| Back | "A discerning friend of mine," said Don Quixote, "was of opinion that no one ought to waste labour in glossing verses; and the reason he gave was that the gloss can never come up to the text, and that often or most frequently it wanders away from the meaning and purpose aimed at in the glossed lines; and besides, that the laws of the gloss were too strict, as they did not allow interrogations, nor 'said he,' nor 'I say,' nor turning verbs into nouns, or altering the construction, not to speak of other restrictions and limitations that fetter gloss-writers, as you no doubt know." |
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| Front | -Un amigo y discreto -respondió don Quijote- era de parecer que no se había de cansar nadie en glosar versos; y la razón, decía él, era que jamás la glosa podía llegar al texto, y que muchas o las más veces iba la glosa fuera de la intención y propósito de lo que pedía lo que se glosaba; y más, que las leyes de la glosa eran demasiadamente estrechas: que no sufrían interrogantes, ni dijo, ni diré, ni hacer nombres de verbos, ni mudar el sentido, con otras ataduras y estrechezas con que van atados los que glosan, como vuestra merced debe de saber. |
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