execution
of
their
enterprises
,
lest
being
,
by
some
unexpected
accident
,
prevented
,
they
come
to
make
their
last
Wills
on
a
Gibbet
,
before
they
are
willing
to
remove
into
the
other
World
.
The
young
Gallant
grew
more
and
more
warm
in
his
love
towards
Rufina
,
particularly
upon
this
accompt
,
that
,
according
to
her
relation
,
she
was
nobly
descended
.
He
thereupon
did
all
lay
in
his
power
to
heighten
her
affection
towards
him
.
She
on
the
other
side
,
had
the
same
thoughts
,
so
that
concurring
in
the
same
desires
,
as
Lovers
mutually
passionate
,
Rufina
behav'd
her self
so
freely
and
familiarly
towards
him
,
that
he
might
easily
perceive
she
had
discarded
all
modesty
:
insomuch
that
,
upon
little
intreaty
,
she
permitted
him
to
invert
the
order
of
the
Alphabet
,
and
to
put
Q.
before
P.
But
in
the
midst
of
her
enjoyments
,
she
remembred
her
old
Acquaintance
Garay
;
she
reflected
on
the
familiarites
had
pass'd
between
them
;
she
consider'd
how
much
she
was
oblig'd
to
him
;
and
that
he
was
look'd
on
all
over
the
City
as
her
Father
.
She
imagin'd
to
her self
the
resentment
he
must
needs
have
at
his
arrival
,
when
he
found
that
she
had
basely
forsaken
him
.
She
bethought
her self
to
give
him
a
sum
of
Money
privately
,
and
to
dismiss
him
:
but
thinking
more
seriously
of
it
,
she
thought
it
a
better
course
to
leave
Toledo
before
his
return
,
and
to
persuade
Don
Jaimo
to
carry
her
into
his
Country
,
Valentia
.
She
resolv'd
within
two
or
three
days
to
declare
her
mind
to
him
,
for
Garay
was
not
expected
home
till
fifteen
days
after
.
In
the
mean
time
Rufina
and
her
Gallant
pass'd
away
the
time
very
jocundly
,
and
he
,
being
very
heartily
in
love
with
her
,
was
fully
resolv'd
to
give
Crispin
the
bag
,
and
not
to
proceed
any
further
in
his
first
design
.
'T
was
in
the
Winter-time
,
when
the
Nights
are
longest
,
that
these
Lovers
deceiv'd
the
slow-pac'd
Season
with
an
intermixture
of
Caresses
,
Songs
,
and
amorous
Discourses
,
nay
many
times
,
they
sung
together
,
their
several
parts
,
to
a
Musical
Instrument
,
which
he
play'd
on
.
One
night
,
after
they
had
Sung
and
Talk'd
of
several
things
,
Rufina
entreated
her
Gallant
to
entertain
her
and
her
Maids
with
some
pleasant
Story
,
or
Novel
,
if
he
knew
any
.
The
young
Man
,
who
was
Vers'd
in
all
things
,
and
of
an
excellent
Wit
,
was
content
to
answer
the
desires
of
his
Mistress
,
to
give
her
a
new
demonstration
of
his
further
perfections
,
and
said
to
her
▪
Though
to
such
a
Person
as
you
are
,
divine
Emerentiana
▪
and
my
dearest
Mistress
,
my
discourse
will
seem
very
ordinary
,
yet
so
punctually
would
I
obey
your
Commands
,
as
if
I
knew
what
you
impos'd
on
me
were
onely
for
a
trial
of
my
compliance
:
And
in
regard
I
do
it
,
in
this
,
so
much
of
a
sudden
,
I
hope
to
find
you
the
more
ready
to
excuse
my
failings
.
The
Novel
I
intend
to
tell
you
,
I
heard
from
an
accomplish'd
Cavalier
of
Valentia
;
I
thought
it
not
unpleasant
,
and
shall
endeavour
to
present
it
to
you
as
well
dress'd
as
I
receiv'd
it
.
Whereupon
having
recollected
himself
a
little
,
he
began
his
discourse
thus
.
THE
THIRD
NOVEL
.
The
Trapanner
Trapann'd
.
IN
the
great
and
famous
City
of
Sevil
,
the
Metropolis
of
Andalusia
,
Mother
of
so
many
noble
Families
,
and
excellent
Wits
,
the
Treasury
of
all
the
Wealth
,
which
flows
into
Spain
from
the
West-Indies
,
was
born
Don
Pedro
de
Ribera
,
a
very
accomplish'd
Cavalier
,
of
the
illustrious
Family
of
the
Dukes
of
Alcala
,
so
highly
esteem'd
all
over
the
Kingdome
.
By
their
death
,
from
whom
he
deriv'd
his
being
in
this
world
,
there
fell
to
him
an
estate
of
four
thousand
Crowns
annual
rent
,
upon
which
he
liv'd
very
nobly
at
Sevil
,
being
the
most
remarkable
Person
at
all
publick
actions
done
about
the
City
.
He
had
at
Madrid
a
Cousin-german
,
who
follow'd
the
Spanish
Court
,
and
was
gone
thither
about
some
affairs
of
great
importance
,
which
he
had
brought
to
a
happy
issue
.
Having
liv'd
there
a
while
,
he
lik'd
it
,
and
the
conversation
of
the
Cavaliers
inhabiting
it
,
so
well
,
that
he
exchang'd
the
place
of
his
birth
for
that
illustrious
City
.
He
there
became
intimately
acquainted
with
an
old
Cavalier
,
whose
name
was
Don
Juan
de
la
Cerda
,
a
person
who
had
rais'd
himself
into
a
general
esteem
,
by
the
excellent
endowments
he
had
.
Besides
which
he
was
honour'd
with
the
illustrious
Order
of
the
Patron
of
Spain
,
with
a
Commandery
of
two
thousand
Ducats
of
annual
rent
.
This
old
Gentleman
was
a
Widdower
,
having
but
one
onely
Daughter
,
to
whom
all
his
vast
Estate
was
to
fall
at
his
Death
.
Nature
it
seems
had
made
it
her
particular
business
to
enrich
this
young
Lady
,
with
all
the
graces
and
perfections
to
be
wish'd
in
one
of
her
Sex
.
Which
occasion'd
the
envy
of
all
the
Ladies
about
the
Court
towards
her
,
since
she
had
,
in
point
of
Beauty
,
the
same
advantages
over
them
,
as
the
Sun
hath
over
all
the
rest
of
the
Planets
.
Her
Father
,
Don
Juan
,
wish'd
her
married
with
a
person
to
his
mind
,
that
is
,
one
equal
to
her
,
in
estate
and
extraction
.
Don
Rodrigo
de
Ribera
(
so
was
called
Don
Pedro's
Cousin
whom
I
spoke
of
first
)
might
have
aspir'd
to
the
honour
of
making
his
Addresses
to
her
,
as
well
upon
accompt
of
the
House
,
from
which
he
was
descended
,
as
the
familiar
acquaintance
there
was
between
him
and
her
Father
,
Don
Juan
.
But
being
a
younger
Brother
,
he
thought
himself
too
low
,
in
point
of
estate
,
to
pretend
to
so
advantageous
a
match
.
However
he
thought
fit
to
make
some
proposal
to
the
old
Gentleman
,
on
the
behalf
of
his
Cousin
Don
Pedro
,
who
liv'd
at
Sevil
,
whom
he
highly
recommended
to
him
for
his
excellent
Qualities
,
and
the
greatness
of
his
Estate
;
for
he
was
the
onely
Son
of
a
Noble
house
.
Don
Juan
took
it
very
kindly
from
him
,
but
thought
it
withall
prudence
,
to
make
further
enquiry
into
the
business
,
knowing
that
persons
speaking
for
their
own
Relations
are
commonly
very
partial
,
and
think
it
no
mortal
sin
to
exceed
the
truth
.
So
that
Don
Juan
,
immediately
writ
to
a
particular
friend
at
Sevil
,
earnestly
desiring
him
to
give
him
an
account
of
the
Person
and
Estate
of
Don
Pedro
de
Ribera
,
inasmuch
as
it
highly
concern'd
the
honour
of
his
House
,
to
meet
with
a
Cavalier
worthy
his
alliance
,
to
be
Husband
to
his
onely
Daughter
Donna
Brianda
.
'T
was
not
long
ere
he
receiv'd
an
Answer
,
wherein
his
friend
confirm'd
all
that
Don
Rodrigo
had
said
of
his
Kinsman
,
with
somewhat
more
,
protesting
in
the
conclusion
,
that
he
was
so
far
from
being
partial
or
insincere
,
in
the
accompt
he
had
sent
him
,
that
he
rather
told
less
than
truth
.
He
thereupon
went
to
Don
Rodrigo
,
and
told
him
,
that
he
might
write
to
his
Cousin
,
and
assure
him
he
should
be
very
welcome
,
if
he
had
any
inclinations
for
his
Daughter
.
He
made
him
Answer
,
that
he
would
,
and
Don
Juan
,
as
a
further
obligation
,
would
have
his
Daughter's
Picture
sent
him
,
that
he
might
therein
find
some
of
the
rare
qualities
that
were
in
her
,
permitting
his
Cousin
to
be
present
at
the
taking
of
it
,
that
he
might
assure
Don
Pedro
,
the
Painter
had
not
flatter'd
her
,
and
that
the
Copy
was
below
the
Original
.
Don
Rodrigo
fail'd
not
to
write
to
his
Cousin
,
to
whom
he
also
sent
the
Picture
,
celebrating
the
vertues
of
that
amiable
person
,
which
the
Painter
could
not
represent
,
as
he
had
done
the
lineaments
of
her
beautiful
countenance
.
His
Cousin
Don
Pedro
was
extremely
satisfi'd
therewith
,
and
referr'd
it
to
him
to
make
some
overtures
in
the
treaty
of
Marriage
,
till
he
came
thither
himself
,
for
the
further
prosecution
whereof
,
he
sent
him
a
full
procuration
.
In
the
mean
time
Don
Pedro
was
preparing
for
his
journey
to
Madrid
,
to
wait
on
his
Mistress
,
who
,
having
receiv'd
his
Picture
,
was
as
much
taken
with
it
,
as
he
had
been
with
hers
.
Leaving
his
retinue
at
Sevil
,
till
a
rich
Livery
,
then
making
,
were
finish'd
,
he
began
his
journey
,
having
onely
one
person
to
wait
on
him
,
and
a
Groom
to
look
to
their
Mules
,
who
follow'd
them
at
a
little
distance
.
Don
Pedro
carri'd
always
about
him
his
Mistress's
picture
inclos'd
in
the
same
Letter
,
wherein
his
Cousin
had
sent
it
him
.
Being
come
within
half
a
days
journey
of
Toledo
,
he
sent
away
the
Groom
,
to
provide
Lodgings
for
them
in
the
City
.
He
had
entertain'd
at
dinner
some
of
the
Inhabitants
of
Orgaz
,
which
was
the
place
where
they
had
baited
.
The
cloth
being
taken
away
,
they
fell
to
Cards
;
he
lost
his
mony
,
and
was
vex'd
,
which
occasion'd
their
playing
on
till
he
had
recover'd
his
losses
,
and
by
that
time
it
was
grown
later
than
he
could
have
wish'd
.
Being
hors'd
,
he
and
his
man
put
forward
,
but
ere
they
had
rode
a
League
,
night
surpriz'd
them
,
so
that
they
made
a
shift
to
lose
their
way
,
and
got
in
among
certain
Olive-trees
,
about
half
a
League
short
of
Toledo
.
Not
knowing
where
they
were
,
and
fearing
to
go
too
far
out
of
their
way
,
they
thought
it
their
best
course
to
alight
,
and
rest
themselves
under
one
of
the
Olive-trees
,
till
it
were
day
.
They
accommodated
themselves
the
best
they
could
,
and
weariness
soon
laid
them
asleep
,
yet
little
dream'd
of
the
misfortune
which
was
to
happen
to
them
.
Being
in
their
first
sleep
,
which
is
commonly
the
soundest
,
four
men
came
to
the
place
,
very
softly
,
for
the
noise
of
their
Mules
brought
them
thither
;
and
these
were
of
a
profession
,
which
for
the
most
part
finds
those
that
are
of
it
more
work
by
night
than
by
day
.
They
had
then
been
upon
a
design
which
had
not
taken
,
and
so
they
were
returning
somewhat
disconsolately
with
empty
pockets
to
Toledo
.
Coming
up
to
them
,
and
finding
them
both
asleep
,
they
ty'd
their
hands
behind
them
,
and
took
away
all
they
had
,
but
their
Doublets
and
Drawers
,
and
,
to
get
off
with
more
speed
and
safety
,
they
made
use
of
their
Mules
.
Don
Pedro
,
being
thus
basely
surpriz'd
,
was
exasperated
at
the
misfortune
,
but
his
Man
told
him
that
it
had
happened
to
them
through
his
fault
,
because
he
had
not
given
over
playing
sooner
.
They
discours'd
of
it
,
till
the
Birds
gave
them
notice
of
the
approach
of
Aurora
.
Soon
after
,
hearing
the
noise
of
some
cattle
not
far
from
them
,
they
call'd
to
him
that
look'd
after
them
,
who
came
up
to
them
,
and
unbound
them
,
very
much
bemoaning
the
condition
they
were
in
.
They
ask'd
him
,
how
far
it
was
to
Toledo
,
and
he
told
them
it
was
not
quite
half
a
league
,
but
if
they
would
go
along
with
him
to
a
Country
House
hard
by
,
he
would
gladly
shew
the●
the
way
,
and
that
he
doubted
not
the
Lady
,
w●●
liv'd
in
it
,
would
relieve
them
in
that
extremity
.
They
took
his
advice
,
and
he
brought
them
to
a
very
fai●
house
.
Having
knock'd
at
the
Gate
,
it
was
immediately
open'd
by
an
old
man
,
who
was
Steward
to
the
Lady
,
and
had
the
oversight
of
the
Shepherds
and
the
profits
arising
from
the
Sheep
.
The
Shepherd
who
brought
them
thither
went
in
to
the
Lady
,
and
in
few
words
gave
her
an
account
of
the
misfortune
had
hapned
to
those
Strangers
,
and
the
condition
he
had
found
them
in
,
whereupon
she
order'd
them
to
be
brought
up
to
her
chamber
.
Don
Pedro
presented
himself
to
her
,
very
much
abash'd
to
see
himself
almost
naked
,
as
having
about
him
onely
an
old
Coat
,
which
the
Shepherd
had
lent
him
.
He
told
her
that
his
journey
was
for
Madrid
,
about
a
Law-suit
of
great
importance
,
not
discovering
who
he
was
,
but
onely
that
he
was
a
Gentleman
of
Sevil
,
named
,
Don
Ferdinand
Sanchez
de
Trivegno
.
The
Lady
,
whose
name
was
Donna
Victoria
,
was
much
troubled
to
see
him
in
that
deplorable
condition
.
There
were
in
the
house
two
chests
full
of
cloaths
,
which
had
been
a
Brother's
of
hers
,
who
died
not
long
before
.
She
order'd
two
sutes
to
be
brought
out
,
which
they
put
on
,
that
which
Don
Pedro
had
proving
so
fit
,
that
the
Lady
was
much
taken
with
his
person
,
and
had
her
eyes
always
fastned
on
him
.
She
invited
Don
Pedro
to
dine
with
her
,
which
he
did
,
taking
occasion
ever
and
anon
,
to
make
extraordinary
acknowledgments
of
the
favours
he
receiv'd
from
her
.
They
continu'd
two
days
in
that
Country
house
,
ere
the
Lady
made
any
discovery
of
the
affection
she
had
for
Don
Pedro
,
save
onely
what
she
did
with
her
eyes
,
which
were
the
silent
interpreters
of
the
trouble
she
was
in
.
Don
Pedro
was
not
insensible
of
it
,
and
had
some
discourse
concerning
it
with
his
Man
;
yet
had
he
not
the
confidence
to
tell
him
what
he
really
thought
of
it
,
being
(
as
he
was
)
upon
the
point
of
disposing
himself
otherwise
.
