| Back | One night, as I was in my chamber with no other companion than a damsel who waited on me, with the doors carefully locked lest my honour should be imperilled through any carelessness, I know not nor can conceive how it happened, but, with all this seclusion and these precautions, and in the solitude and silence of my retirement, I found him standing before me, a vision that so astounded me that it deprived my eyes of sight, and my tongue of speech. I had no power to utter a cry, nor, I think, did he give me time to utter one, as he immediately approached me, and taking me in his arms (for, overwhelmed as I was, I was powerless, I say, to help myself), he began to make such professions to me that I know not how falsehood could have had the power of dressing them up to seem so like truth; and the traitor contrived that his tears should vouch for his words, and his sighs for his sincerity. |
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| Front | Y fue que una noche, estando yo en mi aposento con sola la compañía de una doncella que me servía, teniendo bien cerradas las puertas, por temor que, por descuido, mi honestidad no se viese en peligro, sin saber ni imaginar cómo, en medio destos recatos y prevenciones, y en la soledad deste silencio y encierro, me le hallé delante, cuya vista me turbó de manera que me quitó la de mis ojos y me enmudeció la lengua; y así, no fui poderosa de dar voces, ni aun él creo que me las dejara dar, porque luego se llegó a mí, y, tomándome entre sus brazos (porque yo, como digo, no tuve fuerzas para defenderme, según estaba turbada), comenzó a decirme tales razones, que no sé cómo es posible que tenga tanta habilidad la mentira que las sepa componer de modo que parezcan tan verdaderas. Hacía el traidor que sus lágrimas acreditasen sus palabras y los suspiros su intención. |
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