| Back | "I, a poor young creature alone, ill versed among my people in cases such as this, began, I know not how, to think all these lying protestations true, though without being moved by his sighs and tears to anything more than pure compassion; and so, as the first feeling of bewilderment passed away, and I began in some degree to recover myself, I said to him with more courage than I thought I could have possessed, 'If, as I am now in your arms, senor, I were in the claws of a fierce lion, and my deliverance could be procured by doing or saying anything to the prejudice of my honour, it would no more be in my power to do it or say it, than it would be possible that what was should not have been; so then, if you hold my body clasped in your arms, I hold my soul secured by virtuous intentions, very different from yours, as you will see if you attempt to carry them into effect by force. |
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| Front | Yo, pobrecilla, sola entre los míos, mal ejercitada en casos semejantes, comencé, no sé en qué modo, a tener por verdaderas tantas falsedades, pero no de suerte que me moviesen a compasión menos que buena sus lágrimas y suspiros. »Y así, pasándoseme aquel sobresalto primero, torné algún tanto a cobrar mis perdidos espíritus, y con más ánimo del que pensé que pudiera tener, le dije: ''Si como estoy, señor, en tus brazos, estuviera entre los de un león fiero y el librarme dellos se me asegurara con que hiciera, o dijera, cosa que fuera en perjuicio de mi honestidad, así fuera posible hacella o decilla como es posible dejar de haber sido lo que fue. Así que, si tú tienes ceñido mi cuerpo con tus brazos, yo tengo atada mi alma con mis buenos deseos, que son tan diferentes de los tuyos como lo verás si con hacerme fuerza quisieres pasar adelante en ellos. |
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