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+Project Gutenberg's Don Francisco de Quevedo, by Eulogio Florentino Sanz
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+Title: Don Francisco de Quevedo
+ Drama en Cuatro Actos
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+Author: Eulogio Florentino Sanz
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+Editor: R. Selden Rose
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+Release Date: November 17, 2006 [EBook #19847]
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+Language: Spanish
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+ DON FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO
+
+
+ DRAMA EN CUATRO ACTOS
+
+ POR
+
+ EULOGIO FLORENTINO SANZ
+
+ EDITED BY R. SELDEN ROSE, PH.D.
+
+ INSTRUCTOR IN SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
+
+ GINN AND COMPANY
+ BOSTON--NEW YORK--CHICAGO--LONDON
+ ATLANTA--DALLAS--COLUMBUS--SAN FRANCISCO
+ COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY R. SELDEN ROSE
+ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+ =The Athenæum Press=
+ GINN AND COMPANY--PROPRIETORS--BOSTON--U.S.A.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+
+
+ PREFACE
+
+
+The features of "Don Francisco de Quevedo" that led to its selection as
+a text for the use of students of the second or even first year are its
+historical background, its ease and purity of style, and the sustained
+interest of the plot. As regards the chief character, Quevedo, he is in
+a large measure the embodiment of the whole literary spirit of the first
+half of the seventeenth century and at the same time the champion of
+political reform. The play is written in Castilian of such simplicity
+that it presents almost no syntactical difficulties, and at the same
+time embodies a useful vocabulary. The development of the plot, the
+struggle between Olivares and Quevedo, is thoroughly logical and is
+aided by scenes so intensely dramatic that they hold the interest of the
+reader at all times. Some of these scenes, so characteristic of even the
+best plays of the Romantic School, to-day seem to verge on the
+melodramatic. For this reason the student should be reminded that the
+heroic thunder of this kind of play was most acceptable to the
+theater-goers of the middle of the last century. A sense of humor, then,
+should temper any critical attitude on the part of those who may be
+inclined to take our play's shortcomings or exaggerations too seriously.
+
+The fact that Florentino Sanz is comparatively unknown will justify the
+detailed Biographical Sketch.
+
+The text is a careful reproduction of that of the first edition, Madrid,
+1848, except, of course, for frequent corrections in punctuation. Only
+the important stage directions have been retained; others that in great
+profusion specify the facial expression and tone of voice of the actors
+have been rejected in many places as more cumbersome than useful.
+
+R.S.R.
+
+
+
+
+ CONTENTS
+
+
+EULOGIO FLORENTINO SANZ
+HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
+VERSIFICATION
+DON FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO
+NOTES
+VOCABULARY
+
+
+
+
+ EULOGIO FLORENTINO SANZ
+
+ BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
+
+
+The name of Eulogio Florentino Sanz is little known outside of Spain,
+where for more than seventy years it has been closely linked with his
+chief dramatic achievement, "Don Francisco de Quevedo," and with his
+translations from Heine. Now and then the plea that something be done
+toward bringing out an edition of his works has found expression but met
+with no response. To read his scattered verses it is necessary to search
+the pages of that wilderness of papers, dailies, weeklies, monthlies,
+and annuals, which appeared in Madrid between 1840 and 1870. Though we
+are told that he wrote much, it is none the less true that he published
+next to nothing. In 1848, at the age of twenty-seven he was freely
+spoken of as one of the most promising of his generation of poets and
+dramatists. Vanity and indolence at maturity prevented his fulfilling
+the promise.
+
+His boyhood was spent in Arévalo in the province of Ávila, where he was
+born March 11, 1821. The village priest taught him Latin, and later he
+may have been a student at the University of Valladolid. Of the years
+that passed before he came to Madrid we know little besides a few
+anecdotes. According to one of these Sanz paid youthful court to the
+daughter of a glazier whose ruin was threatened by lack of business. The
+daughter told young Florentino of her father's difficulties in the
+course of an evening interview, whereupon the ambitious lover quickly
+organized a band of followers and broke all the windows in Arévalo.
+
+Early in February of 1843 he was in Madrid, where he began to write for
+the newspapers. Two years later a few poems published in the _Semanario
+Pintoresco_, _El Heraldo_, and _La Risa_ won him some recognition. He
+now identified himself with the group of romantic poets who held their
+meetings in the famous Café del Príncipe. His sonnet "La Discordia,"
+published in the _Semanario Pintoresco_, February, 1843, furnishes
+indisputable evidence of his romantic tendencies. In it a waning moon,
+fratricide, corpses, "infernal sonrisa," and an agonized mother provide
+all the thrills of romantic horror; but it may be wiser to pass over in
+silence such outbursts as this.
+
+As a member of a circle which gathered in the Café del Recreo (1846) he
+lived in the very thick of romanticism. Its meetings are thus described:
+
+ At that time there existed in Madrid a club of literary fledglings.
+ The majority of the young men who ten years later had won
+ conspicuous places in the world of letters gathered there without
+ knowing exactly why. The nucleus at the Café del Recreo had been
+ formed by no one, nobody was formally presented, no one of our
+ number had been a friend or schoolmate of any one of the others;
+ the gathering was there _because it was there_, it existed _because
+ it existed_. The company included besides Sanz himself the poets
+ Mariano Cazurro, Antonio Trueba, Ventura Ruiz Aguilera, Antonio
+ Hurtado, José Albuerne, Antonio Arnao, the journalist Eduardo
+ Asquerino, the statesman Cánovas, and the dramatist Fernández y
+ González.--José de Castro y Serrano, _Prólogo_ (pp. ix-x) to "Obras
+ de Francisco Zea," Madrid, 1858.
+
+The movements and activities of Sanz in the literary world began to be
+chronicled in such papers as the _Fandango_, published by Wencelao
+Ayguals de Izco and Francisco Villegas. They speak of him as "our friend
+and collaborator." From them we learn that he was occupied in writing
+_semblanzas_, or portraits, of the most conspicuous literary lights of
+the hour. Though these _semblanzas_ seem to have circulated in
+manuscript, they never were printed. Eduardo de Lustoñó declared[1]
+that Sanz was always a presumptuous person and particularly so in 1845.
+Lustoñó wrote a squib, stupid enough to be sure, in which he implies
+that the purpose of the _semblanzas_ was to ridicule the pedants.
+Lustoñó enrolled him as private soldier in what he called his "Regiment
+of Men of Letters," but it was an unconscious tribute to the ability of
+Sanz to admit him even as a private in a regiment whose officers were:
+Colonel, Quintana; Majors, Hartzenbusch, Tassara; Captains, Bretón,
+Rivas; Lieutenants, Campoamor, Mesonero Romanos, and Frías,--all of whom
+have won enduring fame.
+
+On the night of February 1, 1848, "Don Francisco de Quevedo" was
+presented in the Teatro del Príncipe. The distinguished actor and poet
+Don Julian Romea chose the occasion for a benefit performance. The play
+was an instant success. The number of the _Semanario Pintoresco_ which
+followed the first performance printed a flattering review:
+
+ The drama "Don Francisco de Quevedo," presented at the Príncipe for
+ the benefit of Don Julian Romea, has won for its author, Don
+ Eulogio Florentino Sanz, a place of distinction among our
+ dramatists. Success in portraying the personage from whom the piece
+ takes its name, resourceful stagecraft, daring situations, and a
+ versification now serious, now gay, frolicsome or sorrowful, but
+ always agreeable, facile, and correct, these are the distinguishing
+ features of the play with which Señor Sanz has made himself known
+ to the theater-going public. Don Julian Romea gave an able
+ interpretation of the part of Don Francisco de Quevedo, Señora Díaz
+ was excellent as the Infanta Margarita. The rest of the cast
+ contributed ably to the success of the drama.
