| Back | "Would that found myself, lovely and exalted lady, in a position to repay such a favour as that which you, by the sight of your great beauty, have granted me; but fortune, which is never weary of persecuting the good, has chosen to place me upon this bed, where I lie so bruised and broken that though my inclination would gladly comply with yours it is impossible; besides, to this impossibility another yet greater is to be added, which is the faith that I have pledged to the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, sole lady of my most secret thoughts; and were it not that this stood in the way I should not be so insensible a knight as to miss the happy opportunity which your great goodness has offered me." |
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| Front | -Quisiera hallarme en términos, fermosa y alta señora, de poder pagar tamaña merced como la que con la vista de vuestra gran fermosura me habedes fecho, pero ha querido la fortuna, que no se cansa de perseguir a los buenos, ponerme en este lecho, donde yago tan molido y quebrantado que, aunque de mi voluntad quisiera satisfacer a la vuestra, fuera imposible. Y más, que se añade a esta imposibilidad otra mayor, que es la prometida fe que tengo dada a la sin par Dulcinea del Toboso, única señora de mis más escondidos pensamientos; que si esto no hubiera de por medio, no fuera yo tan sandio caballero que dejara pasar en blanco la venturosa ocasión en que vuestra gran bondad me ha puesto. |
Tags: 250spn, spn
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