The
Servant
advis'd
him
not
to
let
slip
so
fair
an
opportunity
,
and
told
him
he
should
not
be
so
hard-hearted
,
towards
a
Lady
of
so
great
worth
,
and
one
that
had
so
highly
oblig'd
them
.
The
solitude
of
the
place
,
the
beauty
of
the
Lady
,
and
the
silent
discoveries
she
made
him
by
her
gestures
,
oblig'd
Don
Pedro
to
answer
her
affection
.
He
entred
into
some
Love-discourses
with
her
;
but
though
she
were
really
in
love
with
him
,
yet
would
she
not
grant
him
any
particular
favour
,
unless
he
first
assur'd
her
she
should
be
his
wife
,
and
that
she
had
a
promise
of
it
under
his
hand
.
Don
Pedro
,
on
the
other
side
,
had
so
great
a
kindness
for
her
,
that
he
had
in
a
manner
forgot
the
Mistress
,
whose
Picture
he
carri'd
about
him
,
and
advising
with
his
Servant
,
(
who
was
a
dangerous
Confident
,
and
a
subtil
fellow
)
what
he
should
do
,
he
told
him
very
roundly
,
that
he
ought
not
to
let
slip
so
sweet
and
favourable
an
opportunity
;
that
he
might
easily
have
the
enjoyment
of
her
,
and
withal
give
her
the
promise
of
marriage
she
desired
,
provided
he
put
not
into
it
his
own
name
,
but
fill'd
it
with
the
supposititious
name
he
had
assum'd
,
since
she
knew
neither
his
Country
nor
extraction
.
Don
Pedro
follow'd
his
advice
,
and
thereupon
had
his
desires
of
Donna
Victoria
,
who
having
made
the
blot
,
could
do
no
les●
than
give
him
leave
to
enter
.
He
continu'd
there
four
days
,
at
the
end
whereof
,
acquainting
the
Lady
that
his
business
at
Madrid
was
of
such
importance
as
requir'd
his
personal
attendance
there
,
she
consented
to
his
departure
,
on
condition
he
would
return
again
as
soon
as
he
could
;
which
he
,
with
oaths
,
promis'd
to
do
.
The
next
morning
betimes
,
he
departed
,
leaving
the
Lady
o're-flown
with
tears
;
he
was
somewhat
troubled
,
or
at
least
pretended
it
.
The
Lady
having
furnish'd
him
with
all
things
necessary
,
he
put
forward
;
but
ere
he
had
gone
far
,
he
receiv'd
some
part
of
the
chastisement
which
he
deserv'd
for
his
perfidiousness
,
for
the
Mule
he
was
mounted
on
being
apt
to
start
gave
him
a
fall
,
whereby
he
so
sprain'd
one
foot
,
that
he
was
forc'd
to
make
some
stay
at
Illescas
,
a
place
half
way
between
Toledo
and
Madrid
,
and
to
send
for
Chirurgeons
to
set
all
things
right
again
.
Leaving
him
there
confin'd
to
his
chamber
for
some
days
,
let
us
return
to
Donna
Victoria
,
who
very
much
bewail'd
the
absence
of
her
Gallant
,
the
very
thought
of
whom
caus'd
her
no
small
affliction
.
A
Servant
of
hers
who
had
made
the
bed
where
he
lay
,
sound
,
under
the
bolster
,
a
Picture
of
the
Lady
whom
Don
Pedro
was
to
be
married
to
,
folded
up
in
a
Letter
which
his
Cousin
had
writ
to
him
from
Madrid
,
which
she
deliver'd
to
her
Mistress
,
who
opening
the
Paper
,
saw
the
Picture
,
whereat
she
was
much
disquieted
;
but
she
was
much
more
astonish'd
,
when
she
cast
her
eye
on
the
ensuing
LETTER
.
Dearest
Cousin
,
YOu
will
receive
herein
inclosed
the
Picture
of
the
Lady
Donna
Brianda
de
la
Cerda
,
which
is
very
exactly
taken
from
the
Original
;
I
doubt
not
but
the
charms
of
her
Beauty
will
oblige
you
to
hasten
your
departure
.
Her
Father
,
Don
Juan
de
la
Cerda
,
expects
you
with
great
impatience
.
In
the
mean
time
the
Contract
of
Marriage
is
a
drawing
up
,
and
will
be
ready
,
before
you
be
here
to
sign
it
.
Assure
your self
you
will
be
extremely
satisfi'd
,
that
you
have
found
so
excellent
a
wife
.
I
am
Your
affectionate
Cousin
,
Don
Rodrigo
de
Ribera
.
Donna
Victoria
had
scarcely
come
to
the
period
of
this
Letter
,
but
,
through
the
trouble
she
receiv'd
at
the
reading
of
it
,
she
fell
into
a
swound
,
and
continu'd
therein
above
half
an
hour
,
in
the
arms
of
her
Maid
.
At
last
she
came
to
her self
,
bursting
into
sighs
and
tears
;
she
rail'd
at
the
Sevillian
Impostor
,
but
much
more
at
her
own
simplicity
,
that
she
had
so
lightly
prostituted
her
honour
to
an
unknown
person
,
whom
so
strange
an
adventure
had
brought
to
her
house
.
She
spent
that
whole
day
in
weeping
and
bemoaning
her
misfortune
:
but
considering
withal
,
what
hazard
her
reputation
was
in
,
she
resolv'd
it
should
not
be
said
of
her
,
that
she
had
been
so
basely
affronted
by
any
man
.
Whereupon
with
the
light
she
receiv'd
from
the
Letter
,
of
the
occasion
of
his
journey
,
and
the
person
to
whom
he
was
to
be
married
,
she
put
things
in
order
to
her
removal
to
Madrid
;
which
she
might
better
do
than
any
other
,
in
regard
she
had
not
any
Kinsman
near
enough
to
whom
she
might
communicate
her
intention
.
She
communicated
her
design
to
Albert
,
an
old
Servant
of
hers
,
who
had
brought
her
up
from
the
cradle
,
and
was
very
glad
to
wait
on
her
.
Upon
this
resolution
,
she
caus'd
two
Wagons
to
be
loaden
with
all
things
necessary
to
furnish
a
house
fit
to
receive
a
person
of
Quality
,
and
took
her
way
towards
Madrid
.
Being
come
thither
,
she
commanded
her
Servant
Albert
,
to
enquire
whereabouts
lived
Don
Juan
de
la
Cerda
,
and
whether
the
young
Cavalier
,
whom
he
intended
to
make
his
Son-in-law
,
were
come
from
Sevil.
She
understood
by
him
,
that
he
was
not
yet
come
,
but
that
they
expected
him
,
which
much
troubled
the
Lady
,
who
knew
nothing
of
the
accident
had
happen'd
to
him
near
Illescas
.
The
first
thing
this
affronted
Lady
did
,
was
to
take
a
house
for
her self
,
near
that
of
Don
Juan
de
la
Cerda
,
and
order'd
Albert
to
live
in
it
as
Master
thereof
.
That
done
,
she
sent
him
to
Don
Juan's
,
to
enquire
whether
she
wanted
a
waiting-Gentlewoman
,
for
she
would
disguise
her self
,
that
she
might
not
be
known
by
Don
Pedro.
The
business
had
the
effect
she
desired
,
for
Donna
Brianda
was
then
enquiring
for
a
widow
to
wait
on
her
,
a
custom
much
practis'd
in
Spain
,
where
Ladies
of
quality
have
several
of
them
,
whom
,
being
Widows
,
they
call
Duennas
.
When
this
was
proposed
by
Albert
,
who
went
under
the
name
of
Father
to
his
Mistress
,
Donna
Brianda
not
onely
receiv'd
her
into
her
service
,
but
her
Father
,
Albert
,
was
also
entertain'd
into
Don
Juan's
.
Albert
gave
his
Mistress
an
account
of
his
Negotiation
,
whereat
she
was
extremely
satisfi'd
:
so
that
having
put
her self
into
the
habit
of
a
Duenna
,
she
went
the
next
day
to
present
her self
to
Donna
Brianda
,
conducted
by
her
pretended
Father
,
Albert.
They
were
both
very
kindly
entertained
by
Don
Juan
de
la
Cerda
and
his
Daughter
.
Donna
Victoria
wish'd
she
had
not
been
so
handsom
,
that
the
Sutor
she
expected
might
be
the
less
taken
with
her
;
however
,
she
couragiously
resolv'd
to
prosecute
the
imposture
she
was
ingag'd
in
.
Donna
Brianda
ask'd
Albert
,
what
Country-man
he
was
.
He
told
her
that
he
was
born
at
a
place
called
Utrera
,
near
Sevil
;
that
his
name
was
Stephen
de
Santillana
(
by
which
we
shall
henceforth
call
him
)
that
his
Daughter
had
been
married
to
a
Merchant
of
that
City
,
who
di'd
as
he
was
going
for
the
West-Indies
,
leaving
so
great
Debts
behind
him
,
that
all
his
Estate
went
to
satisfie
his
Creditors
.
Don
Juan
hearing
that
Santillana
was
of
Andalusia
,
ask'd
him
,
whether
he
had
liv'd
any
time
at
Sevil.
He
told
him
,
that
he
had
often
been
in
that
City
,
but
that
his
Daughter
had
liv'd
there
.
Don
Juan
would
not
at
that
time
enquire
any
farther
,
nor
enter
into
any
discourse
with
him
concerning
Don
Pedro
de
Ribera
.
Donna
Victoria
was
entertain'd
as
Duenna
to
Donna
Brianda
,
who
took
such
an
affection
to
her
,
that
she
trusted
her
with
all
her
Keys
,
to
the
great
discontent
of
her
other
Servants
,
who
had
liv'd
with
her
many
years
.
Santillana
told
them
that
he
had
a
House
of
his
own
,
not
far
from
Don
Juan's
,
and
a
Wife
(
for
Marcella
an
ancient
Maid
of
Donna
Victoria's
was
to
act
that
part
)
whereupon
he
had
no
Lodgings
assign'd
him
in
Don
Juan's
.
It
is
now
time
we
return
to
Don
Pedro
de
Ribera
,
who
being
recover'd
of
his
fall
,
came
to
Madrid
,
and
lighted
at
the
House
of
his
Cousin
Don
Rodrigo
,
who
was
much
troubled
that
he
had
not
been
there
sooner
.
He
told
him
the
cause
of
it
,
and
gave
him
a
particular
account
of
all
had
pass'd
in
Donna
Victoria's
Country-house
,
even
to
the
promise
he
had
made
her
,
under
a
feign'd
name
.
Don
Rodrigo
ask'd
him
,
what
quality
the
Lady
was
of
,
whereto
be
answer'd
,
that
her
name
was
Donna
Victoria
de
Sylva
,
and
that
she
was
of
one
of
the
most
noble
Families
of
Toledo
.
Don
Rodrigo
was
very
much
dissatisfy'd
with
his
procedure
,
reproaching
him
with
the
unworthy
action
he
had
done
,
in
abusing
and
dishonouring
that
Lady
,
and
that
it
was
to
be
fear'd
,
she
might
hear
of
his
coming
to
Madrid
in
order
to
a
Marriage
with
another
,
and
find
means
to
be
reveng'd
for
that
affront
.
They
afterwards
fell
into
discourse
concerning
Donna
Brianda
,
and
Don
Pedro
told
him
,
he
extreamly
fancied
the
Picture
he
had
seen
of
her
,
but
that
,
with
the
other
things
he
had
been
robb'd
of
,
he
had
lost
it
:
though
he
knew
well
enough
,
he
had
left
it
under
the
beds
head
at
Donna
Victoria's
,
which
troubled
him
not
a
little
,
however
he
dissembled
it
.
Don
Rodrigo
told
Don
Pedro
,
that
it
were
fit
he
put
himself
into
other
Cloaths
,
before
he
waited
on
his
Mistress
,
and
that
he
must
keep
within
doors
till
they
were
ready
.
Within
two
days
a
very
fair
riding
Suit
was
brought
him
,
wherein
pretending
he
was
but
newly
come
to
Town
,
he
goes
to
the
House
of
Don
Juan
de
la
Cerda
,
by
whom
he
was
receiv'd
with
great
demonstrations
of
kindness
.
Notice
was
immediately
carry'd
up
to
Donna
Brianda
,
that
the
person
design'd
to
be
her
Husband
was
coming
up
to
her
Chamber
,
where
she
was
with
her
Maids
about
her
,
who
had
just
made
an
end
of
Dressing
her
.
Don
Pedro
coming
in
,
conducted
by
Don
Juan
and
Don
Rodrigo
,
was
infinitely
satisfy'd
at
the
sight
of
his
Mistress
,
whom
he
very
civilly
and
discreetly
saluted
,
for
he
was
a
person
of
an
excellent
wit
and
a
confident
carriage
and
demeanour
.
He
found
by
the
original
of
Donna
Brianda
,
that
the
Painter
had
done
his
work
very
faithfully
,
a
virtue
not
much
practis'd
by
Painters
,
especially
upon
such
occasions
as
that
was
.
He
was
ravish'd
,
to
see
so
great
a
Beauty
,
and
she
on
the
other
side
was
well
satisfy'd
with
the
handsome
personage
of
Don
Pedro.
There
were
yet
some
things
to
be
done
in
order
to
the
absolute
conclusion
of
the
Marriage
,
at
which
there
was
a
necessity
of
Don
Pedro's
presence
;
whereupon
he
,
Don
Juan
,
and
Don
Rodrigo
withdrew
into
another
room
,
where
they
lock'd
themselves
in
with
a
Notary
,
and
some
Friends
,
who
were
to
be
witnesses
at
the
Articles
of
the
agreement
.
Donna
Brianda
continu'd
all
that
time
in
her
Chamber
,
with
her
Servants
,
talking
of
Don
Pedro
,
her
Husband-to-be
,
every
one
congratulating
her
good
fortune
,
save
onely
Donna
Victoria
,
who
saying
nothing
at
all
,
her
Mistress
observ'd
it
,
and
being
all
alone
with
her
,
Donna
Theodorn
,
said
she
to
her
,
(
that
was
the
name
she
had
assum'd
)
whence
comes
it
,
that
,
while
all
the
rest
celebrate
the
happiness
of
my
choice
,
you
onely
are
silent
?
Me-thinks
you
might
have
contributed
somewhat
to
the
publick
congratulation
,
though
you
had
done
it
onely
out
of
complaisance
.
I
pray
give
me
some
reason
for
it
.
Donna
Victoria
had
done
it
purposely
,
in
prosecution
of
her
design
,
and
this
question
came
as
seasonably
as
she
could
have
wish'd
it
,
so
that
she
made
her
this
Answer
.
As
to
the
person
of
Don
Pedro
,
Madam
,
there
is
not
any
thing
to
be
said
against
it
,
nay
he
is
so
accomplish'd
,
that
there
is
not
any
thing
to
be
wish'd
in
him
which
he
hath
not
already
.
My
silence
proceeds
hence
,
that
I
had
a
particular
knowledge
of
him
at
Sevil
,
for
I
liv'd
in
a
Quarter
of
the
City
,
which
he
much
frequented
.
I
neither
will
,
nor
ought
to
conceal
from
you
the
occasion
of
his
so
often
coming
thither
,
for
it
is
my
duty
to
be
faithful
to
you
,
as
having
no
other
design
than
to
serve
you
,
and
endeavour
your
quiet
,
so
as
that
you
may
not
live
in
a
perpetual
dis-enjoyment
of
your self
all
the
rest
of
your
days
.
Know
then
,
Madam
,
that
if
you
match
your self
with
Don
Pedro
,
you
will
be
brought
to
a
kind
of
civil
death
,
instead
of
receiving
the
satisfactions
of
wedlock
.
Donna
Brianda
was
much
astonish'd
at
this
discourse
,
and
press'd
her
Duenna
,
to
discover
to
her
more
clearly
,
what
she
had
but
too
great
a
desire
to
tell
her
.
Whereupon
entreating
her
to
retire
into
a
more
secret
place
,
where
they
might
not
be
observ'd
by
her
other
Women
,
Donna
Victoria
gave
her
this
malicious
account
of
the
perfidious
Don
Pedro.