+
+This notice conveys some idea of the striking enthusiasm with which the
+piece was received.
+
+In keeping with his literary predilections Sanz had already identified
+himself politically with the progressive liberal party.
+
+[Footnote 1: _Imparcial de Madrid_, December 3, 1901.]
+
+In the years immediately preceding the overthrow of the Conservatives
+(1845) Sanz gave his services to the progressive liberal cause. In 1849
+he was editor of _La Patria_, whose first number appeared on January 2.
+It announced a policy of political moderation, but its real purpose was
+the most strenuous opposition to the government of the reactionary
+conservatives. Sanz was generally believed to be editor-in-chief.
+Suddenly on the fourth of January he resigned[2] with no explanation
+whatsoever to the subscribers. A little later he appeared on the staff
+of _La Víbora, periódico venenoso redactado por los peores literatos de
+España, bajo la dirección de nadie_ ("The Viper, a venomous paper,
+edited by the worst scribblers in Spain, under the management of
+nobody"). The censorship was as crushing as in the days of Larra. Later,
+in September, _La Patria_ announced another periodical, _La Sátira_,
+adding that it was to be under the direction of the editors of the
+short-lived _Víbora_. This second attempt also met with disaster. Again
+in June of 1851 Sanz resigned from another paper, _El Mundo Nuevo_.
+
+[Footnote 2: Notices of the appearance of this paper and of Sanz's
+resignation will be found in _La Guía_ of January 3 and 4, 1849.]
+
+In 1854 the tide turned. The revolution of July found him writing his
+second play, "Los Achaques de la Vejez."[3] The conclusion of the last
+act had to be postponed while Sanz was taking part in the popular rising
+which he had so earnestly sought. While he was waiting for his share of
+the rewards of victory the play was produced at the Príncipe on the
+evening of October 13. On the fourteenth there appeared in _La Iberia_
+the following notice, written probably by his devoted friend Pedro Calvo
+Asensio:
+
+ _Los Achaques de la Vejez_. This notable comedy by the gifted and
+ well-known author Don Eulogio Florentino Sanz was played
+
+[Footnote 3: The original manuscript of this play is preserved in the
+Biblioteca Nacional at Madrid. At the end of Act I appears the date
+Junio 13, 1854. At the end of the second Julio 5, 1854, and on the last
+sheet Setiembre 25, 1854.]
+
+ last night with brilliant success. At the end of the second act the
+ author was called upon the stage, and at the end of the play the
+ enthusiasm of the audience grew to such extraordinary proportions
+ that Sr. Sanz was again called upon to appear. However, we were
+ denied the satisfaction of seeing him, as he had left the theater.
+ The actors also were called before the curtain amidst tumultuous
+ applause as a just reward for their signal success in the
+ presentation of the play. The audience was as we had expected,
+ large and select. Our conviction that the management may look
+ forward to well-filled houses gives us great satisfaction.
+
+The writing of this play was in a measure Sanz's answer to the challenge
+of his enemies and detractors to repeat the success of "Don Francisco de
+Quevedo." By this second triumph his fame and reputation were firmly
+established. This time the theme is a domestic one developed with even
+greater skill than that displayed in the earlier play. As might be
+expected, Act I, scene iv, contains a pessimistic and cynical allusion
+to the tangled politics that preceded the revolution.
+
+By a royal order of November 11 Sanz was appointed secretary of the
+first class to the Spanish legation in Berlin.[4] This appointment he
+probably owed to the good offices of his friend Nicomedes Pastor Díaz.
+Sanz took possession of his new post on the ninth of January, 1855,
+after having made the journey from Madrid in the company of Gregorio
+Cruzada Villamil. In June he was granted four months' leave of absence
+on account of ill health due to the severity of the climate. In August
+he was made Commander of the Order of Charles III in recognition of his
+distinguished service. His final resignation from the post was received
+in November of 1856. He left Berlin for Madrid on February 1, 1857.
+
+[Footnote 4: All the papers relating to Sanz's diplomatic career are
+preserved in the Archivo del Ministerio del Estado. They were collected
+at the instance of his "widow," who desired that she be accorded a
+pension in keeping with the dignity of the posts held by her
+distinguished husband. The papers are filed under _Personal Español,
+Letra S, Año 1853. Número 159. Expediente relativo a Sanz, don Eulogio
+Florentino_.]
+
+His only poem surely written in Berlin is the "Epístola a Pedro."[5] It
+is a tender tribute to the memory of the poet Enrique Gil, who had died
+in Berlin ten years before. Its verses are among the most delicately
+beautiful that Sanz ever wrote. The poem opens with an expression of the
+longing which Sanz feels for his beloved Spain, and above all for
+Madrid:
+
+ Pues recuerda la patria, a los reflejos
+ de su distante sol, el desterrado
+ como recuerdan su niñez los viejos.
+
+[Footnote 5: Pedro is Don Pedro Calvo Asensio, the editor-in-chief of
+_La Iberia_, in which the poem first appeared. It was later republished
+in 1881 in the "Almanaque de _La Iberia_."]
+
+He stands before the grave of Enrique Gil and mourns for the poet who
+died unwept in a foreign land. In deep sincerity of feeling no other
+poem of Sanz approaches the "Epístola." Fortunately it has been given to
+the public both in Menéndez y Pelayo's "Cien Mejores Poesías" and in
+"The Oxford Book of Spanish Verse."
+
+These two years of residence in Berlin had a profound effect upon the
+temper of Sanz's later verse. It was only natural that his removal from
+the turmoil of life in Madrid, with its petty jealousies and quarrels,
+literary and political, should exercise a broadening and sobering
+influence upon his muse. After this date the flow of idle humorous verse
+ceased. Inspired chiefly by the exquisite delicacy of Heine's lyrics, he
+set himself to imitation and translation of his German model. It is not
+too much to say that all his published verse after this was deeply
+tinged with this side of Heine.
+
+In the spring of 1857 he was in Madrid again, enjoying his prestige as a
+poet, diplomat, and political writer. His presence at a gathering of
+literary men in May to do honor to the memory of the great Quintana was
+an event.[6] A week earlier his translation of fifteen of Heine's lyrics
+had appeared in the _Museo Universal_ under the caption "Poesía Alemana,
+Canciones de Enrique Heine." What a grateful contrast they furnish to
+the undisciplined bursts of romantic thunder that he was writing only a
+few years before! Sanz had been completely won over to the intense
+refinement of emotion and diction of Heine. From this time on, the
+expression of gentle melancholy and spiritual sensitiveness dominates
+the few poems that he published.
+
+[Footnote 6: Cf. _La Iberia_, May 22, 1857.]
+
+The brief taste of diplomatic life which he had had seems to have put an
+end to any really creative activity. A tribute to the memory of the
+young poet Francisco Zea, written in May, 1858,[7] contains what is
+really his farewell to a life of letters. Therein, after discussing the
+pessimistic statement of Larra that in Spain "No se lee porque no se
+escribe, y no se escribe porque no se lee," he declares that people in
+Spain are writing, but that no one is reading. It is not the fault of
+those who write, he continues, and waste the treasures of their youth in
+a fruitless struggle. In Spain one must write for pure love of letters,
+and unfortunately this is the most platonic of loves. There are few
+readers of literature in general, and of lyric poetry almost none. He
+resents the intrusion of the latter into the drama, where it is heard
+with pleasure by people, comfortably seated in stalls, who in the
+morning could not endure Fray Luis de León or Francisco de la Torre. His
+small stock of patience exhausted, Sanz turned to diplomatic life.
