| Back | The queen, then, being dead, and not in a swoon, we buried her; and hardly had we covered her with earth, hardly had we said our last farewells, when, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymis? over the queen's grave there appeared, mounted upon a wooden horse, the giant Malambruno, Maguncia's first cousin, who besides being cruel is an enchanter; and he, to revenge the death of his cousin, punish the audacity of Don Clavijo, and in wrath at the contumacy of Antonomasia, left them both enchanted by his art on the grave itself; she being changed into an ape of brass, and he into a horrible crocodile of some unknown metal; while between the two there stands a pillar, also of metal, with certain characters in the Syriac language inscribed upon it, which, being translated into Kandian, and now into Castilian, contain the following sentence: 'These two rash lovers shall not recover their former shape until the valiant Manchegan comes to do battle with me in single combat; for the Fates reserve this unexampled adventure for his mighty valour alone.' |
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| Front | «Muerta, pues, la reina, y no desmayada, la enterramos; y, apenas la cubrimos con la tierra y apenas le dimos el último vale, cuando, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymis?, puesto sobre un caballo de madera, pareció encima de la sepultura de la reina el gigante Malambruno, primo cormano de Maguncia, que junto con ser cruel era encantador, el cual con sus artes, en venganza de la muerte de su cormana, y por castigo del atrevimiento de don Clavijo, y por despecho de la demasía de Antonomasia, los dejó encantados sobre la mesma sepultura: a ella, convertida en una jimia de bronce, y a él, en un espantoso cocodrilo de un metal no conocido, y entre los dos está un padrón, asimismo de metal, y en él escritas en lengua siríaca unas letras que, habiéndose declarado en la candayesca, y ahora en la castellana, encierran esta sentencia: "No cobrarán su primera forma estos dos atrevidos amantes hasta que el valeroso manchego venga conmigo a las manos en singular batalla, que para solo su gran valor guardan los hados esta nunca vista aventura". |
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