I
should
not
live
with
the
respect
and
duty
I
owe
you
as
my
Mistress
,
nor
according
to
the
affection
I
bear
you
,
if
I
express'd
not
my self
clearly
to
you
,
in
a
business
wherein
you
are
so
highly
concern'd
,
and
on
which
depends
your
greatest
felicity
in
this
world
.
Know
then
,
Madam
,
that
Don
Pedro
fell
in
love
with
a
Lady
at
Sevil
,
one
very
handsome
and
well
descended
,
in
a
word
wanting
nothing
but
a
fortune
suitable
to
her
quality
.
He
courted
her
so
earnestly
,
that
she
,
finding
her self
oblig'd
by
so
great
demonstrations
of
Affection
,
Letters
,
and
continual
Embassies
,
attended
with
presents
,
from
Don
Pedro
,
satisfy'd
his
desires
,
upon
a
promise
that
he
would
make
her
his
Wife
,
whereof
there
are
many
witnesses
.
But
the
business
was
to
be
kept
secret
for
a
time
;
for
Don
Pedro's
Father
was
then
alive
,
who
,
having
receiv'd
some
intelligence
of
that
Love
,
endeavour'd
all
he
could
to
prevent
Don
Pedro's
marriage
with
Donna
Elvira
de
Monsalvo
;
so
was
the
Lady
called
.
The
continuance
of
his
visits
to
her
produc'd
living
proofs
,
which
were
two
Sons
and
a
Daughter
,
who
are
at
this
time
with
the
Mother
.
When
Don
Pedro's
Father
was
remov'd
out
of
the
way
,
(
which
happen'd
not
long
after
)
Donna
Elvira
expected
he
should
make
good
his
promise
,
and
marry
her
,
but
he
,
for
some
time
,
came
not
so
much
as
to
see
her
.
What
inconveniences
she
was
put
to
from
the
time
of
their
acquaintance
she
knows
to
her
sorrow
,
and
I
am
not
ignorant
thereof
,
for
I
Liv'd
near
her
,
and
went
often
to
her
House
.
Being
now
convinc'd
that
he
intended
to
leave
her
in
the
Lerch
,
she
discover'd
the
business
to
two
Cousin-Germans
of
hers
,
who
were
so
enrag'd
thereat
,
that
they
immediately
resolv'd
to
oblige
Don
Pedro
,
by
force
,
to
perform
the
promise
he
had
made
to
their
Kinswoman
.
Don
Pedro
went
to
a
certain
Farm
he
had
,
not
far
from
Sevil
,
to
avoid
his
Adversaries
,
who
,
knowing
he
went
out
of
the
way
purposely
because
he
would
not
satisfie
their
Cousin
,
resolv'd
to
be
the
death
of
him
.
Things
were
in
this
posture
when
my
Father
brought
me
to
Madrid
,
where
I
have
been
about
these
six
weeks
.
This
is
the
accompt
I
can
give
you
of
Don
Pedro
,
who
must
not
think
himself
secure
in
this
Court
,
for
the
Lady's
Kinsmen
,
whom
I
know
to
be
gallant
and
stout
Persons
,
as
soon
as
they
hear
of
his
being
here
,
will
be
sure
to
attend
his
motion
,
and
revenge
the
affront
done
to
their
Cousin
;
nay
it
will
be
easier
for
them
to
do
it
here
than
at
Sevil.
Donna
Brianda
heard
very
attentively
the
story
told
her
by
the
Duenna
,
and
was
extreamly
troubled
,
to
find
Don
Pedro
so
far
engag'd
with
another
.
She
ask'd
her
a
thousand
questions
,
among
others
,
whether
he
was
much
in
love
with
that
Mistress
,
whether
that
Donna
Elvira
was
very
handsome
,
&c.
whereto
she
made
such
Answers
as
were
suitable
to
her
design
,
which
was
to
put
Don
Pedro
clearly
out
of
her
favour
.
Donna
Brianda
resolv'd
to
give
her
Father
an
account
of
all
,
and
leave
it
to
him
to
inform
himself
more
fully
of
the
business
.
She
immediately
went
to
the
Room
where
he
was
to
speak
to
him
,
for
all
things
were
concluded
as
to
the
Marriage
.
In
the
mean
time
,
Donna
Victoria
was
left
in
the
outer-room
,
where
the
Women
and
Duennas
are
wont
to
wait
.
There
came
in
to
them
a
Servant
of
Don
Pedro's
whom
he
had
sent
to
the
Post
for
Letters
from
Sevil.
Enquiring
for
his
Master
,
to
give
him
the
pacquet
,
Donna
Victoria
told
him
,
that
he
was
within
,
but
that
as
soon
as
he
came
out
she
would
deliver
it
to
him
.
Having
opened
the
pacquet
,
she
put
into
it
a
Letter
she
immediately
writ
,
and
,
sealing
it
up
again
,
came
where
her
Mistress
was
.
She
ask'd
her
whither
she
was
going
with
those
Letters
?
The
other
answered
without
the
least
discovery
of
any
malice
,
that
they
were
directed
to
Signor
Don
Pedro
,
and
had
been
brought
thither
a
little
before
by
one
of
his
Servants
from
the
Sevil-Post
.
Curiosity
was
an
ingredient
of
the
first
Woman
,
and
it
is
very
fruitfully
spread
through
the
whole
Sex
.
Donna
Brianda
shew'd
her self
nor
free
from
it
on
this
occasion
,
and
she
was
the
more
excusable
considering
the
story
had
been
told
her
by
the
subtle
Duenna
.
She
was
tempted
to
open
the
pacquet
,
wherein
finding
one
Letter
written
with
a
Woman's
hand
(
which
was
that
written
by
Donna
Victoria
)
she
could
do
no
less
than
open
it
,
and
directing
her
Eye
down
to
the
bottom
of
it
,
found
it
subscribed
by
one
Donna
Elvira
de
Monsalvo
.
She
read
it
,
and
was
confirm'd
in
what
before
she
not
fully
credited
.
THE
LETTER
.
My
dearest
,
YOur
absence
and
my
indisposition
have
reduc'd
me
to
such
extremity
,
that
I
cannot
imagine
I
have
any
long
time
to
live
,
it
being
impossible
I
should
hold
out
,
after
the
news
I
have
heard
of
your
resolution
to
be
married
at
Madrid
,
which
cannot
easily
be
done
,
without
a
transcendent
baseness
,
by
a
person
so
nearly
engag'd
to
me
as
you
are
.
You
know
that
you
cannot
bestow
on
another
what
is
so
lawfully
due
to
me
,
especially
if
you
make
the
least
reflection
on
the
precious
pledges
there
are
between
us
thereof
.
I
have
no
other
advice
to
give
you
,
as
things
now
stand
,
but
that
,
if
you
are
at
such
a
loss
of
all
shame
and
conscience
,
there
is
a
God
in
Heaven
,
who
sees
our
most
secret
thoughts
,
and
passes
a
just
judgement
on
them
;
and
that
I
have
many
noble
friends
,
who
measuring
the
small
account
you
make
of
them
by
your
slighting
of
me
,
will
not
fail
to
revenge
the
affront
done
to
us
all
.
I
hope
we
shall
not
be
forc'd
to
those
extremities
,
considering
how
highly
you
are
oblig'd
to
do
things
suitably
to
the
nobleness
of
your
Birth
,
and
to
acknowledge
,
as
you
ought
,
her
,
whom
,
while
we
both
Live
,
you
must
look
on
,
as
Your
lawful
Wife
Donna
Elvira
de
Monsalvo
.
This
Letter
fully
satisfy'd
Donna
Brianda
that
all
she
had
heard
from
the
malicious
Duenna
was
true
.
Her
Father
coming
into
the
room
as
she
had
done
reading
it
,
she
acquainted
him
with
all
that
concern'd
Don
Pedro
,
shewing
him
the
Letter
from
Donna
Elvira
.
He
was
extreamly
astonish'd
,
to
find
that
a
Cavalier
of
so
noble
a
Family
,
had
abus'd
a
Lady
of
such
quality
,
and
that
,
having
Children
by
her
,
he
should
be
so
impudent
as
to
make
his
addresses
to
his
Daughter
.
He
forbore
reproaching
him
therewith
,
till
he
had
better
inform'd
himself
from
a
Friend
of
his
of
Sevil
,
then
at
Madrid
,
whom
he
immediately
went
to
look
for
.
Don
Juan
was
but
hardly
got
out
of
doors
,
but
Don
Pedro
and
his
Man
came
in
,
for
his
man
having
told
him
that
he
had
deliver'd
the
pacquet
to
one
of
Donna
Brianda's
Women
,
he
was
come
to
receive
it
from
her
,
since
it
was
not
brought
to
his
Cousin's
,
whither
all
his
Letters
were
directed
.
It
was
his
fortune
to
meet
with
Donna
Brianda
in
the
outer-room
,
where
her
Father
had
left
her
.
I
should
not
have
return'd
so
soon
,
my
dearest
Lady
,
said
he
to
her
,
had
not
somewhat
extraordinary
oblig'd
me
thereto
;
it
is
to
receive
some
Letters
,
which
my
Man
tells
me
he
delivered
to
one
of
your
Women
.
She
thought
,
says
Donna
Brianda
,
that
you
had
been
still
with
my
Father
.
I
casually
meeting
her
as
she
was
coming
into
the
room
,
ask'd
her
what
she
came
for
.
She
answering
,
it
was
to
deliver
you
the
pacquet
,
I
took
it
from
her
,
and
(
presuming
that
a
Cavalier
of
your
age
and
complexion
could
not
have
lived
to
this
time
in
Sevil
,
and
not
have
an
inclination
for
some
Lady
)
a
certain
conjunction
of
curiosity
and
jealousie
persuaded
me
to
open
it
.
That
curiosity
hath
done
me
a
courtesie
,
and
hath
satisfy'd
me
in
some
things
,
which
before
I
onely
suspected
:
and
therefore
I
forbear
desiring
your
excuse
,
since
I
have
receiv'd
so
good
an
information
,
before
I
was
any
further
engag'd
with
you
;
for
had
it
come
too
late
,
I
had
been
ruin'd
.
Here
's
a
Letter
from
a
person
you
should
be
well
acquainted
with
;
this
would
have
been
enough
to
undeceive
me
,
but
it
onely
confirms
a
relation
I
had
receiv'd
before
,
upon
which
I
was
almost
resolv'd
to
put
such
a
check
to
your
pretensions
to
me
,
as
that
you
should
have
but
little
encouragement
to
continue
them
.
Farewell
,
my
presence
will
but
trouble
you
,
this
Letter
will
acquaint
you
with
what
you
are
not
ignorant
of
.
Don
Pedro
receiving
the
Letter
out
of
her
hand
was
not
a
little
surpris'd
,
not
imagining
what
might
have
happen'd
to
him
.
He
read
it
,
and
presently
inferr'd
,
that
it
was
a
trick
put
upon
him
by
some
envious
person
,
who
was
desirous
to
obstruct
his
happiness
.
Meeting
with
Donna
Victoria
(
whom
,
as
we
said
before
,
he
knew
not
in
her
Widdow's
habit
)
Ah
Madam
,
said
he
to
her
,
what
forgeries
are
these
?
I
a
Mistress
at
Sevil
,
and
of
this
name
?
I
children
by
her
,
and
that
upon
a
promise
of
marriage
?
If
it
be
not
the
greatest
lye
that
ever
humane
malice
invented
,
let
me
never
look
Man
in
the
face
again
.
For
my
part
,
replies
the
subtle
Duenna
,
I
find
my self
inclin'd
to
believe
,
that
what
you
say
may
be
true
;
but
your
main
concernment
is
to
bring
my
Lady
to
that
persuasion
.
I
know
her
to
be
of
such
an
humour
as
not
easily
to
quit
a
resentment
,
which
she
entertains
upon
just
grounds
,
and
I
much
question
whether
she
will
admit
your
addresses
any
further
,
for
I
know
she
hath
acquainted
her
Father
withall
,
and
he
is
gone
to
a
Gentleman
of
Sevil
,
an
intimate
friend
of
his
,
who
is
now
in
this
City
.
I
am
very
glad
of
it
,
says
Don
Pedro
,
for
he
will
find
it
to
be
an
absolute
imposture
,
and
that
there
is
not
any
Lady
in
Sevil
that
goes
under
the
name
of
Donna
Elvira
de
Monsalvo
.
But
I
beseech
you
tell
me
,
Madam
,
whether
your
intimacy
be
very
great
with
the
Lady
Donna
Brianda
.
So
great
repli'd
she
,
that
I
am
the
onely
person
in
her
favour
,
and
to
whom
she
is
pleas'd
to
communicate
her
thoughts
.
If
it
be
so
,
says
Don
Pedro
,
it
's
possible
you
may
procure
me
the
favour
from
her
,
that
I
may
vindicate
my self
.
I
much
question
whether
she
will
ever
speak
to
you
again
,
said
she
,
for
she
is
extreamly
incens'd
against
you
,
and
when
once
angry
,
if
justly
,
she
is
the
hardest
to
be
appeas'd
that
ever
I
knew
.
But
,
said
he
,
if
you
are
so
much
in
her
favour
,
you
may
prevail
somewhat
with
her
,
by
representing
to
her
the
extraordinary
affection
I
bear
her
.
It
is
in
my
power
,
said
she
,
to
do
with
her
what
you
desire
;
but
what
will
you
give
me
if
I
can
procure
you
a
favourable
audience
from
her
?
Any
thing
you
can
desire
,
said
he
to
her
,
if
you
mind
onely
matter
of
advantage
.
You
see
I
am
very
young
,
says
she
,
and
consequently
may
hope
to
be
married
again
,
mony
is
the
onely
thing
I
want
;
if
I
do
what
you
wish
,
may
I
rely
on
your
liberality
for
my
reward
.
That
you
may
know
how
earnestly
I
desire
it
,
says
he
,
do
what
I
desire
,
and
I
will
make
your
fortune
he●vier
by
five
hundred
Crowns
than
it
is
.
I
most
humbly
thank
you
,
replies
she
,
but
I
must
tell
you
,
Sir
,
that
I
have
been
so
deluded
by
the
verbal
promises
sometimes
made
me
by
a
person
of
your
quality
,
that
I
have
reason
to
mistrust
what-ever
is
promis'd
,
if
I
have
it
not
in
writing
.
You
will
be
pleas'd
to
excuse
me
,
Sir
,
if
my
fear
to
be
deceiv'd
as
I
have
been
force
me
to
these
precautions
,
and
to
assure
your self
,
that
those
satisfi'd
,
I
will
endeavour
to
serve
you
to
the
utmost
of
my
power
.
To
give
you
absolute
satisfaction
,
as
to
that
point
,
Madam
,
said
he
,
help
me
with
pen
,
ink
and
paper
,
and
you
shall
have
the
security
you
desire
your self
.
Donna
Victoria
would
see
the
issue
of
it
,
and
so
brought
him
what
he
desired
.
Don
Pedro
kept
his
word
with
her
;
nay
either
out
of
ignorance
of
the
form
of
such
obligations
,
or
to
make
a
greater
expression
of
his
earnestness
that
she
should
assist
him
,
he
prov'd
so
liberal
,
as
to
give
her
a
Blank
sign'd
and
seal'd
,
not
mentioning
the
summe
whereto
he
oblig'd
himself
,
telling
her
he
had
not
specifi'd
it
,
out
of
a
design
to
requite
her
beyond
his
promises
,
proportionably
to
the
service
she
should
do
him
,
in
the
recovery
of
his
Mistress's
favour
.
She
saw
this
happen'd
according
to
her
wishes
,
so
that
acknowledging
the
favour
Don
Pedro
had
done
her
,
she
promis'd
him
her
utmost
endeavours
to
deserve
it
,
by
recovering
him
into
the
favour
of
his
Mistress
.
The
amorous
Cavalier
believ'd
her
,
and
took
his
leave
.