+
+[Footnote 7: "Obras En Verso y Prosa de Don Francisco Zea." Madrid, pp.
+552, 556.]
+
+On the eleventh of August of 1859 he was appointed Minister to the
+Empire of Brazil, and on the same day he was named representative in the
+Cortes. A month later he wrote to the Secretary of State to say that he
+must resign the post "for reasons which I have had the honor to submit
+verbally to your Excellency's consideration." At this time he seems to
+have gone into complete retirement, resisting the entreaties of
+theater-managers and actors to write again for the stage. In the next
+fourteen years he published only a half-dozen or more poems, although
+his name appeared in the list of _colaboradores_ of several papers,
+among them the _Gaceta Literaria_, _España Literaria_, and _La América_.
+Apparently his disillusionment was complete. In the _Versos a Amalia_
+(_La América_, Sept. 8, 1858) are these significant lines:
+
+ Sonreí de ambición ante la vana
+ Sombra de mi deseo;
+ Y al despuntar el sol de mi mañana,
+ Vi mi horizonte azul (¡que ya no veo!)...
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Yo fué persiguiendo la límpida estrella
+ Que allá en lontananza
+ Resplandece entre todas; aquella
+ Que deslumbra con locos reflejos,
+ Que siempre se sigue, que nunca se alcanza.
+ ¡Pérfida estrella de la esperanza
+ Que alumbra sólo, sólo de lejos!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Yo en la mar busqué la gloria
+ Y de allí torno sin ella.
+
+In September of 1872 Sanz was drawn from his retreat by an appointment
+to Tangier as Minister Plenipotentiary at a salary of 15,000 pesetas
+annually. He began his duties in December and continued at his post for
+exactly a year. Again he pleaded ill health and was granted two months'
+leave of absence. That he did not return immediately to Madrid is clear
+from his request of February 12 to be allowed to bring into Cadiz, duty
+free, a hundred bottles of wine. Early in January, 1873, his appointment
+to Tangier was confirmed by Amadeo. On the establishment of the
+republic in February Sanz tendered his resignation, but Castelar himself
+refused to accept it. In June he finally left his post at Tangier after
+having been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of
+Mexico. As usual he excused himself on the ground of ill health, and his
+resignation was accepted in the following September. Sanz certainly
+could not complain that his merits were unrecognized. In the decree
+appointing him to the post at Tangier his honors are mentioned as _Gran
+Cruz de la Real y Distinguida Orden de Carlos III, Orden Civil de Maria
+Victoria, Caballero de la Ínclita de San Juan de Jerusalem, ex Diputado
+a Cortes_.
+
+His movements from this time forward are extremely difficult to follow.
+In 1878 his name appears in the official list of members of the
+_Asociación de Escritores y Artistas_, and his domicile is given as 45
+Calle de Atocha. The men that knew him in the closing years of his life
+agree that he dragged out a miserable existence in the utmost poverty,
+dependent upon the generosity of his friends. They speak highly of his
+moral integrity, deploring at the same time the weakness of character
+which prevented his realizing the promise of his early years. He died
+April 29, 1881, and was buried in the cemetery of San Lorenzo.
+
+
+
+
+ HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
+
+
+When Philip IV became king of Spain in 1621 he inherited a kingdom whose
+resources had been recklessly wasted. His father, Philip III, had been
+ruled by the most inept of ministers, the Duke of Lerma. Great sums of
+money, wrung from the productive lower classes, had been spent to carry
+on a fruitless war in the Netherlands, to provide amusement for an idle,
+frivolous court, and to fill the pockets of the minister's creatures.
+Government was in the hands of a bureaucracy of parasites. The
+collective conscience of the governing class had withered and died. The
+office-holders in this bureaucracy had come to regard the acquisition of
+riches at the expense of the state as one of their official privileges.
+
+If Spain were to maintain her preëminent position as the greatest power
+in Europe the most radical economic reform was necessary. Stimulus must
+be given to the productive activity of the country by relief from
+oppressive taxation, and expenditure must be wisely restrained and
+administered.
+
+The situation demanded a man of exceptional keenness of vision, great
+energy, and absolute integrity. There were not lacking men who foresaw
+the disaster that threatened, men who still kept some of that energy and
+fearlessness that had made America a Spanish dependency, but such
+individuals were silenced as menaces rather than encouraged as helpers.
+In Philip himself the mental vigor and physical stamina of the Spanish
+Hapsburgs had been greatly diminished. The consanguineous marriages of
+his immediate ancestors had weakened the stock. There can be no doubt
+that he loved his people in his own pitiful, ineffectual way, but he
+was hopelessly weak; lacking in the ability and even the will to rule,
+he delegated government to Don Gaspar de Guzmán, Count of Olivares and
+soon to be the first Duke of San Lúcar.
+
+Here, on the other hand, was a man of undoubted energy and courage. Yet
+his weakness was his utter lack of vision and his inability to profit by
+the mistakes of his predecessors. He had many a lesson to learn in the
+failure of the reigns of Philip II and Philip III; he should have seen
+that the reason for the disasters of the former was the continuance of a
+hopeless war in the Netherlands for the sake of an ideal of religious
+unity which the progress of the sixteenth century had made impossible;
+above all he should have realized the economic folly of a system of
+taxation and industrial repression that was choking the nation.
+
+Olivares himself was to blame for the initial appearance in the
+machinery of the State of only a few vital weaknesses, for at the
+beginning of his administration many fatal tendencies were already at
+work. But because he failed to check those tendencies he must ever be
+the scapegoat. To be sure he signalized his arrival by a few months of
+rigid economy, but he did not cut deep enough. He soon realized the
+futility of saving where there was nothing to save. Then, either because
+he failed to see the source of the evil or because he lacked the
+constructive ability to attack it, he went to the extreme of lavish
+expenditure. As the situation grew more and more hopeless he temporized,
+striving to hide the internal decay beneath a gilded exterior of
+ostentatious wealth. As he plunged deeper his critics grew bolder, and
+to silence them his rule became more barbarously arbitrary.
+
+Moreover, he found himself face to face with the great Richelieu at the
+head of a rich and well-administered France. Under him France was to
+become organized and to extend her dominions to her natural physical
+boundaries--at the expense of Spain. Olivares ruled Spain from 1621
+until 1643, Richelieu ruled France from 1622 until 1642; it was a
+life-long duel between the two ministers. Richelieu laid the foundation
+for the greatness of Louis XIV, while Olivares made inevitable the
+abject impotence of Spain under Charles II.
+
+The culminating disasters began to arrive in 1640 with the rebellion of
+Catalonia. The determination of the Catalans in 1626 to grant Philip no
+more arbitrary taxes marks the beginning of the revolt that ended with
+the entire loss of Catalonia. Olivares could never forget its opposition
+to his will. While the Catalans in 1639 were bravely resisting the
+entrance of French troops into Roussillon, Santa Coloma, the viceroy of
+Olivares, made even more severe his policy of sternness and repression.
+The Catalans were to be driven against the French and to be made to
+understand by the application of brute force that the welfare of their
+particular province was of small importance beside the prosperity of the
+kingdom in general. The Spanish soldiers quartered upon them behaved
+with such lawlessness that in May of 1640 the population of Barcelona
+broke into open rebellion. Santa Coloma was cut down in his attempt to
+escape the consequences of his lack of diplomacy and tact. From
+Barcelona the revolt soon spread through the entire province. It has
+been said that the gentle measures of repression inaugurated by the new
+viceroy, the Duke of Cardona, particularly displeased Olivares, who saw
+at last what he believed to be his opportunity utterly to crush Catalan
+liberty. The answer of the Catalans was to throw themselves into the
+hands of the French and Richelieu, by seeking foreign aid against
+Castile.
