| Back | "If I had been in the service of some grandee of Spain or personage of distinction," replied the youth, "I should have been safe to get it; for that is the advantage of serving good masters, that out of the servants' hall men come to be ancients or captains, or get a good pension. But I, to my misfortune, always served place-hunters and adventurers, whose keep and wages were so miserable and scanty that half went in paying for the starching of one's collars; it would be a miracle indeed if a page volunteer ever got anything like a reasonable bounty." |
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| Front | -Si yo hubiera servido a algún grande de España, o algún principal personaje -respondió el mozo-, a buen seguro que yo la llevara, que eso tiene el servir a los buenos: que del tinelo suelen salir a ser alférez o capitanes, o con algún buen entretenimiento; pero yo, desventurado, serví siempre a catarriberas y a gente advenediza, de ración y quitación tan mísera y atenuada, que en pagar el almidonar un cuello se consumía la mitad della; y sería tenido a milagro que un paje aventurero alcanzase alguna siquiera razonable ventura. |
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