Albert
coming
in
soon
after
,
Victoria
gave
him
an
account
of
what
progress
she
had
made
,
and
putting
into
his
hands
the
Blank
sign'd
by
Don
Pedro
,
bid
him
write
above
his
name
a
formal
promise
of
marriage
,
dating
it
about
the
time
of
his
being
at
her
Country
house
near
Toledo
,
with
two
witnesses
:
which
Albert
did
,
imitating
as
near
as
he
could
Don
Pedro's
hand
.
That
day
,
Don
Juan
fail'd
to
meet
the
Gentleman
of
Sevil
,
and
put
off
the
visit
he
intended
him
till
the
next
.
In
the
mean
time
,
Donna
Victoria
understood
from
Donna
Brianda
,
that
she
was
resolv'd
to
lead
Apes
in
hell
,
rather
than
have
Don
Pedro
to
her
husband
.
Having
already
trusted
her
Duenna
with
some
of
her
secrets
,
she
thought
she
might
make
an
absolute
discovery
of
her self
to
her
,
and
thereupon
told
her
,
how
that
before
her
Father
had
treated
of
a
marriage
between
her
and
Don
Pedro
,
she
had
been
courted
by
a
person
of
Honour
,
named
Don
Sancho
de
Leyba
;
that
she
had
some
inclination
towards
him
;
and
that
the
persuasions
of
her
Father
had
prevail'd
with
her
to
entertain
the
applications
of
Don
Pedro
;
but
having
discover'd
his
unworthiness
,
she
was
resolv'd
to
re-address
her
affection
to
Don
Sancho
.
Donna
Victoria
was
almost
out
of
her self
for
joy
to
hear
that
news
,
for
it
put
her
into
a
confidence
that
her
design
would
take
:
and
the
more
to
promote
it
,
she
dispos'd
Donna
Brianda
as
much
as
lay
in
her
power
to
favour
Don
Sancho
.
He
must
needs
be
displeas'd
with
me
,
says
she
to
her
,
yet
I
doubt
not
but
a
Letter
from
me
will
re-engage
him
my
humble
Servant
.
The
crafty
Duenna
proffer'd
to
be
the
bearer
of
it
,
on
condition
she
might
do
it
by
Coach
.
Donna
Brianda
was
very
glad
to
find
her
Woman
so
ready
to
serve
her
,
especially
in
a
business
which
she
was
so
much
pleas'd
with
;
and
so
she
commanded
a
Coach
to
be
made
ready
,
and
that
she
should
go
immediately
to
see
Don
Sancho
,
to
whom
she
writ
a
Letter
.
Donna
Victoria
took
Coach
,
pretending
to
go
to
Don
Sancho's
house
,
but
she
went
to
her
own
,
and
bid
the
Coach-man
return
to
Donna
Brianda
,
and
tell
her
,
that
for
fear
notice
might
be
taken
of
the
Coach
,
she
would
go
afoot
to
the
place
where
she
had
sent
her
,
conducted
by
Santillana
her
pretended
Father
.
From
that
house
,
she
writ
two
Letters
,
one
,
to
Don
Juan
,
desiring
him
to
come
to
her
;
the
other
to
Don
Sancho
,
to
the
same
effect
,
with
directions
to
find
the
house
.
While
the
Letters
were
carried
abroad
,
she
put
off
her
Widows
habit
,
and
put
on
that
of
a
person
of
the
highest
quality
,
expecting
these
two
visits
with
the
accustomed
ceremonies
of
Spain
.
Don
Sancho
de
Leyba
was
not
long
a
coming
,
though
he
knew
nothing
of
the
person
who
had
written
to
him
.
There
had
not
past
many
complements
between
him
and
Donna
Victoria
,
but
word
was
brought
her
,
that
Don
Juan
de
la
Cerda
was
alighted
out
of
his
Coach
,
and
was
coming
into
the
house
.
Sir
,
said
she
to
Don
Sancho
,
I
am
oblig'd
to
speak
with
the
person
who
is
coming
up
all
alone
.
Not
but
that
you
may
hear
the
discourse
we
shall
have
together
;
and
therefore
let
me
intreat
you
to
stand
behind
this
Curtain
,
whence
you
will
hear
all
we
say
,
for
it
concerns
you
more
than
you
imagine
,
and
will
prove
to
your
advantage
.
Don
Sancho
compli'd
,
not
knowing
what
might
be
the
issue
of
this
precaution
.
Don
Juan
came
in
,
and
having
taken
a
seat
,
Donna
Victoria
(
whom
he
knew
not
as
she
was
then
dress'd
)
address'd
her self
to
him
with
this
discourse
.
I
doubt
not
,
Sir
,
but
you
somewhat
wonder
,
you
should
be
intreated
hither
by
a
Letter
,
and
that
from
a
person
not
known
to
you
.
To
recover
you
from
that
confusion
,
I
will
give
you
an
account
of
my self
.
I
was
born
in
the
Imperial
City
of
Toledo
,
the
onely
Daughter
of
the
House
from
which
I
am
descended
,
and
Heir
thereof
.
I
am
of
the
Family
of
Sylva
,
so
well
known
all
over
Spain
,
that
I
need
say
nothing
of
it
.
As
to
my
quality
,
I
am
to
tell
you
farther
,
that
my
Father
was
,
in
his
time
,
honour'd
with
the
Order
of
St.
James
,
and
my
Brother
,
of
that
of
Alcantara
,
with
the
command
of
a
Troop
of
Horse
under
his
Majesty
in
Flanders
.
Upon
his
death
,
I
retir'd
to
a
Country-house
I
have
near
Toledo
,
where
I
liv'd
privately
,
contenting
my self
with
the
innocent
enjoyments
of
a
Country
life
,
without
the
least
acquaintance
of
any
thing
of
Love
,
till
that
,
one
morning
a
Shepherd
of
mine
brought
to
my
house
,
two
men
,
who
had
been
robb'd
and
stripp'd
the
night
before
by
certain
High-way-men
.
I
took
compassion
on
them
,
especially
him
,
who
by
his
demeanor
seem'd
to
be
the
Master
,
and
out
of
two
chests
of
cloaths
my
Brother
had
left
,
I
furnish'd
them
with
two
sutes
,
wherewith
they
cover'd
their
nakedness
.
They
seem'd
to
be
very
thankful
for
so
seasonable
a
favour
;
but
the
more
considerable
of
the
two
hath
treated
me
very
ungratefully
,
which
is
the
ordinary
style
of
Courtiers
,
and
hath
required
my
charitable
offices
onely
with
flatteries
and
deceit
.
I
was
so
simple
as
to
be
cajoll'd
,
by
the
caresses
he
made
me
,
during
four
days
that
I
kept
him
at
my
house
,
and
he
prevail'd
so
far
with
me
,
that
I
was
no
longer
at
my
own
disposal
.
The
reiterated
oaths
and
protestations
of
a
person
of
that
worth
,
rais'd
me
into
a
persuasion
that
he
really
lov'd
me
,
and
that
induc'd
me
to
love
him
again
;
to
be
short
,
upon
a
promise
he
made
me
of
marriage
,
he
got
me
in
an
humour
to
grant
him
the
greatest
of
favours
.
He
made
me
believe
that
his
going
to
Court
was
for
the
prosecution
of
some
Law-business
that
concern'd
him
very
highly
.
He
desir'd
my
leave
to
go
to
Madrid
,
promising
to
return
again
in
a
short
time
,
but
with
such
demonstrations
of
love
as
might
easily
have
prevail'd
with
one
who
had
not
fanci'd
him
so
affectionately
as
I
had
done
.
I
suppli'd
him
with
all
things
necessary
,
and
he
left
me
extremely
troubled
at
his
departure
.
Now
,
by
a
Picture
and
Letter
he
left
behind
him
under
the
bolster
,
I
found
that
the
occasion
of
his
coming
to
this
Court
was
in
order
to
a
marriage
between
him
,
and
that
miracle
of
Beauty
,
Donna
Brianda
,
your
Daughter
.
Now
our
Honour
being
the
most
considerable
thing
we
ought
to
be
tender
of
,
I
could
do
no
less
,
upon
this
procedure
of
Don
Pedro
,
than
resolve
to
come
to
this
Court
,
and
to
apply
my self
to
my
friends
,
that
,
by
their
favour
,
I
might
cross
the
marriage
he
is
about
,
and
you
will
find
,
that
I
may
easily
do
it
,
if
you
but
see
what
Cards
I
have
to
play
.
I
conceiv'd
my
first
overture
should
be
to
acquaint
you
with
my
disgrace
,
the
dishonour
I
have
run
into
by
the
acquaintance
of
Don
Pedro
,
and
his
treachery
towards
me
,
that
receiving
it
from
my
own
mouth
,
you
may
not
bee
too
forward
to
conclude
what
is
already
resolv'd
between
you
,
as
I
have
understood
.
With
the
Paper
I
have
here
in
my
hand
,
I
will
prosecute
him
to
the
utmost
;
it
is
under
his
own
hand
and
seal
,
and
witnesses
to
it
:
be
pleas'd
,
Sir
,
to
peruse
it
,
and
see
whether
I
have
not
reason
to
prosecute
this
ungrateful
and
perjur'd
man
,
and
to
force
him
to
a
performance
of
the
promise
he
hath
made
me
.
Don
Juan
was
astonish'd
at
this
relation
of
Donna
Victoria's
,
and
,
by
what
was
put
into
his
hands
,
found
out
the
disposition
of
Don
Pedro
,
and
concluded
him
a
fickle
imprudent
person
,
who
pursu'd
his
enjoyments
,
without
any
thought
of
the
consequences
thereof
,
and
thereupon
he
resolv'd
there
should
be
no
further
talk
of
any
marriage
between
him
and
his
Daughter
.
Opening
the
Paper
which
Donna
Victoria
had
given
him
,
he
found
in
it
these
words
.
THis
present
writing
,
written
with
my
own
hand
,
and
sealed
with
my
Seal
,
witnesseth
,
that
I
,
Don
Pedro
de
Ribera
,
an
Inhabitant
of
Sevil
,
acknowledge
my self
to
be
the
lawful
husband
of
Donna
Victoria
de
Sylva
,
an
Inhabitant
of
Toledo
,
and
that
I
will
perform
the
present
promise
I
make
her
of
marriage
whensoever
I
shall
be
,
by
her
,
thereto
requir'd
.
Signed
and
Sealed
in
the
presence
of
Albert
and
Marcella
,
Servants
to
the
said
Donna
Victoria
.
Don
Pedro
de
Ribera
.
Having
read
this
promise
,
and
knowing
the
h●nd
and
seal
of
Don
Pedro
,
Don
Juan
said
to
her
,
Madam
,
I
am
very
much
troubled
,
that
Don
Pedro
(
a
person
so
well
descended
as
he
is
)
should
be
guilty
of
so
unworthy
an
action
,
and
a
demeanour
so
full
of
treachery
;
for
at
the
time
when
he
gave
you
this
writing
,
he
was
coming
hither
purposely
to
be
married
to
my
Daughter
.
But
the
account
you
have
given
me
of
him
is
such
,
that
I
assure
you
,
I
wil●
have
no
more
to
do
with
him
,
since
you
have
so
much
reason
to
oppose
it
.
Prosecute
your
own
right
,
and
leave
him
not
till
you
have
obtain'd
your
desires
,
and
be
assar'd
,
I
shall
assist
you
to
the
utmost
of
my
power
,
since
I
find
your
honour
so
highly
concern'd
in
it
▪
I
have
some
friends
here
,
and
those
powerful
,
I
will
engage
them
all
to
serve
you
,
that
you
may
find
I
am
a
person
,
who
prefers
a
just
cause
before
all
self-interest
.
Donna
Victoria
gave
him
very
humble
thanks
for
so
great
a
favour
,
and
the
tears
that
fell
from
her
at
the
close
of
her
discourse
,
heightned
his
zeal
and
tenderness
towards
her
.
Don
Juan
took
along
with
him
the
writing
which
Donna
Victoria
had
shewn
him
,
that
he
might
thereby
induce
Don
Pedro
to
an
acknowledgment
of
his
fault
.
With
those
protestations
he
took
leave
of
Donna
Victoria
,
promising
to
see
her
again
within
a
short
time
,
and
to
return
the
promise
of
marriage
,
reiterating
the
desires
he
had
to
serve
her
.
He
thereupon
left
her
,
giving
Don
Sancho
the
liberty
to
come
upon
the
stage
.
As
soon
as
he
had
taken
a
seat
,
You
have
understood
,
says
Donna
Victoria
to
him
,
if
so
be
you
have
heard
the
discourse
between
Don
Juan
and
my self
,
what
hath
pass'd
between
me
and
Don
Pedro.
Upon
which
account
(
as
you
have
heard
from
her
Father
)
you
find
he
is
never
like
to
be
husband
to
the
fair
Donna
Brianda
.
She
sent
me
hither
to
acquaint
you
,
that
what
hath
been
done
on
her
part
in
order
to
the
marriage
between
her
and
Don
Pedro
was
purely
out
of
compliance
with
the
commands
of
her
Father
,
and
that
she
is
glad
of
the
occasion
she
now
hath
to
quit
him
,
and
re-assume
that
kindness
and
affection
she
ever
had
for
you
.
What
I
say
,
you
will
find
in
writing
under
her
hand
,
when
you
have
perus'd
this
Letter
.
Don
Sancho
,
having
read
it
,
was
the
most
satisfi'd
man
in
the
world
,
to
find
his
blasted
hopes
now
beginning
to
spring
again
.
Donna
Victoria
perceiving
it
,
to
confirm
his
satisfaction
,
continu'd
her
discourse
to
him
thus
.
I
know
,
Seignor
Don
Sancho
,
you
will
be
astonish'd
in
your self
,
how
this
Letter
should
fall
into
my
hands
.
It
is
my self
onely
can
unriddle
it
.
Being
in
love
,
as
you
are
,
you
know
that
that
little
Divinity
is
the
Author
of
many
disguises
and
transformations
,
as
you
are
taught
by
Ovid
in
his
Metamorphosis
,
and
consequently
you
doubt
not
,
but
that
I
,
loving
an
unconstant
person
,
who
had
had
such
precious
pledges
of
my
affection
,
should
leave
nothing
unattempted
to
recover
my
honour
,
and
oblige
him
to
the
satisfaction
of
what
he
owes
me
.
I
am
come
to
this
Court
,
with
a
design
,
being
what
I
am
,
to
get
into
the
service
of
Donna
Brianda
,
and
have
effected
it
.
For
though
you
see
me
in
this
house
,
(
which
was
taken
upon
my
account
)
I
live
in
hers
,
waiting
on
her
in
the
quality
of
a
Duenna
,
a
part
I
have
assum'd
,
the
better
to
elude
Don
Pedro
,
and
to
do
all
say
in
my
power
to
put
him
out
of
my
Mistress's
favour
:
and
I
have
also
brought
that
so
far
about
,
that
I
am
confident
there
will
never
be
any
marriage
between
them
,
and
she
is
wholly
inclin'd
to
favour
you
.
Now
consider
with
your self
what
you
would
have
me
to
say
to
your
Mistress
,
for
I
am
just
going
to
put
on
my
Widows
habit
,
and
I
must
return
presently
,
and
am
afraid
she
will
think
I
have
staid
too
long
.
If
you
will
return
her
an
Answer
,
you
have
here
all
things
requisite
to
do
it
.
I
think
it
were
fit
you
should
,
that
Donna
Brianda
may
see
,
I
have
punctually
obey'd
her
commands
.
As
to
the
secret
of
my
disguise
,
I
pray
keep
it
such
,
for
it
concerns
me
,
that
it
should
not
be
discover'd
a
while
.
I
rely
on
your
discretion
,
and
,
knowing
you
to
be
a
person
of
Honour
and
worth
,
I
presume
you
will
not
discover
it
.
This
discourse
very
much
surpriz'd
Don
Sancho
,
who
took
occasion
to
commend
her
courage
and
generosity
,
and
return'd
her
his
most
humble
thanks
,
for
the
favour
she
had
done
him
,
in
entrusting
him
with
the
secret
of
her
Love
,
and
prayed
Heaven
to
give
him
life
to
acknowledge
and
require
so
great
an
obligation
.