+
+In September 1640 an army under the Marqués de los Vélez was sent north
+to straighten out the tangled affairs of Catalonia. At first he was
+successful, but in January 1641 he was beaten back from Barcelona itself
+after a bloody defeat at the hands of the local soldiery.
+
+To make sure of French aid the rebels offered their allegiance to Louis
+XIII of France, and the revolt was kept alive with French money and
+soldiers, while Philip's armies were invariably defeated.
+
+To complete our picture of the political situation we must turn for a
+moment to Portugal. There reluctant allegiance to the Spanish crown had
+already been severely strained during the previous reign by the
+high-handed procedure of Lerma, the favorite of Philip III. Portuguese
+administrative offices had been filled in Madrid, and the country was
+inconsiderately taxed to maintain Castilian sovereignty. Under Philip IV
+the regent of the kingdom was Doña Margarita, Duchess of Mantua and
+granddaughter of Philip II.[8] While she was ostensibly in control of
+the difficult Portuguese situation, the real ruler was Don Miguel
+Vasconcellos, a Portuguese of scant ability and bloodthirsty instincts;
+he was kept in command by Olivares dictating from Madrid. The
+announcement of Vasconcellos to the nation that it was the intention of
+Olivares to remove the last vestige of constitutional rule in Portugal
+by the suppression of the Portuguese Cortes drove the patriots to rally
+about the Duke of Braganza. A well-planned conspiracy was set on foot to
+place Braganza on the throne of Portugal and thus to rid the country
+forever of the hated Castilian sovereignty.
+
+[Footnote 8: Philip II had married his daughter, the infanta Catalina,
+to Charles Emmanuel of Savoy.]
+
+After the failure of all his attempts to bring Braganza to Madrid,
+Olivares tried desperately to win his favor by apparently putting the
+fate of Portugal entirely in his hands. It was a fatal course. Olivares
+sent him large sums of money to raise troops to keep the Portuguese
+situation in control and help in the repression of the Catalans; then he
+put Braganza at the head of them.
+
+In November of 1640 Braganza proclaimed himself king. The regent
+Margaret was imprisoned. Vasconcellos was killed by the mob.
+
+The news was received in Madrid with the deepest dismay. Pellicer[9]
+wrote: "These announcements should be written with blood, and deserve to
+be wept over rather than written, for they contain nothing less than the
+rebellion of Portugal and the coronation of Don Juan, whom they call
+Juan IV, the Duke of Braganza." It is commonly stated that Olivares
+announced the news of the rebellion to Philip by congratulating him upon
+the opportunity thus offered to seize the property of Braganza.
+
+[Footnote 9: _Avisos de 11 de Diciembre de 1640._]
+
+To add to the troubles in Portugal and Catalonia just described, a plot
+by the Duke of Medina Sidonia to make himself independent sovereign of
+Andalusia was discovered only just in time to prevent a serious rising.
+
+The advisability of Philip's putting himself in person at the head of
+the troops in the north had long been the subject of earnest and bitter
+discussion between Olivares and his enemies. The latter had urged upon
+Philip the necessity of seeing with his own eyes the pass to which
+matters had been brought by the ineptitude and recklessness of his
+minister. This could best be accomplished by a visit of inspection to
+the revolted provinces. Moreover, with Philip and Olivares away from the
+capital the queen and those of the nobility who were working for the
+downfall of Olivares could proceed with a freer hand.
+
+When once the royal party had left, Doña Isabel set about her task with
+true nobility and great energy. She was almost heroic in her efforts to
+encourage and inspire with loyalty to the crown the troops garrisoned in
+Madrid. She even sold her jewels to raise money for the campaign in
+Aragon.
+
+Philip, meanwhile, was traveling slowly northward with great pomp and
+ceremony. Olivares was straining every nerve to prevent the king's
+realizing the desperateness of the situation. The monarch was denied to
+all visitors, and his attention was distracted by elaborate hunting
+expeditions. As he progressed toward Aragon, the French, moving
+southward, occupied Monzón.
+
+December of 1642 found Philip again in Madrid. Portugal was hopelessly
+lost, Roussillon was in the hands of the French, while Catalonia and
+Aragon were in open revolt. Briefly sketched, this was the political
+situation at the opening of our play.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+While Spain was at this time economically bankrupt, the reigns of Philip
+III and Philip IV comprise nevertheless the most brilliant decades of
+the Golden Century. These are the years that are marked by the greatest
+literary activity of Lope de Vega, Cervantes, and Quevedo. Lope had made
+the theater national and had prepared the way for the romantic genius of
+Calderón, while a throng of lesser lights, such as Tirso de Molina and
+Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, were delighting the capital with plays in great
+profusion. For all this a great stimulus had come from the
+theater-loving Philip III, who lavished money without stint upon the
+gorgeous production of comedies, pageants, and masques.
+
+Cervantes had shown the way to the novelists. In prose fiction true
+characterization had developed to keep pace with extensive and elaborate
+narrative elements. At the same time the outburst of lyric poetry was no
+less striking. The ability to write verse had become truly a necessary
+qualification for social success and even for political advancement.
+Great magnates surrounded themselves with a retinue of poets and men of
+letters who depended upon them for their support.
+
+Don Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, the central figure of our play, was
+one of the greatest personalities in this brilliant court. He was born
+in 1580. At barely twenty he left the University of Alcalá and plunged
+immediately into the life of the magnificently corrupt court of Philip
+III at Valladolid. When the capital was moved to Madrid in 1606 he had
+already won fame as a poet. The manuscripts of his satirical writings
+in prose and verse were eagerly sought and widely read. His thrusts were
+aimed at the ridiculous aspects of court life. His own indulgence in a
+career of thorough dissipation filled him with contempt for his wretched
+companions. Intimate association with men in high positions reached by
+either noble birth or corrupt influence made him familiar with the vices
+of Philip's government and with the ineffectiveness of the Spanish
+bureaucratic administration. In his "Sueños" (Visions) he satirized
+unsparingly men from all the walks of life. His attacks were at times
+mocking jeers at human weaknesses and at others outbursts of desperate
+fury against current injustice and stupidity.
+
+After a short period of retirement from the capital he became the firm
+friend of Don Pedro Téllez Girón, Duke of Osuna, who had been named
+viceroy of Sicily in 1610. The uncommonly strong bond of friendship
+between these two men was founded upon mutual admiration of common
+qualities of fearlessness and red-blooded dash and spirit. In 1616
+Quevedo followed Osuna to Naples, where he was of great service to him
+as adviser and confidential emissary. These years of semi-official
+activity brought Quevedo into the very midst of the tangle of politics
+involving France, Italy, and Spain, and above all into the bog of
+bureaucratic corruption. Osuna's business in Madrid with the prime
+minister, Lerma, was managed by Quevedo. Now Lerma and his creatures
+were amenable to reason only when accompanied by bribes. Access to him
+was denied to all who brought no gifts. Quevedo's disgust at these
+methods was boundless, but there was no avoiding them.[10] In
+recognition of his distinguished services Quevedo was made a knight of
+the order of St. James in 1618.[11]
+
+[Footnote 10: No less a person than the Attorney General wrote to Osuna
+of a prominent person at court, "Your Excellency may be quite sure of M.
+He wants a carpet; send him two, and pray God that some one else does
+not give him three."]
+
+[Footnote 11: In the play there is a trifling anachronism according to
+which we are to believe that in 1643 Quevedo had not yet received this
+honor.]
