| Back | The "Lay of Chrysostom" met with the approbation of the listeners, though the reader said it did not seem to him to agree with what he had heard of Marcela's reserve and propriety, for Chrysostom complained in it of jealousy, suspicion, and absence, all to the prejudice of the good name and fame of Marcela; to which Ambrosio replied as one who knew well his friend's most secret thoughts, "Senor, to remove that doubt I should tell you that when the unhappy man wrote this lay he was away from Marcela, from whom he had voluntarily separated himself, to try if absence would act with him as it is wont; and as everything distresses and every fear haunts the banished lover, so imaginary jealousies and suspicions, dreaded as if they were true, tormented Chrysostom; and thus the truth of what report declares of the virtue of Marcela remains unshaken, and with her envy itself should not and cannot find any fault save that of being cruel, somewhat haughty, and very scornful." |
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| Front | Bien les pareció, a los que escuchado habían, la canción de Grisóstomo, puesto que el que la leyó dijo que no le parecía que conformaba con la relación que él había oído del recato y bondad de Marcela, porque en ella se quejaba Grisóstomo de celos, sospechas y de ausencia, todo en perjuicio del buen crédito y buena fama de Marcela. A lo cual respondió Ambrosio, como aquel que sabía bien los más escondidos pensamientos de su amigo: -Para que, señor, os satisfagáis desa duda, es bien que sepáis que cuando este desdichado escribió esta canción estaba ausente de Marcela, de quien él se había ausentado por su voluntad, por ver si usaba con él la ausencia de sus ordinarios fueros. |
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