He
promis'd
her
not
to
discover
any
thing
till
she
commanded
him
to
do
it
;
and
thereupon
,
seeing
her
in
haste
to
be
gone
,
he
writ
a
Letter
in
Answer
to
what
he
had
receiv'd
from
his
Mistress
,
full
of
amorous
complements
,
and
pro●estations
of
fidelity
to
the
last
gasp
.
While
he
was
writing
,
Donna
Victoria
but
on
her
Widow's
habit
,
and
made
all
the
haste
she
could
to
Don
Juan's
.
In
the
mean
time
Don
Pedro
,
extremely
resenting
the
imposture
put
upon
him
,
acquainted
his
Cousin
Don
Rodrigo
with
it
,
whereupon
they
went
both
together
to
Don
Juan's
.
He
not
being
within
,
they
ask'd
for
Donna
Brianda
,
who
came
out
without
any
ceremony
to
receive
their
visit
,
that
it
might
be
the
shorter
;
for
she
had
no
great
mind
to
see
Don
Pedro.
The
poor
Gentleman
endeavour'd
to
vindicate
himself
,
swearing
a
thousand
oaths
,
that
he
never
heard
of
any
Lady
in
Sevil
,
of
the
name
mentioned
in
the
Letter
,
and
that
no
doubt
some
envious
person
had
put
this
trick
upon
him
:
and
that
if
Don
Juan
should
upon
enquiry
find
it
to
be
true
,
he
would
be
content
to
lose
his
honour
and
life
,
nay
more
,
the
hopes
of
ever
enjoying
her
.
The
earnestness
of
his
discourse
put
Donna
Brianda
into
some
doubt
,
that
what
she
had
heard
was
some
imposture
advanc'd
purposely
to
obstruct
his
pretensions
,
and
referr'd
it
to
her
Father
to
make
a
full
discovery
thereof
.
Her
Answer
to
them
was
,
that
she
was
not
at
her
own
disposal
,
that
it
was
her
duty
,
to
comply
with
that
of
her
Father
,
and
consequently
,
she
could
not
quit
the
ill-impression
she
had
receiv'd
of
Don
Pedro
,
till
she
were
better
inform'd
of
the
Truth
:
that
her
Father
would
come
in
ere
long
,
and
that
she
could
take
no
resolution
without
his
orders
,
in
a
business
of
so
great
importance
.
While
they
were
engag'd
in
this
discourse
,
Don
Juan
comes
in
from
the
visit
▪
he
had
made
to
Donna
Victoria
.
Don
Rodrigo
made
him
a
short
relation
of
what
had
happen'd
,
and
renew'd
to
him
the
just
complaint
which
his
Cousin
had
reason
to
make
of
the
crime
laid
to
his
charge
.
Whereupon
both
desiring
him
to
hold
his
hand
,
at
least
till
there
were
an
exact
enquiry
made
into
the
business
,
he
desir'd
them
to
sit
down
,
and
gave
them
this
Answer
.
Gentlemen
,
I
went
out
in
hopes
to
be
inform'd
by
some
friends
of
Sevil
,
now
here
,
whether
that
which
is
imputed
to
Don
Pedro
were
true
,
and
I
could
not
meet
with
them
:
but
if
I
had
found
them
,
it
's
possible
they
might
know
nothing
of
the
business
,
for
Sevil
is
a
great
City
,
and
some
parts
of
it
lye
at
such
a
distance
from
others
,
that
they
may
well
be
accounted
different
places
.
What
I
found
most
certain
is
,
that
Don
Pedro
hath
made
a
promise
of
Marriage
to
a
Lady
of
Toledo
,
who
entertain'd
him
at
a
Country-house
of
hers
,
after
he
had
been
robb'd
by
certain
Thieves
;
and
what
is
yet
more
to
be
consider'd
,
she
thought
it
not
much
to
secure
his
affection
by
the
forfeiture
of
her
Honour
.
I
have
it
from
the
Lady
her self
,
who
sent
for
me
,
and
shew'd
me
the
promise
under
his
hand
,
which
since
we
all
know
,
there
can
be
no
evasion
.
He
thereupon
shew'd
it
to
both
the
Cousins
,
who
were
both
at
such
a
loss
that
they
knew
not
what
to
say
,
especially
Don
Pedro
,
who
sufficiently
betray'd
his
guilt
by
his
astonishment
,
but
swore
withall
that
he
had
not
made
that
promise
under
his
own
name
,
but
under
a
feigned
.
But
Don
Rodrigo
knowing
all
the
circumstances
of
the
business
,
was
most
liberal
of
his
reproaches
to
his
Cousin
,
which
raising
a
certain
compassion
in
Don
Juan
,
forc'd
this
discourse
from
him
.
Signor
Don
Pedro
,
We
find
by
many
experiences
,
that
a
young
Man
,
once
fallen
in
Love
,
will
do
any
thing
to
obtain
his
desires
.
That
Love
should
overcome
you
,
I
wonder
not
at
all
;
but
what
occasions
my
astonishment
,
is
,
that
you
should
have
the
confidence
to
address
your self
to
a
person
of
the
quality
this
Lady
is
of
,
and
dishonour
her
,
without
ever
considering
,
that
,
in
time
,
she
might
acquaint
her
friends
therewith
,
who
would
be
sure
to
revenge
the
affront
.
And
what
adds
to
this
astonishment
,
is
,
that
you
durst
do
such
an
action
when
you
were
coming
hither
purposely
in
order
to
your
matching
with
my
Daughter
,
for
whom
,
if
any
credit
may
be
given
your
Letters
,
you
pretended
to
have
a
passionate
affection
.
I
see
not
how
your
heart
could
be
capable
of
such
a
competition
of
passions
,
that
you
should
pretend
the
greatest
inclinations
imaginable
for
one
,
and
treat
of
a
marriage
with
another
.
Being
a
person
of
Honour
,
I
doubt
not
but
you
will
make
it
appear
in
your
actions
,
and
that
is
,
that
you
stand
to
the
promise
you
made
to
the
Lady
Victoria
,
though
it
were
onely
out
of
this
consideration
,
that
it
argues
a
more
generous
nature
to
do
that
willingly
,
which
must
otherwise
unwillingly
be
done
.
The
Lady
is
not
so
destitute
of
Friends
as
you
haply
imagine
;
she
is
now
at
Madrid
,
come
expresly
to
recover
her
debt
,
which
no
doubt
she
will
;
and
her
cause
being
so
just
,
't
is
not
likely
she
will
want
assistance
.
My
advice
is
,
that
you
endeavour
to
prevent
the
ill
reports
which
the
business
must
raise
of
you
;
perform
what
you
have
promis'd
,
and
let
not
your
Love
to
my
Daughter
blind
you
any
further
,
for
I
am
resolv'd
to
shut
her
up
in
a
Cloister
,
for
the
remainder
of
her
Life
,
rather
than
she
shall
ever
be
your
Wife
.
With
that
he
rose
up
,
and
,
without
any
complement
,
went
into
another
room
.
Donna
Brianda
follow'd
him
,
and
the
two
Cousins
,
without
so
much
as
a
word
exchang'd
,
went
home
,
where
Don
Rodrigo
fell
into
bitter
expostulations
with
his
Cousin
,
for
his
engaging
himself
in
so
unworthy
an
action
.
Don
Pedro
had
nothing
to
reply
,
but
that
he
was
astonish'd
how
that
promise
came
to
be
sign'd
with
his
own
name
,
having
made
it
onely
under
a
supposititious
.
Leaving
them
in
that
confusion
,
making
several
reflections
on
the
adventure
,
let
us
return
to
the
feign'd
Waiting-woman
,
who
was
got
back
to
Don
Juan's
,
and
had
deliver'd
Don
Sancho's
Letter
to
Donna
Brianda
.
She
was
infinitely
satisfy'd
with
it
,
as
fearing
he
would
not
have
been
so
easily
retriv'd
into
her
service
.
Donna
Brianda
acquainted
her
,
how
that
Don
Pedro
and
his
Cousin
had
been
there
;
what
had
pass'd
between
them
and
her
Father
;
and
that
he
had
absolutely
dismiss'd
them
,
it
being
discover'd
,
that
Don
Pedro
had
committed
another
impertinence
,
and
had
made
a
promise
of
Marriage
to
a
Lady
of
Toledo
,
who
was
come
express
to
Madrid
,
to
obstruct
his
pretensions
to
her
.
Donna
Victoria
pretended
the
greatest
astonishment
in
the
world
,
and
burst
forth
into
imprecations
against
Don
Pedro.
In
the
mean
time
there
came
a
message
to
Donna
Brianda
from
a
She-Cousin
of
hers
,
inviting
her
to
a
Comedy
which
was
to
be
represented
at
her
House
,
that
night
,
whereto
she
sent
Answer
,
that
she
would
come
.
Donna
Victoria
having
made
so
successful
a
progress
in
her
business
,
bethought
her self
of
an
invention
that
should
bring
it
to
an
absolute
period
,
for
she
had
the
management
of
all
.
She
told
Donna
Brianda
,
that
if
she
pleas'd
to
wave
her
going
to
the
Comedy
she
might
have
a
meeting
that
night
with
Don
Sancho
,
in
a
secure
place
,
to
wit
at
her
Father's
house
,
where
she
might
do
what
she
pleas'd
her self
.
The
Lady
had
a
great
kindness
for
Don
Sancho
,
and
was
desirous
to
prevent
the
reproaches
he
might
make
upon
her
former
discarding
of
him
,
and
so
she
accepted
the
proffer
made
by
her
Woman
.
She
immediately
sent
for
Santillana
,
and
gave
him
a
Letter
for
Don
Sancho
,
whereby
he
was
desir'd
to
come
that
night
at
eight
to
Donna
Victoria's
house
.
He
was
sent
with
another
to
Don
Pedro
de
Ribera
,
acquainting
him
that
Donna
Brianda
,
notwithstanding
the
indignation
of
her
Father
,
and
what
she
her self
had
said
,
was
resolv'd
secretly
to
marry
him
,
and
desir'd
to
meet
him
that
night
,
at
a
House
,
whither
the
Bearer
would
bring
him
,
and
that
he
should
not
fail
to
be
there
at
nine
.
The
two
Cavaliers
kindly
receiv'd
their
Letters
,
especially
Don
Pedro
,
who
being
but
a
little
before
dismiss'd
,
was
re-call'd
to
joyn
hands
with
Donna
Brianda
,
and
imagin'd
it
done
by
the
intercession
of
the
Waiting-Gentlewoman
,
to
whom
he
thought
himself
infinitely
oblig'd
,
and
the
present
he
had
made
her
well
bestow'd
.
The
two
Gallants
fail'd
not
to
be
there
at
the
time
appointed
,
and
in
the
mean
time
Donna
Brianda
and
her
Woman
took
Coach
,
leaving
Don
Juan
at
home
,
ready
to
go
to
bed
.
They
went
to
Donna
Victoria's
house
,
which
seem'd
to
be
that
of
Santillana
,
where
they
were
receiv'd
by
Marcella
,
Victoria's
maid
,
who
went
under
the
name
of
her
Step-mother
.
While
Donna
Brianda
was
expecting
the
arrival
of
Don
Sancho
,
she
sent
Albert
with
a
Letter
to
Don
Juan
,
which
contained
these
words
.
THE
LETTER
.
Sir
,
MY
Lady
Donna
Brianda
,
instead
of
going
to
see
the
Comedy
,
whereto
she
had
been
invited
,
is
come
to
my
Father's
house
,
with
a
resolution
to
be
secretly
married
to
Don
Pedro
,
notwithstanding
your
prohibitions
to
the
contrary
.
I
conceiv'd
it
my
duty
to
give
you
notice
thereof
,
it
is
your
work
to
take
what
course
you
think
fit
to
prevent
it
;
for
my
part
I
have
done
what
lay
in
me
,
and
I
shall
not
need
to
fear
any
reproach
from
you
,
since
I
have
sent
you
timely
notice
of
her
intention
.
Donna
Theodora
.
Santillana
was
dispatch'd
away
with
this
Letter
,
and
order'd
not
to
deliver
it
till
half
an
hour
after
nine
,
which
he
did
.
In
the
mean
time
Don
Sancho
fail'd
not
to
come
,
precisely
at
his
time
,
and
was
directed
to
his
Mistress
,
who
gave
him
such
satisfaction
as
silenc'd
all
his
complaints
.
Victoria
left
them
together
in
a
room
,
where
she
lock'd
them
in
.
Not
long
after
came
Don
Pedro
,
according
to
the
time
appointed
him
,
and
was
receiv'd
by
Victoria
,
who
dispos'd
him
into
a
room
,
without
light
,
alledging
it
concern'd
him
,
that
he
were
not
seen
;
that
he
should
forbear
making
any
noise
,
and
that
it
would
not
be
long
ere
his
Mistress
came
to
him
.
He
promis'd
to
obey
her
in
all
things
,
and
staid
there
so
long
as
that
Victoria
might
shift
her self
into
Cloaths
suitable
to
her
quality
.
That
done
,
she
went
into
the
room
,
and
speaking
very
low
,
it
was
no
hard
matter
for
her
to
deceive
Don
Pedro
,
and
to
make
him
believe
he
was
very
much
in
his
Mistress's
favour
.
Leaving
these
young
people
thus
match'd
let
us
return
to
Don
Juan
,
who
receiv'd
the
Letter
from
the
Duenna
just
as
he
was
getting
into
bed
.
The
old
Gentleman
was
extreamly
surpris'd
thereat
,
and
going
out
of
doors
,
attended
by
Albert
,
he
went
to
the
Commissary's
house
,
which
was
hard
by
.
The
afflicted
Man
acquainted
him
what
posture
things
were
in
;
whereupon
the
Commissary
taking
some
of
his
people
about
him
,
they
went
to
Albert's
house
,
where
,
after
some
knocking
,
they
were
let
in
.
They
happily
had
a
Lantern
with
them
,
and
it
did
them
good
service
,
for
they
found
the
House
without
any
light
.
They
lighted
a
Torch
,
and
went
into
several
rooms
,
in
one
whereof
finding
Don
Sancho
and
Donna
Brianda
,
the
Commissary
ask'd
them
what
they
did
there
?
Don
Sancho
told
him
he
was
there
with
his
Wife
,
which
was
confirm'd
by
Donna
Brianda
.
Don
Juan
would
have
run
him
through
;
but
the
Commissary
telling
him
she
was
not
with
the
person
he
imagin'd
,
that
that
Gentleman
was
Don
Sancho
de
Leyba
,
a
person
of
great
quality
and
well
known
about
the
Court
,
Don
Juan
could
do
no
less
than
approve
of
their
Marriage
,
though
't
were
onely
out
of
a
satisfaction
,
that
she
was
not
fallen
into
the
hands
of
Don
Pedro
,
whom
he
hated
extreamly
,
for
the
strange
pranks
he
had
plaid
.
They
went
thence
into
another
room
,
which
they
found
lock'd
,
and
thereupon
threatning
to
break
open
the
door
,
Don
Pedro
open'd
it
within
,
and
comes
out
telling
them
he
was
there
with
Donna
Brianda
his
wife
,
and
that
it
was
with
her
consent
,
he
was
come
into
that
house
to
marry
her
.
Upon
that
discourse
Donna
Victoria
came
out
of
the
room
and
said
to
him
,
You
are
deceiv'd
,
sweet
Seignor
Don
Pedro
,
I
a●
not
the
woman
you
think
me
,
but
Donna
Victori●
de
Sylva
,
who
expects
from
you
the
reparation
o●
her
honour
;
the
recovery
whereof
oblig'd
me
t●
enter
into
the
service
of
Donna
Brianda
,
serving
he●
in
the
quality
of
a
Waiting-woman
.
Don
Juan
de
〈◊〉
Cerda
looking
on
her
a
little
more
attentively
that
he
had
done
,
knew
her
,
as
also
did
the
fair
Lad●
Donna
Brianda
.
Both
of
them
reflecting
on
the
disguises
she
had
run
through
to
retrive
her
Honour
,
very
seriously
commended
her
courage
and
contrivances
,
and
as
much
blamed
Don
Pedro
,
who
finding
himself
convinc'd
,
and
condemn'd
of
all
,
ratifi●●
once
more
the
promise
he
had
made
her
.