+
+In 1620 Osuna came to Madrid to answer the charge of having conspired to
+make himself independent viceroy of Naples. On his arrival he was thrown
+into prison, while Quevedo was held in custody at a distance from
+Madrid. Osuna died in 1624 before his guilt or innocence could be
+clearly proved. Quevedo afterward fought to clear his protector's name.
+At least he has secured his fame to posterity by the famous sonnet,
+
+ Faltar pudo su patria al grande Osuna,
+ Pero no a su defensa sus hazañas;
+ Diéronle muerte y carcel las Españas,
+ De quien el hizo esclava la Fortuna.
+ Lloraron sus invidias una a una
+ Con las propias naciones las extrañas;
+ Su tumba son de Flandes las campañas,
+ Y su epitafio la sangrienta luna.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+While Quevedo was enduring his enforced retirement Philip III died
+(March, 1621) and was succeeded by his son Philip IV. Uceda, the
+former's minister, was sent to follow his father Lerma into retirement
+and disgrace. Olivares, who had already won the confidence of young
+Philip, was installed as prime minister.
+
+Superficial reforms by which Olivares signalized his arrival momentarily
+led Quevedo to hope for better things. He wrote to celebrate the wisdom
+of the new minister and to assure him of his loyalty. He was soon at
+liberty to enjoy the fame and wholesome respect that his political
+prominence and keen satire had won him. His enemies were numerous, but
+they dared not attack him. Olivares himself courted Quevedo, but the
+latter, grown discreet for the moment, lent his ear and not his heart:
+he could not give himself to a minister who was already beginning to
+show his unwillingness to go to the root of the evils that were ruining
+the country.
+
+During these years of comparative political inactivity Quevedo had
+greater opportunity to study the vicious standards of living that stain
+this period of Spanish history. His writings are full of the scathing
+irony of his youth on the one hand, or of passionate religious fervor on
+the other. At other moments he indulges his tendency to seek refuge and
+comfort in the gentle stoicism of Seneca.
+
+His reckless slurs on women did not prevent his taking a wife in 1633.
+Perhaps Doña Esperanza de Aragón possessed the qualities that Quevedo
+had flippantly demanded:
+
+ Noble, virtuous, and of good understanding, neither ugly nor
+ beautiful; of these two extremes I prefer her beautiful, because it
+ is better to have something to guard than some one to flee from.
+ Neither rich nor poor, that she may not be buying me, nor I her. I
+ desire her cheerful, for in our daily life we shall not lack for
+ gloom. I wish her neither a young girl nor an old woman, cradle nor
+ coffin, because I have forgotten my lullabies and not yet learned
+ the prayers for the dying. I should thank God infinitely if she
+ were deaf and a stammerer. But after all I shall esteem a woman
+ such as I desire _y sabré sufrir la que fuere como yo la merezco_.
+
+Their married life was cut short by the death of Doña Esperanza in the
+middle of the following year.
+
+There can be no doubt of Quevedo's thinly-veiled distrust of the
+administration of Olivares during these years, nor that he foresaw the
+impending catastrophe. The campaign which he was now carrying on against
+the favorite drew upon him not only the fear but the hatred of Olivares.
+Philip himself was blind to the state of the peninsula, thanks to
+Olivares' successful efforts to keep him amused.
+
+Finally one day early in December of 1639 Philip found in his napkin a
+petition in verse. It contained an eloquent description of the wretched
+condition of the country and a bitter arraignment of Olivares. Every
+circumstance pointed to Quevedo as the author. On the seventh of
+December he was arrested and his papers were confiscated. His
+disappearance was so sudden and complete that it was generally believed
+that he had been summarily done to death, but in reality he had been
+rushed to a dungeon in the monastery of San Marcos just outside the
+walls of the city of León. Here he received treatment probably intended
+to cause his death, for he wrote to his friend Adán de la Parra:
+
+ Although at first I had a tower of this holy dwelling for my
+ prison... within a short time I was brought to another a great deal
+ more comfortless. There I remain. It is nothing more than an
+ underground room, as damp as a spring, so dark that it is almost
+ always night in it, and so cold that it never ceases to seem
+ January. Clear enough! they that take pleasure in seeing me suffer
+ do not wish to cut once for all that which they must finally cut,
+ but they wish rather that the frequency of their blows may make my
+ martyrdom more painful by its longer continuance; for thus their
+ satisfaction gains in length.
+
+ The tomb where I am buried alive is barely twenty-four feet long
+ and nineteen wide. The vault and walls are in many places crumbling
+ with dampness, and everything is so miserable that it appears
+ rather the refuge of outlaw robbers than the prison of an honest
+ man.
+
+ To enter it one must pass through two doors equally strong. One is
+ at the level of the monastery floor and the other at the level of
+ my cell, after twenty-eight steps that have the look of a
+ precipice. Both are always closed except at moments when, more by
+ courtesy than through confidence, they leave one open but the other
+ doubly guarded.
+
+ In the middle of the room there stands a table where I am writing.
+ It is large enough to permit of thirty or more books, with which my
+ holy brothers keep me provided. At the right (to the south) I have
+ my neither very comfortable nor extremely wretched bed.
+
+
+ The furniture of this miserable habitation consists of four chairs,
+ a brasier, and a lamp. There is always noise enough, for the sound
+ of my fetters drowns other greater ones, if not by its volume, by
+ its pitifulness.... Not long ago I had two pairs, but one of the
+ monks obtained permission to leave me with only one pair. Those
+ that I am wearing now weigh about eight or nine pounds; the ones
+ they took off were much heavier.... Such is the life to which I
+ have been reduced by him who because I would not be his favorite is
+ to-day my enemy.
+
+He endured his confinement with fortitude, sustained by the conviction
+that he had given his best for the cause of justice.
+
+The series of disasters that ultimately caused the fall of Olivares on
+January 23, 1643, has been discussed in another part of this
+introduction. Quevedo's release followed in June, but the iron had
+already entered his soul. A little more than two weeks before his death
+he wrote to his friend Francisco de Oviedo in a tone of profound
+discouragement:
+
+ They write bad news from everywhere, desperate news; and the worst
+ of it is that every one expected it. All this, Don Francisco, I
+ know not if it be drawing to its close or if it be already ended.
+ God knows, for there are many things which, though they seem to
+ exist and to have being, are no longer more than a word and a form.
+
+He died at the age of sixty-five on September 8, 1645, at Villanueva de
+los Infantes.
+
+Even the bare enumeration of the more important events of Quevedo's life
+suggests his eager activity. This characteristic is the most striking
+feature of his style. An idea is no sooner suggested than it is left
+undeveloped to make way for another, set down often in a sentence which
+in its turn is without a satisfactory conclusion; or the expression of
+it is so condensed that we marvel at its retaining any lucidity. Many of
+his earlier writings are little more than a series of sketches that
+appear to have been written with feverish impatience but at the same
+time with great penetration. In his satirical verses there is a world of
+double meanings and allusions that leaves the reader's mind dizzy. The
+variety of his works is great. His facile creative brain passed from a
+ribald ballad or _letrilla_ to a life of St. Francis de Sales or a
+treatise on Divine Providence. But through them all one can discern the
+motif of patriotism in the form of virulent satire against the vices
+that were gnawing at the life of the nation, or of a fervent plea for
+better standards in public and private life. When he felt the impotence
+of his rage or the fruitlessness of his pleas he turned earnestly and
+longingly to his cherished Seneca. But even in this frame of mind we
+cannot help feeling that there is something intensely passionate in his
+very patience. He gave his best years to the battle against national
+decay. Perhaps it is not too much to say that he died of disappointment
+and disgust.
