| Back | Montesinos told me that all those forming the procession were the attendants of Durandarte and Belerma, who were enchanted there with their master and mistress, and that the last, she who carried the heart in the cloth, was the lady Belerma, who, with her damsels, four days in the week went in procession singing, or rather weeping, dirges over the body and miserable heart of his cousin; and that if she appeared to me somewhat ill-favoured or not so beautiful as fame reported her, it was because of the bad nights and worse days that she passed in that enchantment, as I could see by the great dark circles round her eyes, and her sickly complexion; 'her sallowness, and the rings round her eyes,' said he, 'are not caused by the periodical ailment usual with women, for it is many months and even years since she has had any, but by the grief her own heart suffers because of that which she holds in her hand perpetually, and which recalls and brings back to her memory the sad fate of her lost lover; were it not for this, hardly would the great Dulcinea del Toboso, so celebrated in all these parts, and even in the world, come up to her for beauty, grace, and gaiety.' |
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| Front | Díjome Montesinos como toda aquella gente de la procesión eran sirvientes de Durandarte y de Belerma, que allí con sus dos señores estaban encantados, y que la última, que traía el corazón entre el lienzo y en las manos, era la señora Belerma, la cual con sus doncellas cuatro días en la semana hacían aquella procesión y cantaban, o, por mejor decir, lloraban endechas sobre el cuerpo y sobre el lastimado corazón de su primo; y que si me había parecido algo fea, o no tan hermosa como tenía la fama, era la causa las malas noches y peores días que en aquel encantamento pasaba, como lo podía ver en sus grandes ojeras y en su color quebradiza. ''Y no toma ocasión su amarillez y sus ojeras de estar con el mal mensil, ordinario en las mujeres, porque ha muchos meses, y aun años, que no le tiene ni asoma por sus puertas, sino del dolor que siente su corazón por el que de contino tiene en las manos, que le renueva y trae a la memoria la desgracia de su mal logrado amante; que si esto no fuera, apenas la igualara en hermosura, donaire y brío la gran Dulcinea del Toboso, tan celebrada en todos estos contornos, y aun en todo el mundo''. |
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