Don
Sanch●
and
his
Mistress
were
ensur'd
one
to
the
other
,
an●
the
solemnity
of
their
marriage
ordered
to
be
eigh●
days
after
.
They
prov'd
both
very
happy
in
thei●
wives
,
of
whom
they
had
many
children
,
who
were
the
comfort
and
felicity
of
their
Parents
.
But
particularly
for
Don
Pedro
,
when
he
reflected
on
the
strange
adventures
whereby
Donna
Victoria
engag'd
him
to
his
duty
,
he
look'd
on
all
as
so
many
extraordinary
demonstrations
of
her
affection
,
towards
him
,
which
occasion'd
his
to
be
multipli'd
towards
her
,
besides
the
kindness
he
had
for
her
upon
the
account
of
her
ingenuity
.
For
wit
in
a
Woman
is
a
great
enflamer
of
Love
,
especially
that
Woman's
wit
whic●
is
ever
best
at
a
dead
lift
.
RUfina
and
her
Maids
were
extremely
pleas'd
with
this
Novel
of
Don
faimo's
;
that
eloquence
which
was
so
natural
in
him
,
added
as
so
many
precious
grains
to
the
perfect
metall
of
his
other
excellent
qualities
,
rendred
him
of
so
good
weight
in
her
esteem
,
that
she
could
no
longer
forbear
expressing
it
in
her
words
and
actions
.
On
the
other
side
,
the
Gallant
,
finding
her
so
tractable
,
resolv'd
to
desist
from
the
intention
he
had
to
rob
her
,
and
wish'd
for
a
handsome
opportunity
to
acquaint
her
therewith
,
which
soon
happened
.
For
Rufina
persuading
her self
that
Don
Jaimo
was
the
same
person
he
had
describ'd
himself
in
his
relation
,
told
him
,
that
she
had
some
intentions
,
before
her
Father
were
return'd
from
Madrid
,
to
leave
the
house
she
was
in
,
to
carry
along
with
her
all
the
best
houshold-stuff
,
and
to
go
with
him
into
Valentia
,
since
he
was
so
powerful
in
those
parts
,
and
descended
from
so
illustrious
a
Family
,
and
that
her
Father
would
not
be
dis-satisfi'd
with
her
marriage
,
when
he
should
come
to
hear
of
it
.
The
disguis'd
Cavalier
was
forc'd
,
upon
this
occasion
,
to
discover
how
it
had
been
resolv'd
that
he
should
trapan
her
,
and
not
desirous
she
should
continue
any
longer
ignorant
of
the
imposture
,
My
dear
heart
,
said
he
to
her
,
having
experienc'd
the
kindness
and
affection
wherewith
you
have
been
pleas'd
to
honour
me
,
I
were
the
most
ingrateful
person
in
the
world
,
if
I
should
keep
you
in
darkness
any
longer
.
No
,
I
will
make
an
absolute
and
full
discovery
of
my self
to
you
,
and
tell
you
such
things
as
have
hitherto
not
so
much
as
entred
your
imagination
;
and
certainly
I
were
not
pardonable
,
if
the
sincere
affection
I
bear
you
did
not
somewhat
alleviate
my
crime
.
I
do
not
say
it
consists
in
my
loving
of
you
,
for
it
is
impossible
,
that
those
who
have
once
a
sight
of
your
divine
beauty
should
not
love
you
:
I
have
seen
it
,
and
,
subdu'd
by
your
charms
,
am
become
a
captive
thereto
,
my
liberty
and
all
the
powers
and
faculties
of
my
soul
being
absolutely
at
your
disposal
.
'T
is
a
Victory
,
Madam
,
which
you
might
easily
obtain
over
hearts
much
more
rebellious
against
Love
than
mine
is
,
which
became
your
slave
,
upon
the
first
sight
of
those
two
Suns
;
and
this
is
a
truth
I
shall
never
recant
while
I
live
.
The
meaning
of
this
Preamble
is
,
to
induce
you
to
pardon
me
the
offence
I
have
committed
against
you
.
I
now
ingeniously
acknowledge
,
that
I
am
not
the
person
I
describ'd
in
the
account
you
oblig'd
me
to
give
me
of
my
extraction
,
though
it
be
true
I
was
born
in
Valentia
;
but
one
meanly
descended
,
yet
of
people
of
good
repute
.
My
Father
got
his
livelihood
by
the
labour
of
his
hands
,
and
the
sweat
of
his
brows
,
being
by
profession
a
Rope-maker
.
Me-thought
I
had
some
apprehensions
above
my
condition
;
and
therefore
unwilling
to
fall
to
my
Father's
laborious
trade
,
I
went
into
Casteel
,
having
before
been
in
Andalusia
,
and
I
made
those
advantages
of
my
Travel
and
the
conversation
I
met
with
,
and
improv'd
the
natural
Talent
I
had
so
well
,
that
I
never
wanted
either
friends
or
mony
.
I
came
to
this
City
in
the
company
of
a
man
named
Crispin
,
who
had
been
a
prisoner
some
time
at
Malaga
,
for
some
crime
he
would
by
no
means
acknowledge
to
me
.
The
person
hath
oblig'd
me
,
having
born
my
charges
all
the
way
;
nay
more
,
he
hath
lent
me
mony
,
out
of
a
confidence
of
the
reality
I
had
to
serve
him
,
in
the
secret
trade
we
drove
together
.
He
declar'd
his
mind
to
me
one
day
,
and
advis'd
me
,
by
some
pretence
or
other
,
to
get
into
your
house
,
for
he
knew
you
had
good
store
of
mony
,
and
was
desirous
to
disburthen
you
of
some
part
of
it
.
From
the
discourse
he
made
,
I
inferr'd
,
that
he
had
been
a
prisoner
at
Malaga
for
some
robbery
.
Now
to
compass
our
design
,
we
pretended
a
quarrel
,
which
should
oblige
me
to
take
refuge
in
your
house
:
and
in
the
mean
time
,
you
have
entertain'd
me
with
such
extraordinary
kindness
,
and
have
so
nobly
oblig'd
me
,
that
I
find
the
favours
you
have
done
me
will
frustrate
Crispin's
intention
.
And
therefore
now
that
I
acquaint
you
with
the
trick
we
design'd
to
put
upon
you
,
assure
your self
I
will
endeavour
to
retort
it
upon
himself
,
and
get
out
of
him
what
mony
he
hath
,
to
chastise
him
for
his
folly
.
For
heaven
forbid
I
should
prove
ingrateful
to
a
person
who
hath
oblig'd
me
so
highly
as
you
have
done
.
I
have
discover'd
my
Soul
to
you
,
dispose
of
me
now
as
you
think
fit
,
for
I
am
resolv'd
to
perish
,
ere
I
ever
consent
you
shall
receive
any
injury
,
though
I
have
disclaim'd
the
quality
,
I
had
unjustly
assum'd
.
Rufina
was
extremely
exasperated
against
Crispin
,
not
so
much
for
his
design
to
be
reveng'd
on
her
for
the
prank
she
plaid
him
at
Malaga
,
but
upon
an
apprehension
that
he
might
have
acquainted
Jaimo
what
kind
of
person
she
was
,
and
what
trade
she
drove
.
Whereupon
consdering
that
he
had
so
ingenuously
discover'd
himself
to
her
,
and
acknowledg'd
even
to
the
meanness
of
his
birth
,
she
thought
her self
oblig'd
to
do
the
like
,
and
to
give
him
a
sincere
account
of
her
descent
,
course
of
life
,
friends
,
in
a
word
,
all
her
adventures
,
to
her
arrival
at
Toledo
.
But
Love
and
Wine
make
people
talk
more
than
they
should
.
Jaimo
was
glad
that
Rufina
was
no
better
descended
than
himself
:
that
equality
of
condition
not
onely
occasion'd
a
greater
kindness
,
but
begat
thoughts
of
a
match
,
between
them
.
They
resolv'd
to
leave
Toledo
,
and
to
take
up
their
habitation
at
Madrid
;
but
Rufina
told
him
,
she
would
first
be
reveng'd
of
Crispin
,
who
intended
to
serve
her
such
a
base
trick
.
Jaimo
undertook
it
,
telling
her
,
that
under
pretence
of
their
acquaintance
and
friendship
,
he
might
easily
bring
him
into
the
noose
,
and
not
onely
leave
him
mony-less
,
but
also
find
him
a
good
secure
lodging
,
lest
he
should
attempt
to
revenge
himself
.
With
this
resolution
,
leaving
Rufina's
he
went
to
Crispin
,
whom
he
found
at
his
lodging
,
not
expecting
to
have
seen
him
so
soon
.
He
was
over-joy'd
to
heat
how
his
Companion
had
insinuated
himself
into
Rufina's
favour
,
whereupon
the
other
telling
him
,
that
to
make
sure
work
of
her
,
he
wanted
a
summe
of
mony
,
as
well
for
expence
,
as
to
gain
rhe
Servants
,
the
Apostate
Hermite
answered
he
should
not
want
it
.
By
this
means
Jaimo
thought
to
oblige
him
to
a
greater
confidence
of
him
,
heightning
the
intended
cheat
with
a
thousand
oaths
of
an
inviolable
Friendship
.
Thus
was
that
old
experienc'd
Turn-key
of
villany
brought
into
a
Fool
's
paradise
;
for
,
that
Jaimo
might
live
sutably
to
the
relation
he
had
made
of
himself
,
he
gave
him
a
hundred
pieces
in
gold
,
to
be
dispos'd
of
as
he
pleas'd
,
hoping
to
have
them
return'd
,
attended
with
six
times
as
many
.
He
took
them
out
of
a
bag
where
were
five
or
six
hundred
more
,
some
part
of
his
former
atchievments
.
Jaimo
observ'd
the
place
,
where
he
put
up
that
treasure
,
and
swore
to
himself
,
that
he
would
not
sleep
heartily
till
be
had
alter'd
the
property
of
that
bag
.
While
Crispin
was
gone
out
to
give
the
Hostess
order
for
a
brace
of
Partridges
and
a
Rabet
for
his
,
and
his
Camerade's
supper
,
he
went
to
the
port-manteu
,
wherein
the
mony
was
garison'd
,
and
opening
the
chain
(
a
thing
he
could
do
as
cleaverly
as
any
of
his
profession
)
took
out
the
bag
,
and
dispos'd
it
into
a
place
,
whence
he
might
easily
remove
it
at
his
departure
.
They
supp'd
very
merrily
,
which
ended
,
Jaimo
tooke
leave
of
Crispin
,
putting
him
over
head
and
ears
in
hope
,
that
he
would
bring
his
design
to
a
period
.
He
went
straight
to
Rufina's
,
who
it
may
well
be
presum'd
,
receiv'd
him
very
kindly
.
He
gave
her
an
account
what
had
pass'd
between
him
and
Crispin
,
and
how
he
had
with
his
own
mony
promoted
the
design
he
had
to
chouse
him
.
Being
alone
with
her
,
he
shew'd
her
the
goodly
pieces
,
for
she
had
a
great
affection
to
mony
of
that
colour
.
Jaimo
represented
to
her
,
how
much
it
concern'd
them
to
leave
Toledo
,
before
Crispin
should
take
notice
of
the
loss
of
his
mony
.
Rufina
told
him
,
that
she
knew
an
expedient
for
that
,
which
was
,
to
serve
Crispin
such
a
trick
at
Toledo
,
as
she
had
done
at
Malaga
.
Having
thereupon
writ
a
large
Letter
to
the
Magistrate
,
whose
province
it
is
to
persecute
such
people
,
they
set
things
in
order
for
their
departure
,
and
met
with
two
Wagons
,
then
going
for
Madrid
,
wherein
they
put
their
goods
,
taking
onely
the
She-slave
to
wait
on
them
.
They
went
to
the
Court
,
where
,
as
in
a
Sea
,
so
many
Rivers
meet
,
having
resolv'd
that
Rufina
should
not
appear
,
till
they
had
some
news
of
Garay
.
Leaving
them
there
,
let
us
see
what
was
the
effect
of
the
Letter
sent
to
the
Provost
.
As
soon
as
he
had
read
it
,
he
went
,
according
to
the
directions
therein
receiv'd
,
attended
by
some
of
his
Officers
,
to
Crispin's
lodging
,
who
,
impatiently
expecting
,
that
Jaim●
should
make
his
way
into
Rufina's
house
,
and
thereby
put
him
into
possession
of
all
her
mony
,
was
taken
in
his
chamber
,
and
thence
conducted
to
prison
.
Not
long
before
,
one
of
the
Judges
of
Malaga
,
had
been
at
Toledo
,
to
look
for
him
,
and
not
finding
him
,
had
left
with
the
Provost
some
observations
on
his
Physiognomy
,
by
which
,
though
the
habit
he
then
was
in
disguiz'd
him
very
much
,
it
was
more
then
presum'd
,
that
he
was
the
person
.
They
seiz'd
on
what
he
had
in
the
house
,
among
which
he
thought
the
Gold
,
which
Jaimo
had
eas'd
him
of
,
had
been
,
for
he
knew
nothing
of
its
departure
,
which
happen'd
well
for
the
two
Lovers
,
who
were
already
dislodg'd
.
The
issue
of
his
imprisonment
,
was
,
that
,
being
put
to
the
Torture
,
he
could
not
keep
his
own
counsel
,
and
so
was
sentenc'd
to
receive
the
reward
of
his
confessions
,
Hanging
.
'T
was
Heaven's
kindness
towards
him
,
that
he
should
end
his
days
with
some
remorse
for
his
sins
,
for
though
that
be
the
ordinary
exit
of
such
as
engage
themselves
in
that
wretched
kind
of
life
,
yet
are
there
many
of
them
whose
guilty
souls
,
are
,
by
sword
and
pistol
,
dispatch'd
into
the
other
world
,
without
the
least
act
of
contrition
.
This
was
the
end
of
poor
Crispin
,
who
made
a
publick
acknowledgment
of
all
the
robberies
and
villanies
he
had
committed
,
while
he
was
a
Hermit
,
to
the
great
edification
of
the
people
.
He
was
also
observ'd
to
have
this
generosity
,
that
he
named
not
any
person
who
had
been
engag'd
with
him
in
his
designs
;
nay
though
he
knew
,
the
present
misfortune
had
been
procur'd
him
by
his
Friend
Jaimo
,
yet
he
Christianly
forgave
him
and
all
the
world
at
his
death
.
In
the
mean
time
Rufina
and
Jaimo
were
married
as
soon
as
they
came
to
Madrid
,
but
kept
out
of
Garay's
fight
.
He
went
soon
after
to
Alcala
,
where
he
had
been
told
his
Wife
was
,
but
finding
her
not
,
he
struck
in
with
some
of
his
own
Profession
,
and
the
result
was
,
that
being
surpris'd
in
a
Robbery
,
they
were
all
condemn'd
to
the
lash
,
and
six
years
recreation
in
the
Galleys
.
He
was
brought
to
the
chain
at
Toledo
,
which
eas'd
his
mind
a
little
,
for
,
thinking
Rufina
had
been
there
still
,
he
writ
a
Letter
to
her
,
desiring
her
,
in
regard
she
had
gotten
all
she
was
worth
by
his
co-operation
and
assistance
,
that
she
would
have
compassion
on
him
,
and
exempt
him
from
that
penance
,
by
buying
a
Slave
in
his
stead
,
a
thing
commonly
practis'd
.
The
Beater
enquires
for
Rufina
,
where
he
had
directed
,
but
the
Neighbours
told
him
,
that
she
had
left
Toledo
;
so
that
honest
Garay
,
burthen'd
with
Iron
,
Years
,
and
Hardship
,
came
to
have
that
relation
to
his
Catholick
Majesty
,
which
he
and
many
others
,
though
they
justly
deserv'd
it
,
little
expected
to
be
preferr'd
to
.
On
the
contrary
Don
Jaimo
liv'd
like
a
Prince
at
Madrid
,
where
he
soon
met
with
some
of
his
own
Constitution
,
a
sort
of
people
,
who
,
like
Foxes
,
never
fare
better
than
when
they
are
most
curst
.