+
+Quevedo's life, then, is by no means devoid of aspects that would appeal
+strongly to a romantic poet like Florentino Sanz. The most striking
+feature, of course, is his struggle with Olivares, followed by apparent
+defeat and imprisonment at San Marcos de León, which in reality meant a
+moral victory in the face of persecution. This in itself was an ideal
+situation to call forth the heroics of a romantic poet. Furthermore,
+Quevedo could properly complain that he had been misunderstood. He was
+giving himself to a great cause while many of his contemporaries
+recognized only the superficial wit or the obscenity of his satire. His
+proud scorn of stupidity and all mediocrity was easily susceptible of a
+romantic twist into a lofty contempt for the miserable human creatures
+that drag out their darkened groveling lives. To make the play an
+unqualified success it was necessary that Quevedo succumb to the gentle
+passion, although in reality Quevedo's stern heart had little room for
+it. There can be no denying his cynical disbelief in feminine virtue.
+Associations of his own choice gave him little opportunity for illusions
+on that score. To be sure, he married at fifty-two, but circumstances
+lead us to doubt his happiness. Quevedo in love is thorny ground for
+any author. It is difficult to understand how Sanz succeeded in making
+this innovation as plausible as it is. It is his surrender to virtues so
+sterling as those of Margarita de Saboya that saves him from being
+ridiculous. Perhaps one may be pardoned for a furtive smile at the
+implication that Quevedo must depart to mope in his tower, while
+Margarita, herself a widow, pines in the convent.
+
+The name Quevedo has come to connote vaguely a personage of achievements
+as fabulous as those of Robin Hood. His undoubted skill as a swordsman
+has made him the hero of a thousand nocturnal escapades. His proverbial
+wit has forced upon him the responsibility for doubtful puns and
+innumerable bits of repartee. Unfortunately this is true to such a
+degree that to the uninitiated Quevedo is little more than a buffoon or
+a swaggering swordsman. It is easy to see that in his play Sanz intended
+to combat this mistaken conception. When it was first presented in 1848
+there existed no authoritative and accessible edition of Quevedo's
+works[12] where he could be adequately studied and a fair estimate of
+him made. Such works of his as were spread broad-cast were usually the
+more objectionable excerpts from his less creditable works. They
+appeared in wretched volumes bearing a close resemblance to some that
+are published even now under such titles as "Quevedo, His Wittiest
+Prose, His Funniest Verses." Sanz felt the injustice deeply and set
+about its correction.
+
+[Footnote 12: The first volume of Fernández-Guerra's splendid edition
+appeared in 1852.]
+
+Those who knew Sanz personally[13] have been left with the clear
+impression that through the medium of Quevedo, Sanz poured forth his
+invective against those that refused to recognize his own ability.
+
+[Footnote 13: I speak especially of Don Juan Perez de Guzman and Don
+Julio Nombela, both of whom have been kind enough to give me all the
+data at their disposal.]
+
+There can be no doubt that the ultimate source, or rather the
+inspiration, of the play was the appeal to Sanz of the personality of
+Quevedo. There are other more tangible sources that may be briefly
+indicated. An important element in the plot is Queen Isabel's struggle
+to obtain from Olivares a certain letter which had been written in blood
+by the Conde de Villamediana and which would prove her fidelity to her
+husband, Philip. The existence of such a valuable document is pure
+invention. Villamediana's contemporaries are unanimous in saying that
+after being stabbed he died almost instantly and that his only words
+were "Esto es hecho." The romantic circumstances of Villamediana's
+attachment to the queen had been rehearsed to the public only a few
+years before the production of "Don Francisco de Quevedo." In 1841 the
+Duke of Rivas had published his four ballads, "Los Toros," "Las Máscaras
+y Cañas," "El Sarao," and "Final," under the title "El Conde de
+Villamediana." The affair then would be fresh in the minds of Sanz and
+his public. Don Juan de Tassis y Peralta, Count of Villamediana, was
+born in Lisbon in 1580, and was brought up in the court of Philip III.
+In 1614 he served in Italy, and the end of 1618 found him again in
+Madrid, where he lived magnificently, indulging freely his tastes for
+paintings, jewels, and horses. His satirical pen, attacking even the
+Duke of Lerma and the royal confessor, Fray Luis de Aliaga, was the
+cause of his exile from Madrid in 1618. At the accession of Philip IV he
+was recalled to Madrid and made a gentleman in waiting to the queen.
+Fallen ministers and the favorites of Philip III continued to be marks
+for his attacks. Olivares, the enemy of Villamediana and Doña Isabel,
+probably brought his libels to the attention of Philip. On August 21,
+1622, as Villamediana was driving through the Calle Mayor, a man halted
+his coach, and, as the count was descending, ran him through the heart.
+The gossips of Madrid attributed the murder to Olivares, giving as his
+motive his hatred and fear of Villamediana. Others laid the blame upon
+Philip, whose jealousy had been aroused, they said, by Villamediana's
+marked attentions to Doña Isabel.
+
+Further historical material for the play Sanz took from two arraignments
+of the administration of Olivares published by Valladares. The use of
+these sources by Sanz will be pointed out as briefly as possible. The
+circumstances of the imprisonment of Doña Margarita in Ocaña, her flight
+to Madrid, and her subsequent treatment at the hands of Olivares are
+presented in detail in the "Caída de su Privanza y Muerte del
+Conde-Duque de Olivares, Gran Privado del Señor Rey Don Felipe IV, el
+Grande, con los motivos y no imaginada disposición de dicha Caída,"[14]
+and in the "Memorial de Don Francisco de Quevedo contra el Conde-Duque
+de Olivares. Dado al Rey Don Felipe Quarto."[15] According to the
+account in the latter she had received no reply to her complaints
+against the evil conduct of Vasconcellos and the suicidal policy of
+Olivares toward the Duke of Braganza.[16]
+
+[Footnote 14: _Sem. Erud._, III, pp. 1-62.]
+
+[Footnote 15: Ibid., XV, pp. 215-245.]
+
+[Footnote 16: It should be noted here that Quevedo's journey to Lisbon
+to bring back the proofs of Margarita's story is an ingenious fiction
+concocted by Sanz. In reality Quevedo was a prisoner in San Marcos de
+León.]
+
+The interview between Olivares and the queen about the establishment of
+the young Prince of the Asturias in separate apartments with an
+independent household (Act II, scene ii) was evidently taken from the
+"Memorial" (p. 214) and from the "Caída" (p. 49). Says Philip, "And why,
+Conde-Duque, would he not be better off in the apartment that you
+yourself occupy? It is especially for the firstborn of the king, and is
+the one in which my father and myself were when we were princes." There
+also is mentioned the removal of the Count of Lemos, the Marquis of
+Castel Rodrigo, and Don Fernando de Borja from the palace.
+
+In Act III, scene ii, Margarita laments the loss of Spanish possessions
+through the ineptitude of Olivares:
+
+ por él perdimos
+ a Esthin, Wiranzan y Dola,
+ y a más las Islas Terceras,
+ y el Ducado de Borgoña
+ y el Brasil y el Rosellón,
+ y Ormuz, Pernambuco y Hoa;
+ y no ha mucho Portugal...
+
+The same catalogue of losses, even to the peculiar spelling of Hesdin
+and Bisanzón (Besançon), appears in the "Caída."
+
+The intensely dramatic episode of the presentation of the golden cup to
+Olivares as a memorial from Philip is founded upon fact. Pellicer's
+_Avisos_ contain even the detail of the note.[17] There too is the
+account of the ceremonial at the first presentation.
