| Back | "Ah!" exclaimed the Distressed One at this, "may all the stars of the celestial regions look down upon your greatness with benign eyes, valiant knight, and shed every prosperity and valour upon your heart, that it may be the shield and safeguard of the abused and downtrodden race of duennas, detested by apothecaries, sneered at by squires, and made game of by pages. Ill betide the jade that in the flower of her youth would not sooner become a nun than a duenna! |
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| Front | -¡Ay! -dijo a esta sazón la Dolorida-, con benignos ojos miren a vuestra grandeza, valeroso caballero, todas las estrellas de las regiones celestes, e infundan en vuestro ánimo toda prosperidad y valentía para ser escudo y amparo del vituperoso y abatido género dueñesco, abominado de boticarios, murmurado de escuderos y socaliñado de pajes; que mal haya la bellaca que en la flor de su edad no se metió primero a ser monja que a dueña. |
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