They
committed
some
secret
Robberies
,
with
such
caution
and
industry
,
that
the
Authors
thereof
could
never
be
discover'd
,
whereby
they
were
so
flesh'd
and
encourag'd
,
that
they
daily
found
out
new
designs
.
There
was
started
up
about
this
time
at
Madrid
an
excellent
Company
of
Players
,
brought
together
by
the
excessive
charge
and
liberality
of
a
Grandee
of
Spain
,
a
person
of
vast
Wealth
.
What
his
design
was
in
it
,
I
know
not
,
whether
he
did
it
out
of
charity
,
or
for
his
particular
divertisement
,
or
upon
some
other
account
to
me
unknown
;
but
he
made
it
his
business
to
see
it
furnish'd
with
all
things
requisite
.
He
was
desirous
they
might
have
the
advantages
of
the
Feast
of
the
B.
Sacrament
,
at
which
time
,
the
Players
of
the
City
may
,
during
all
the
days
of
the
Octave
,
represent
their
Plays
in
the
open
streets
,
where
all
are
welcome
without
paying
;
and
this
is
done
every
year
at
Madrid
,
at
the
time
of
that
Feast
.
To
effectuate
his
design
,
he
bought
them
some
new
Plays
of
the
best
Poets
in
Spain
,
whom
he
paid
well
,
and
put
upon
some
other
pieces
,
for
the
accomplishment
of
that
famous
Company
.
So
that
another
Company
,
which
was
then
at
Madrid
,
being
too
weak
to
stand
in
competition
with
this
,
was
forc'd
to
leave
the
City
,
and
go
to
Toledo
,
where
they
had
,
from
that
Imperial
City
,
the
ordinary
Salary
for
representing
the
best
pieces
they
had
,
at
the
same
Feast
.
This
new
Company
had
the
whole
Court
to
it self
,
and
the
said
Grandee
gave
them
by
way
of
advance
four
thousand
Crowns
,
to
provide
Cloaths
suitable
to
the
Pieces
they
intended
to
represent
.
This
sum
of
money
was
brought
into
the
House
of
one
of
the
Players
,
an
ingenious
and
understanding
person
,
for
whom
the
rest
had
such
respect
,
that
all
things
pass'd
through
his
hands
;
he
also
took
care
for
all
things
,
and
gave
a
very
faithful
account
thereof
.
He
dispos'd
this
money
into
a
great
Chest
,
whereof
he
always
carried
the
Key
about
him
.
Jaimo's
company
soon
had
an
inkling
of
it
,
and
thinking
it
a
noble
prize
to
hook
in
that
money
,
they
propos'd
several
ways
to
compass
it
,
but
at
last
referr'd
all
their
deliberations
to
Jaimo
,
whose
advice
they
had
,
upon
other
occasions
,
found
the
best
.
He
desir'd
time
to
consider
till
the
next
day
.
That
night
he
spent
in
communicating
the
business
to
his
Wife
,
whom
he
acquainted
with
the
several
proposals
of
his
Camerades
.
She
gave
him
infallible
directions
how
the
business
should
be
effected
.
Jaimo
had
the
reputation
of
being
able
to
do
somewhat
in
Poetry
,
upon
which
they
laid
the
Plot
,
and
it
was
approv'd
by
his
Companions
.
The
next
day
,
Jaimo
was
clad
like
a
Scholar
newly
come
from
the
University
,
in
a
Cassock
and
long
Cloak
very
bare
,
and
spotted
in
many
places
.
Thus
accoutred
,
he
smelt
as
strongly
of
the
Poet
as
if
he
had
fed
on
nothing
but
Verses
from
his
Mother's
milk
.
They
fitted
his
Nose
with
a
good
large
pair
of
Spectacles
,
which
were
fasten'd
to
his
Ears
with
a
Lute-string
,
a
thing
very
common
in
Spain
,
and
furnish'd
him
with
a
huge
broad-brimm'd
Hat
;
in
fine
he
had
all
things
requisite
,
to
act
the
part
of
a
ridiculous
and
extravagant
Poet
,
which
was
the
way
they
conceiv'd
most
likely
to
compass
their
design
.
He
went
thus
to
the
Comedians
,
who
were
met
at
their
Theatre
,
and
upon
the
rehearsal
of
a
piece
,
which
was
to
be
represented
within
three
days
.
He
address'd
himself
to
the
person
who
had
the
oversight
of
the
Company
,
for
he
had
enquir'd
out
his
name
,
and
coming
to
him
with
a
great
many
congees
,
(
after
he
had
ask'd
him
how
he
did
.
)
I
am
a
Poet
,
Sir
,
said
he
to
him
,
so
you
take
it
not
ill
.
The
Comedian
,
as
we
told
you
,
was
a
very
apprehensive
person
,
and
often
had
to
do
with
such
phantasms
of
extravagant
Men
,
such
as
Jaimo
seem'd
to
be
by
that
abrupt
introduction
.
Many
years
may
you
be
so
,
Sir
,
repli'd
he
,
assure
your self
,
it
shall
not
trouble
me
at
all
.
The
design
of
my
studies
,
says
the
other
,
was
to
become
eminent
in
Divinity
,
that
so
I
might
be
capable
of
a
good
Benefice
,
in
order
to
which
I
have
already
taken
the
degree
of
Batchelour
of
Divinity
,
in
the
University
of
Iracha
,
with
the
great
applause
of
all
my
Country-men
;
for
I
am
a
Biscayan
,
to
serve
God
,
and
your
illustrious
Company
.
I
was
born
at
the
Town
of
Ordugna
,
and
I
have
the
advantage
to
be
alli'd
to
the
most
honourable
families
of
that
ancient
place
.
I
am
known
by
the
name
of
the
Batchelour
Dominico
Joancho
,
and
my
fame
is
great
in
my
own
Country
,
which
I
told
you
is
Biscay
.
There
it
was
(
not
slighting
the
Talent
,
which
it
hath
pleas'd
Heaven
to
give
me
gratis
,
by
causing
me
to
be
born
a
Poet
)
that
I
addicted
my self
to
the
study
of
Poetry
,
wherein
I
have
been
wonderfully
fortunate
;
and
finding
that
all
people
admir'd
my
works
,
and
many
were
importunate
with
me
to
publish
them
,
I
would
needs
make
a
trial
what
kind
of
fancy
I
might
have
in
the
writing
of
Plays
.
Those
I
have
made
are
not
such
as
are
now
in
Vogue
,
written
by
some
Novice
Poets
as
I
may
call
them
;
No
,
I
thank
Mercury
and
the
Muses
,
mine
are
of
a
kind
of
extraordinary
stile
,
and
I
can
furnish
you
with
a
dozen
at
least
ready
for
the
Stage
.
I
am
come
to
this
Court
,
where
there
are
excellent
Wits
,
and
I
have
had
the
honour
to
be
esteem'd
here
according
to
my
worth
,
and
I
may
without
vanity
affirm
it
,
that
the
most
humorous
Judgements
have
acknowledg'd
that
my
perfections
are
more
than
ordinary
.
But
I
think
it
my
greatest
happiness
,
Sir
,
that
I
flourish
in
the
same
Age
with
so
noble
and
illustrious
a
Company
,
which
may
be
called
the
Flower
of
all
those
that
ever
were
in
Spain
,
in
whose
service
I
would
employ
the
Talent
God
hath
bestow'd
on
me
,
if
your self
,
and
the
rest
of
your
honourable
Company
be
so
pleas'd
.
What
number
of
Plays
I
have
promis'd
you
,
all
of
my
own
Writing
,
you
need
but
call
for
.
As
to
the
price
,
you
are
so
reasonable
,
that
we
shall
not
disagree
:
Be
pleas'd
,
Sir
,
to
honour
me
so
far
,
as
to
make
me
acquainted
with
the
rest
of
your
Company
,
that
they
may
give
me
their
sence
,
as
to
what
I
propose
.
This
Comedian
was
of
an
humour
much
different
from
many
others
of
that
Quality
,
who
,
when
a
Poet
,
whom
they
know
not
,
comes
to
present
them
with
a
Comedy
,
slight
him
so
far
as
that
they
will
not
so
much
as
give
him
audience
,
as
if
that
Divine
Power
,
which
hath
inspir'd
those
that
are
in
Vogue
,
had
confin'd
his
gifts
to
them
,
and
had
nothing
left
to
bestow
on
others
.
But
this
Comedian
,
I
say
,
was
of
a
very
jovial
and
pleasant
humour
,
and
was
glad
of
any
such
occasion
to
divert
himself
.
So
that
measuring
the
inside
of
the
person
by
his
out-side
and
discourse
,
he
told
him
,
that
he
did
them
a
transcendent
honour
,
and
that
he
gave
him
thanks
in
the
name
of
the
whole
company
.
Then
turning
about
to
his
Companions
,
Gentlemen
,
said
he
to
them
,
be
pleas'd
to
take
notice
of
the
renowned
Batchelor
Dominico
Joancho
,
a
Nobleman
of
Biscay
and
most
excellent
Poet
,
whose
productions
for
the
Theatre
are
beyond
all
admiration
,
and
who
proffers
to
exhaust
his
precious
vein
for
our's
,
having
already
finish'd
at
least
a
dozen
pieces
,
which
he
hath
a
desire
to
shew
us
.
The
other
Comedians
,
by
the
discourse
of
their
Camerade
,
and
by
the
ill
equipage
,
and
worse
looks
of
the
person
,
easily
discover'd
,
that
he
and
his
wits
were
at
a
little
distance
,
which
oblig'd
them
to
pretend
,
that
they
were
extreamly
engag'd
to
him
,
and
so
they
all
gave
him
,
one
after
another
,
a
very
civil
salute
,
which
he
very
unhandsomely
return'd
.
He
who
had
first
spoken
to
him
,
ask'd
him
,
whether
he
would
have
the
patience
till
they
had
done
rehearsing
,
which
would
not
be
long
,
in
regard
they
had
gone
over
it
three
or
four
times
before
,
and
had
now
but
some
particular
Scenes
to
look
over
,
and
then
they
would
see
some
of
his
Pieces
,
if
he
would
be
pleas'd
to
communicate
them
;
which
he
promis'd
to
do
.
He
took
a
chair
and
sate
very
quietly
till
the
Rehearsal
was
over
.
By
that
time
they
had
made
an
end
,
it
was
so
near
night
,
that
they
could
not
well
do
any
thing
without
candles
.
They
call'd
for
some
,
and
sitting
all
about
him
,
they
desir'd
him
to
read
the
titles
of
the
twelve
Comedies
,
which
he
said
were
ready
for
the
Stage
.
The
counterfeit
Author
,
who
acted
his
part
very
pleasantly
,
took
a
Paper
out
of
his
Pocket
,
and
read
to
them
,
as
followeth
.
A
Catalogue
of
Plays
written
this
present
year
,
by
the
Batchelour
Dominico
Joancho
,
a
Biscayan
Poet.
-
1.
The
Extravagant
Infanta
.
-
2.
The
Lucifer
of
Yepes
.
-
3.
Gandaya
.
-
4.
The
Creation
of
the
World
.
-
5.
Noah's
Ark.
-
6.
The
French-Pox
.
-
7.
Almonds
for
such
as
have
no
Teeth
.
-
8.
The
scorching
Summer
.
-
9.
Between
two
Stools
the
—
comes
to
the
ground
.
-
10.
The
Pilgrimage
of
St.
James
.
-
11.
The
Good
Thief
on
the
Cross
.
-
12.
The
Seignoress
of
Biscay
.
These
,
says
he
,
are
the
twelve
Comedies
I
have
already
finish'd
:
I
would
not
willingly
have
any
of
them
represented
before
the
last
,
because
the
Adventure
is
of
my
own
Country
,
and
it
is
a
most
excellent
Comedy
,
the
contrivances
of
it
are
admirable
,
and
I
need
give
you
no
further
commendation
of
it
,
than
that
it
hath
cost
me
abundance
of
oil
and
time
,
and
that
I
bit
my
nails
above
a
hundred
times
at
the
writing
of
it
.
The
Comedians
had
much
ado
to
keep
their
countenances
,
for
they
could
hardly
forbear
laughing
at
extravagant
Titles
of
the
Comedies
,
and
wish'd
they
had
had
more
time
to
enjoy
the
conversation
of
the
Biscain
Poet.
He
who
had
spoken
to
him
first
,
giving
him
thanks
in
the
name
of
the
whole
company
;
I
am
infinitely
glad
,
Sir
,
said
he
to
him
,
that
I
have
had
the
honour
of
coming
to
the
knowledge
of
you
,
from
your
own
self
,
for
till
now
,
I
must
,
to
my
shame
,
acknowledge
,
that
I
had
not
so
much
as
heard
of
your
illustrious
name
:
you
will
injure
your self
extremely
,
if
you
do
not
make
the
Court
of
Spain
sensible
of
your
excellent
parts
.
I
am
therefore
to
intreat
you
,
in
the
name
of
our
whole
Company
,
that
you
will
be
pleas'd
to
honour
us
with
that
Piece
of
yours
,
which
you
conceive
most
likely
to
take
,
though
we
question
not
but
your
reputation
is
even
beyond
your
own
expressions
of
it
.
You
know
the
custom
of
Poets
,
when
they
are
first
to
appear
on
the
Stage
,
which
is
,
to
present
it
with
the
first
Piece
gratis
;
for
what
we
shall
receive
from
you
afterwards
,
you
shall
be
satisfi'd
according
to
our
agreement
,
and
it
is
possible
,
they
may
please
so
well
,
that
we
shall
act
onely
yours
,
for
one
year
at
least
;
and
rather
than
we
shall
be
behind-hand
with
you
,
we
shall
not
stick
to
borrow
mony
,
though
at
ever
so
great
interest
.
'T
is
now
late
,
and
supper-time
calls
us
away
,
which
ended
,
we
shall
have
more
leisure
to
discourse
further
,
if
you
please
to
give
me
and
my
Companions
the
meeting
at
my
chamber
.
There
we
hope
you
will
communicate
to
us
your
thoughts
of
that
Comedy
,
which
you
shall
be
pleas'd
to
recommend
to
us
.
If
you
leave
it
to
my
choice
,
as
it
is
fit
you
should
,
repli'd
he
,
the
Seignoress
of
Biscay
shall
be
the
first
I
will
read
to
you
,
for
I
have
a
confidence
,
by
that
,
to
raise
my self
into
the
reputation
of
a
good
Author
,
and
to
acquire
the
esteem
of
this
Court
.
He
who
was
the
Speaker
of
the
Company
,
said
to
him
,
Will
you
be
pleas'd
,
Sir
,
to
give
me
a
little
satisfaction
as
to
the
Title
of
that
Comedy
;
you
call
it
,
The
Seignoress
,
whereby
me-thinks
it
should
rather
have
been
The
Lady
of
Biscay
,
that
being
a
more
usual
tearm
.
You
are
very
much
in
the
right
,
replies
the
feign'd
Poet
;
but
I
do
it
purposely
,
for
the
King
entitles
himself
onely
Seignor
of
Biscay
,
and
not
Prince
,
Duke
,
Earl
,
or
Marquess
:
besides
I
have
another
reason
,
why
I
do
not
call
her
Lady
,
but
Seignoress
,
which
is
,
that
it
rhimes
with
Princess
,
and
all
other
words
of
the
like
termination
.
To
this
I
may
adde
,
that
the
word
is
new
,
and
you
know
the
times
are
such
now
,
that
all
the
world
runs
after
Novelties
,
even
to
the
very
lowest
sort
of
people
,
who
express
a
certain
disgust
towards
things
common
and
trivial
.
Your
reasons
are
beyond
all
expectation
,
replies
the
Commedian
,
and
therefore
I
shall
not
trouble
you
much
with
further
demands
.
No
trouble
at
all
,
says
the
counterfeit
Poet
,
you
oblige
me
,
for
though
you
your self
may
be
satisfi'd
as
to
my
worth
,
yet
some
others
here
present
may
be
glad
of
such
directions
,
as
I
onely
am
able
to
give
them
.