+
+[Footnote 17: V de Junio de 1639; _Sem. Erud._, XXXI, p. 25.]
+
+
+
+
+ VERSIFICATION
+
+
+The meters used by Sanz in Don Francisco de Quevedo are the following:
+
+_Redondilla_, strophe of four eight-syllable or seven-syllable verses,
+riming _abba_.
+
+_Romance_, eight-syllable or seven-syllable verses, indefinite in
+number, with even lines in assonance.
+
+_Romance Heroico_ or _Real_, romance of eleven-syllable verses.
+
+_Quintilla_, strophe of five eight-syllable verses with but two rimes.
+Of the possible combinations we have only _abaab_.
+
+_Cuarteto_, strophe of four eleven-syllable verses rimed _abba_.
+
+_Cuarteta_, strophe of four eight-syllable verses rimed _abab_.
+
+_Silva_, eleven-syllable and seven-syllable verses, mixed with wide
+liberty. There is wide liberty in the use of rime as well.
+
+
+
+
+ SCHEME OF METERS
+
+
+Verses 1-124 Redondillas
+Verses 125-226 Romance
+Verses 227-246 Quintillas
+Verses 247-626 Redondillas
+Verses 627-804 Romance
+Verses 805-1276 Redondillas
+Verses 1277-1292 Cuartetos
+Verses 1293-1352 Romance
+Verses 1353-1368 Redondillas
+Verses 1369-1644 Romance
+Verses 1645-1768 Redondillas
+Verses 1769-1838 Quintillas
+Verses 1839-1866 Romance
+Verses 1867-1876 Quintillas
+Verses 1877-1912 Romance
+Verses 1913-2079 Silva
+Verses 2080-2323 Redondillas
+Verses 2324-2423 Romance
+Verses 2424-2643 Redondillas
+Verses 2644-2728 Quintillas
+Verses 2729-2806 Romance Real
+Verses 2807-2876 Quintillas
+Verses 2877-2880 Cuarteta
+Verses 2881-2910 Redondillas
+Verses 2911-2914 Cuarteta
+Verses 2915-2950 Redondillas
+Verses 2951-3020 Quintillas
+Verses 3021-3060 Redondillas
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+
+
+ DON FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO
+
+ DRAMA EN CUATRO ACTOS
+
+ PERSONAJES
+
+
+DON FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO
+MARGARITA DE SABOYA
+LA REINA
+EL CONDE-DUQUE DE OLIVARES
+DOÑA INÉS
+DON JUAN DE CASTILLA
+DON PABLO MENDAÑA
+MEDINA
+EL MARQUÉS DE LA GRANA
+UN CAPITÁN
+UN ALCALDE DE CASA Y CORTE
+UN UJIER
+
+Ronda de capa, guardias, damas, meninas, caballeros, pajes, etc.
+
+La escena en Madrid, año de 1643
+
+
+
+
+ACTO I
+
+Noche.--Una plazuela que se supone ser la de San Martín, conforme estaba
+en la época del drama. A la izquierda, en primer término, la fachada y
+gradería del templo; en segundo, una calle, y otra en el fondo, que
+parte casi en la misma dirección. A la derecha, en segundo término, otra
+calle que cae en frente de la de la izquierda; en primero, una casa con
+puerta y balcón practicables, y delante de la casa una imagen en su
+nicho sobre la pared, alumbrada por un farolillo, única luz que hay en
+la escena.
+
+
+ESCENA PRIMERA
+
+MENDAÑA, CASTILLA, GRANA, que al levantarse el telón aparecen mirando
+con curiosidad a varias damas, que a su espalda se dirigen hacia el
+templo, todas con el velo levantado. Con las damas se verán también
+algunos caballeros
+
+CASTILLA
+
+¡Todas sin manto!
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Mejor.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+No digáis eso, Mendaña;
+siempre el manto fué en España...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Tapa-enredijos de amor.
+
+GRANA
+
+Si antes fueron permitidos 5
+los velos...
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ Sigan como antes
+para bien de los amantes...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Para mal de los maridos.
+
+GRANA
+
+Vos, por lo visto, don Pablo,
+dado sois al matrimonio. 10
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+No diré que no.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ ¡Demonio!
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Ni diré que sí.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ ¡Pues diablo!...
+Diréis... ¡qué sé yo!
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Quien forme
+otros juicios mucho yerra;
+que al fin y al cabo, en la tierra 15
+todo es... según y conforme.
+
+GRANA
+
+¡Ah! ya...
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ No os entiendo aún.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Todo en el mundo es mejor.
+
+GRANA
+
+¿Todo, decís?
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Sí, señor;
+todo, conforme y según. 20
+
+GRANA
+
+De lo que decís infiero...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Que es mejor vivir casado.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Mas yo en limpio habré sacado...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Que es mejor vivir soltero.
+
+GRANA
+
+¡Gran sentencia!
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ ¡Gran sandez! 25
+
+GRANA
+
+Tal razón me deja mudo.
+Siendo viudo...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ ¡Ah! para el viudo
+lo mejor es la viudez.
+
+GRANA (riéndose)
+
+¡Profunda filosofía!...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Por profunda y verdadera 30
+es mejor que otra cualquiera.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Si la cede en mejoría.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Es verdad!
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ Tenéis razón.
+¡Voto a veinticinco santos!...
+Pero volviendo a los mantos, 35
+que es aquí nuestra cuestión...
+
+GRANA
+
+Nadie a comprenderlo acierta.
+Cual si fuesen a sus bodas,
+andan hoy las damas todas
+con la cara descubierta. 40
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Es que el rey lo manda así.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Mas ¿por qué lo manda el rey?
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Yo no interpreto su ley.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Corren voces por ahí...
+Lo diré pronto y clarito: 45
+esa injusta ley...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ ¡Prudencia!
+Su majestad...
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ Su excelencia...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Dióla el rey...
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ No; el favorito.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Es lo propio, según creo.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Sí... Olivares...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ ¡Gran señor! 50
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Pues, os protege...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Mejor.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Eso sí que es mejoreo.
+Pero, volviendo a Olivares,
+él, que al soberano engaña,
+le arrancó ley tan extraña 55
+por fines particulares.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Es un falso testimonio.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+No; tan ridícula ley...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Dióla en servicio del rey.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+O en servicio del demonio. 60
+No conspiran las tapadas;
+y es esa ley singular.
+
+MENDAÑA (con calor)
+
+La mejor... para evitar
+enredos y cuchilladas.
+
+CASTILLA (colérico)
+
+¡Vive Dios!...
+
+
+
+ESCENA II
+
+Dichos, QUEVEDO
+
+QUEVEDO (entrando por la derecha)
+
+ Paz, caballeros; 65
+no haya duelo ni quebranto,
+ni en noche de Jueves Santo
+se ensangrienten los aceros.
+
+GRANA
+
+¡Noble cisne de Madrid!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Cisne pues!... El de Guzmán 70
+dice que soy alcotán.
+
+GRANA
+
+¡Oh, venid acá, venid!
+¿Qué hay de nuevo por la corte?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Por Madrid?
+
+GRANA
+
+ No; por palacio.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+No sé nada.
+
+GRANA
+
+ ¡Qué rehacio! 75
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Nada que a nadie le importe;
+pero cuando aquí llegué,
+percibí en frases cortadas
+no sé qué de cuchilladas...
+
+CASTILLA
+
+¿Conque oísteis?...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ No sé qué. 80
+
+GRANA
+
+Eran Castilla y Mendaña
+disputando con calor
+que esa ley...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Es la mejor.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+La peor que hubo en España.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Cómo! ¿Habláis sobre los mantos? 85
+Eso es andar por las ramas.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Tal rigor contra las damas...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Nos descubre sus encantos.