Your
most
humble
Servant
,
says
the
Comedian
,
then
for
their
better
information
who
you
conceive
may
want
it
,
give
me
leave
to
tell
you
,
that
I
am
not
satisfi'd
as
to
the
title
of
one
of
your
Plays
,
I
mean
that
which
you
call
Noah's
Ark
,
I
cannot
imagine
how
you
can
accommodate
that
Piece
to
the
Theatre
,
nor
who
can
be
the
Actors
,
for
I
see
but
very
few
can
be
brought
to
speak
in
it
.
I
must
pardon
your
ignorance
of
my
design
,
replies
the
Poet
,
for
if
you
knew
it
,
you
would
admire
the
invention
,
which
is
wholly
new
.
I
bring
in
as
Actors
in
that
Piece
all
those
Creatures
that
are
taught
to
speak
,
as
Parrats
,
Mag-pies
,
Jays
,
Starlings
,
Daws
,
and
others
,
a
thing
never
seen
before
,
and
which
,
for
its
novelty
,
must
needs
be
admir'd
.
They
could
hardly
forbear
laughing
at
his
former
discourses
,
but
this
humour
was
so
pleasant
,
that
it
was
impossible
to
hold
,
which
oblig'd
the
Author
to
ask
them
very
seriously
what
they
laugh'd
at
.
You
see
,
Sir
,
says
the
Speaker
,
how
likely
this
Novelty
is
to
take
with
the
people
,
since
it
makes
us
so
merry
,
out
of
a
conceit
,
that
we
shall
make
a
great
advantage
thereby
.
No
doubt
of
it
,
says
the
Poet.
But
no
more
,
of
the
titles
of
my
other
Pieces
,
let
us
talk
onely
of
that
which
I
would
have
represented
first
.
I
shall
hereafter
,
at
more
leisure
,
satisfie
the
difficulties
you
have
to
propose
concerning
the
other
titles
,
whereof
I
shall
give
you
the
explication
.
It
shall
be
so
,
said
he
who
had
spoken
to
him
;
to
which
purpose
,
we
shall
desire
your
company
at
my
house
anon
after
supper
,
where
we
shall
all
be
ready
to
entertain
you
.
Whereupon
he
took
his
leave
,
promising
he
would
not
fail
to
be
with
them
.
Having
made
this
progress
in
his
business
,
he
went
and
gave
his
Camerades
an
account
thereof
,
and
appointed
them
to
wait
about
his
house
where
the
mony
was
.
He
undertook
to
keep
the
Company
in
play
,
while
they
should
do
their
work
,
which
they
would
not
be
long
about
,
having
all
the
implements
requisite
for
men
of
their
profession
.
The
Comedians
,
on
the
other
side
,
prepar'd
all
things
to
shew
him
such
a
trick
,
as
his
extravagance
deserv'd
,
getting
some
squibs
and
crackers
made
,
to
frighten
him
,
if
't
were
possible
,
out
of
the
little
wit
he
had
.
His
hour
being
come
,
he
went
to
his
house
who
had
invited
him
,
to
read
the
Seignoress
.
He
who
expected
him
had
provided
what
he
thought
requisite
to
make
sport
enough
that
night
for
the
whole
Company
.
The
chief
Comedian
,
seeing
they
were
all
met
,
told
them
that
the
Room
was
too
narrow
for
the
whole
Company
,
and
that
they
were
better
to
appoint
their
meeting
at
the
Theatre
,
where
they
should
not
be
disturb'd
.
The
feign'd
Poet
was
glad
to
hear
the
proposition
,
and
seconded
it
,
inasmuch
as
,
the
coast
being
clear
,
his
Camerades
might
the
more
easily
dispatch
their
business
.
It
happen'd
according
to
his
wishes
,
for
the
Mistress
of
the
house
,
who
had
heard
her
husband
and
others
of
the
Company
talk
of
the
extravagant
Poet
,
and
how
they
intended
to
serve
him
,
would
needs
see
the
sport
,
and
lest
it
might
be
late
ere
they
return'd
home
,
she
took
all
the
servants
,
both
men
and
maids
,
along
with
her
;
so
that
the
Garrison
was
clearly
dismantled
.
They
brought
the
Poet
to
the
Theatre
with
a
great
deal
of
ceremony
,
and
plac'd
him
at
the
end
of
a
Table
,
on
which
there
were
two
candles
.
Having
taken
the
Comedy
out
of
his
pocket
,
and
the
Company
silently
expecting
,
after
two
or
three
grave
Hems
,
he
began
to
read
thus
.
THE
SEIGNORESS
OF
BISCAY
,
A
NEW
COMEDY
.
Written
by
Dominico
Joancho
,
Batchelor
of
Divinity
,
born
at
Ordugna
in
the
Seignory
of
Biscay
.
The
Actors
Names
.
-
DON
OCHOA
,
A
young
Cavalier
.
-
DON
GARNICA
,
A
young
Cavalier
.
-
GOZENEGO
,
Tom-Ladle
,
the
Fool
in
the
Play
.
Hold
a
little
,
I
pray
,
Sir
,
says
the
principal
Comedian
,
why
do
you
give
the
Fool
two
names
,
would
not
one
serve
?
No
,
Sir
,
says
the
Poet
;
for
the
former
is
his
name
,
as
he
is
a
Christian
,
or
his
Christian
name
,
and
the
other
he
hath
in
relation
to
the
part
he
acts
.
For
as
the
Ladle
stirs
the
meat
which
is
in
the
Pot
,
so
he
is
the
person
which
tumbles
,
and
turns
upside
down
the
several
parts
of
the
Plot
,
and
shuffles
all
the
contrivances
and
intrigues
of
the
Comedy
.
You
shall
find
nothing
but
I
can
give
you
a
very
good
reason
for
it
,
and
therefore
you
may
spare
your self
the
trouble
of
raising
any
further
objections
.
Excellent
!
I
am
satisfi'd
,
Sir
,
says
the
other
,
pray
go
on
.
-
GRACE
GELINDA
,
Seignoress
of
Biscay
,
a
name
very
pertinent
to
signifie
the
Graces
that
are
in
her
.
-
-
GARIBAYA
-
GAMBOINA
Her
Waiting-woman
.
-
L'ORDOVY
,
an
old
Gentleman-Usher
belonging
to
the
Seignoress
.
-
ARANELBIA
,
Steward
to
the
Seignoress
.
-
A
SMITH'S
FORGE
.
Your
patience
,
a
little
,
Sir
,
says
the
principal
Comedian
,
is
that
Forge
to
speak
any
thing
in
the
Play
?
No
,
Sir
,
says
the
Poet
;
but
there
is
a
necessity
of
it
in
this
Piece
,
in
regard
there
is
frequent
mention
made
of
it
,
as
being
the
most
considerable
revenue
of
our
Country
,
that
is
,
of
her
Highness
the
Seignoress
.
Very
well
,
very
well
,
replies
the
other
;
but
however
put
it
not
among
the
Actors
.
That
's
easily
mended
,
says
the
Batchelor
.
-
Item
,
THIRTEEN
VESSELS
,
belonging
to
the
Seignoress
.
How
Thirteen
!
says
the
Comedian
,
can
they
not
be
reduc'd
to
lesser
number
?
No
,
Sir
,
says
the
Poet
,
because
they
represent
Thirteen
of
the
most
eminent
Families
of
Biscay
,
and
every
one
,
in
the
name
of
its
whole
House
,
hath
a
Voice
in
the
General
Assembly
,
to
consent
to
the
marriage
of
the
Seignoress
;
and
if
there
were
any
one
wanting
,
't
would
argue
a
certain
contempt
of
an
illustrious
Family
.
I
am
very
punctual
and
exact
,
as
to
what
concerns
the
History
of
Biscay
,
and
I
would
not
miss
an
atome
of
it
.
But
it
will
be
hard
for
us
to
represent
it
,
says
the
Comedian
,
for
we
are
not
so
many
Actors
in
our
whole
Company
.
Take
some
at
hire
out
of
some
other
,
replies
the
Poet
,
for
upon
such
an
accompt
as
this
is
you
must
spare
for
no
cost
.
Have
you
any
more
Actors
,
says
the
Comedian
?
Yes
,
replies
the
Poet.
-
SEVEN
YOVNG
MAIDS
,
between
15
and
20
years
of
age
,
who
dance
a
Ball
,
before
their
Mistress
,
at
her
enrrance
into
Biscay
.
Well
,
Sir
,
says
the
Comedian
,
I
have
seen
many
Comedies
in
my
time
,
but
never
any
that
had
such
extraordinary
particulars
as
yours
.
How
do
you
imagine
I
should
find
seven
young
Maids
,
especially
so
near
the
Court
?
Sir
,
says
the
Poet
,
no
profit
comes
in
without
charge
;
but
you
need
not
be
so
scrupulous
,
they
will
not
be
search'd
,
to
try
,
whether
they
really
be
such
or
not
,
though
't
were
more
convenient
they
should
.
Nay
there
is
yet
another
expedient
,
which
is
,
to
have
them
in
Perspective
,
or
in
Scenes
,
and
artificially
mov'd
to
dance
the
Ball
;
but
to
do
well
,
they
should
be
alive
.
There
you
give
us
some
comfort
,
says
the
Comedian
,
for
we
may
make
up
that
number
out
of
our
Company
,
if
those
will
serve
who
appear
not
upon
the
Stage
:
but
I
shall
not
undertake
they
will
be
such
as
you
would
have
them
.
Now
,
Sir
,
if
you
please
,
let
's
have
a
little
of
your
way
in
carrying
on
the
design
of
this
Piece
.
In
the
first
Scene
,
said
he
,
comes
out
Don
Ochoa
,
Sutor
to
the
Seignoress
,
and
Gozenego
,
Tom-Ladle
,
his
man
,
in
country
cloaths
,
with
each
of
them
a
good
thick
riding
hood
,
or
Capouche
,
and
an
Indian
Umbrello
.
How
,
says
the
Comedian
,
what
need
is
there
of
the
Parasol
,
or
Umbrello
,
if
they
have
Capouches
?
I
see
,
says
the
Poet
,
you
are
not
much
acquainted
with
the
temperature
of
the
climate
of
Biscay
.
In
summer
,
Sir
,
there
are
such
furious
deluges
of
waters
,
as
if
the
sky
were
broken
to
pieces
;
presently
after
,
there
comes
such
a
scorching
Sun
,
as
will
set
a
man's
brains
a
boiling
in
his
head
.
I
cannot
disprove
you
,
says
the
Comedian
;
pray
go
on
.
He
then
began
to
read
the
verses
,
but
after
such
a
ridiculous
and
extravagant
manner
,
that
when
he
had
gone
over
about
an
hundred
of
them
,
the
Players
perceiving
that
the
Piece
contain'd
many
sheets
,
close
written
,
and
tir'd
with
the
impertinence
of
what
they
had
already
heard
,
and
withall
that
they
had
spent
most
part
of
the
night
so
trivially
,
interrupted
the
Reciter
with
a
kind
of
a
buzzing
noise
.
That
was
the
Cue
which
the
feign'd
Batchelor
expected
,
yet
seeming
to
be
angry
at
it
,
he
clapp'd
both
hands
on
the
Table
with
such
violence
,
that
he
shook
the
two
Candlesticks
,
and
cri'd
out
with
a
loud
voice
,
Tacete
,
Tacete
.
But
the
Players
and
others
that
were
present
,
not
understanding
the
Latine
,
the
noise
increas'd
,
the
table
was
over-turn'd
,
and
the
Candles
were
put
out
,
and
then
all
retiring
from
him
,
they
set
fire
to
the
train
they
had
laid
for
the
poor
Poet.
He
found
himself
encompass'd
by
a
number
of
squibs
and
crackers
,
and
long
bags
full
of
sand
like
snakes
,
all
in
open
hostility
against
him
.
He
was
in
a
very
sad
pickle
,
for
there
was
nothing
but
confusion
on
the
Theatre
,
besides
the
flames
of
rosin
which
came
up
from
beneath
the
Stage
,
and
were
ready
to
choke
him
,
insomuch
that
to
cure
him
of
all
future
thoughts
of
Poetry
,
there
needed
onely
a
gentle
tossing
in
a
blanket
.
He
seem'd
to
take
it
very
unkindly
,
that
he
had
been
brought
thither
,
to
receive
such
an
affront
,
for
besides
the
danger
his
tinder
Cloak
and
Cassock
had
been
in
of
a
general
conflagration
,
he
lost
the
Comedy
,
than
whichthere
could
not
a
greater
loss
happen
to
him
.
The
Epilogue
of
the
Piece
was
,
that
Jaimo's
companions
,
while
the
Company
was
thus
entertain'd
at
the
Theatre
,
had
found
a
way
into
the
Comedian's
house
,
and
plaid
the
Ferrets
in
all
the
rooms
,
and
examin'd
the
chests
and
trunks
that
stood
in
their
way
,
in
one
whereof
they
found
the
mony
they
look'd
for
,
which
they
cleaverly
carried
to
Jaimo's
house
,
where
it
was
very
fairly
divided
;
and
in
regard
Jaimo's
wife
had
been
the
inventress
of
the
Plot
,
she
had
an
equal
share
with
those
who
had
been
emploi'd
in
the
execution
of
it
.
The
next
day
,
the
Comedian
going
to
take
up
certain
stuffs
for
cloaths
,
was
not
a
little
astonish'd
to
find
the
chest
open
,
and
the
mony
fled
.
He
was
for
a
while
at
such
a
loss
,
that
he
knew
not
where
he
was
.
At
last
,
he
ask'd
his
wife
who
had
been
in
the
house
?
whereto
she
could
give
him
no
account
at
all
.
He
sent
people
to
abroad
to
search
,
and
acquainted
the
Magistrate
with
what
had
happen'd
.
The
nearest
streets
to
the
house
were
visited
,
but
to
no
purpose
.
The
poor
Comedian
went
to
relate
his
misfortune
to
the
Grandee
,
of
whom
he
had
receiv'd
that
present
.
But
he
thinking
it
a
cheat
of
the
Comedians
,
would
not
believe
him
.
He
fell
sick
out
of
pure
discontent
,
and
kept
his
bed
,
and
then
began
to
doubt
it
was
a
trick
put
upon
him
by
that
feign'd
Poet
,
for
whom
he
immediately
caus'd
a
search
to
be
made
;
but
he
could
never
be
found
,
for
he
and
his
Companions
had
taken
a
course
for
that
.
These
things
being
represented
to
the
Lord
,
who
had
bestow'd
the
mony
on
them
,
he
was
so
generous
as
to
supply
them
with
the
like
sum
.
In
the
mean
time
,
the
Officers
were
still
upon
duty
,
to
see
,
whether
,
searching
for
the
Poet
,
they
should
meet
with
the
Author
of
the
Robbery
.
The
indispos'd
Comedian
recover'd
upon
the
sight
of
the
Mony
's
return
into
the
chest
.
Jaimo
and
his
Companions
had
a
consultation
how
they
might
trapan
the
Comedian
of
that
recrute
,
but
when
it
was
propos'd
to
Rufina
,
who
had
always
a
voice
in
the
Conclave
,
't
was
immediately
quash'd
,
and
she
prevail'd
with
her
Husband
to
leave
Madrid
,
since
they
had
mony
enough
to
retire
else-where
,
and
drive
some
trade
therewith
.
Jaimo
took
her
advice
,
and
so
leaving
Madrid
,
they
went
into
Arragon
,
and
planted
themselves
at
Saragossa
,
the
Metropolis
of
that
Kingdom
.
They
took
a
House
,
and
kept
a
Silk-shop
,
spending
some
time
in
that
employment
.
What
designs
they
were
engag'd
in
during
their
abode
their
,
and
upon
what
account
they
were
forc'd
to
remove
thence
shall
be
the
subject
of
a
Second
Part
of
this
work
;
wherein
the
Reader
shall
find
Rufina
,
improv'd
in
subtilty
by
experience
,
contriving
and
compassing
cheats
much
more
pleasant
and
more
ingenious
,
than
any
she
hath
been
hitherto
concern'd
in
,
with
a
little
assistance
from
her
Husband
Don
Jaimo
.
FINIS
.