+No os paréis en frioleras.
+Tal negocio no es de rey 90
+ni de ministro... Esa ley
+es cuestión de costureras.
+Leyes de tan ruin valía
+no son de gobierno, a fe;
+son leyes no más...
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ ¿De qué? 95
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Leyes... de guardarropía.
+
+GRANA
+
+¡Bien dicho, bien!... Pero ya
+ruido en el templo se siente.
+Las tinieblas...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Ciertamente.
+Vamos, señores, allá. 100
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Vamos, pues.
+
+CASTILLA (aparte)
+
+ Quevedo, oíd.
+
+
+
+ESCENA III
+
+QUEVEDO y CASTILLA, que le detiene cuando se dirigía al templo
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Qué es lo que tanto os agita?
+
+CASTILLA
+
+¡Oh! La infanta Margarita
+vino ayer tarde a Madrid.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pero entonces ¿dónde está? 105
+En palacio no.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ Lo sé.
+Donde Olivares esté
+nunca la infanta cabrá.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Mas ¿quién vino en su compaña?
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Sola de Ocaña se huyó; 110
+¿y sabéis por qué?... Por no
+morirse de hambre en Ocaña.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Es imposible.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ Por Cristo
+yo os juro que vino ayer,
+y que entró al anochecer, 115
+y que mis ojos la han visto.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Equivocación, don Juan.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Yo sé bien que se halla aquí;
+pero tengo para mí
+que otros también lo sabrán. 120
+Olivares vive alerta;
+teme que aborten sus tramas...
+Tal vez... ¿Quién sabe?... Hoy las damas
+van con la faz descubierta. (Entra en el templo)
+
+
+ESCENA IV
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Ella es, sin duda... Castilla 125
+dice que se huyó de Ocaña...
+Cierto: ayer entró en la corte,
+y hoy me dirige esta carta.
+Diómela con tal misterio
+aquel hombre de la capa... 130
+Ni se descubrió el embozo
+ni me dijo una palabra.
+De ella es, sin duda... Imposible...
+No; la duquesa de Mantua,
+del gran Felipe Segundo 135
+nieta, del rey prima hermana,
+la que en Portugal virreina
+fué también; la ilustre infanta
+Margarita de Saboya...
+No, no puede ser la dama 140
+que me escribe... Sin embargo,
+ella es hoy bien desgraciada...
+Y aun así yo... ¿qué podría
+para endulzar su desgracia?
+El pensarlo fué quimera... 145
+Mas ¿de quién es esta carta?
+¿De quién?... Cuanto más la leo
+menos mi mente lo alcanza. (Leyendo a la luz del farol)
+
+ «Una dama ilustre a quien vos conocéis y que os estima en mucho, ha
+ menester hablaros esta misma noche. Estad en San Martín y la veréis
+ al fin de las tinieblas. A pesar de la prohibición de los velos irá
+ rebozada y encubierta, porque le importa no ser de nadie conocida;
+ y porque vos la conozcáis su nombre os dirá ella misma. Adiós.»
+
+(Durante la lectura de la carta MEDINA se asoma al balcón, y después de
+observar a QUEVEDO, desaparece)
+
+Su nombre... su nombre... Cierto...
+Margarita... Sí, la infanta... 150
+¡Ella en Madrid! ¡Oh! Castilla
+dice que se huyó de Ocaña...
+Sí... ya sabrá el conde-duque
+su venida... y para hallarla
+mandó que desde hoy sin velo 155
+anden por Madrid las damas.
+¡Cuánto la aborrece ese hombre!... (Mira la carta)
+
+
+ESCENA V
+
+QUEVEDO y MENDAÑA, que sale del templo
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Quevedo... Mas ¡calla, calla!
+¿Componéis versos? ¡Por vida!...
+Vamos, ya entiendo... ¡Una sátira! 160
+¡Ah mejor, mejor!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (¡Imbécil!)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Llenos estarán de gracia
+picante... Vamos, leedme.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿No me buscabais, Mendaña?
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Ciertamente; las tinieblas 165
+dieron principio, y La Grana,
+Castilla y demás amigos,
+notando vuestra tardanza...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Vamos, pues.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Sí; mas primero
+leedme...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Ved que me aguardan. 170
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Bien; pero después...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Después...
+ (Dirigiéndose al templo y con convicción)
+(Es la duquesa de Mantua.)
+
+
+ESCENA VI
+
+OLIVARES, que ha estado en la esquina de la derecha y con el embozo a la
+cara durante la escena anterior; después MEDINA
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Gracias a Dios que me dejan
+libre un momento la plaza.
+ (Llamando a la casa de la derecha)
+¡Medina!
+
+MEDINA (saliendo)
+
+ ¿Señor?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ La hora 175
+llega.
+
+MEDINA
+
+ La espero con ansia.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Los has conocido?
+
+MEDINA
+
+ A todos.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Qué hablaron?
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Con la distancia
+no he conseguido cazarles
+ni siquiera una palabra. 180
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Bien, poco importa. Quevedo...
+
+MEDINA
+
+Leyendo estuvo la carta.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Será la misma?
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Sin duda.
+No habrá conocido nada.
+Luego que vos la leísteis, 185
+volví de nuevo a cerrarla,
+y al punto se la entregaron
+como si estuviese intacta.
+¡Oh! Con tan buenos espías...
+no hay que interceptar las cartas, 190
+cuando él mismo que las lleva
+se encarga de interceptarlas.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Está bien. Cuando del templo
+la dama del manto salga...
+ya lo sabes.
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Ciertamente. 195
+Mas si alguno la acompaña...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+La sigues y...
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Ya, ya entiendo:
+en cualquier calle excusada...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Discreción y mano firme.
+
+MEDINA
+
+Podéis rezar por su alma. 200
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Golpe seguro.
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Seguro
+lo llevó Villamediana.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pero aun pudo en su agonía
+escribir cuatro palabras
+con su propia sangre, y pudo 205
+perdernos.
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Pero a Dios gracias,
+el escrito a vuestras manos
+fué derecho y...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ No fué mala
+suerte el que yo aquella noche
+como un alcalde rondara 210
+cuando se halló su cadáver
+tendido junto a las tapias,
+cerrando el papel sangriento
+entre sus manos crispadas.
+
+MEDINA
+
+Pero nunca me habéis dicho 215
+lo que en él Villamediana
+escribió al morir.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Medina,
+eso ya no importa nada;
+lo que importa es que esta noche
+no escriba también la dama... 220
+
+MEDINA
+
+No dirá: ¡Jesús!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Confío...
+
+MEDINA
+
+Podéis tener confianza.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pues a palacio en seguida;
+mira que aguardo con ansia.
+
+MEDINA
+
+Grande es, sin duda, el servicio... 225
+
+OLIVARES
+
+No será menor la paga.
+ (MEDINA a una seña de OLIVARES saluda
+ y entra en la casa)
+
+
+ESCENA VII
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Dura pensión del poder!...
+¡Oh! luchar... ¡siempre luchar!
+¡Enemigos por doquier!...
+Mas no es fácil sorprender 230
+a quien se empeña en velar.
+Tú, con tu ardid, estás hoy,
+noble duquesa, en Madrid;
+pero yo también estoy,
+y han de luchar, por quien soy, 235
+el ardid contra el ardid.
+Quisiste, al dejar a Ocaña,
+decir al rey, por mi mal:
+«Miente Olivares, te engaña:
+por su culpa el rey de España 240
+no es ya rey de Portugal.»
+¡Débil, incauta mujer!...
+Vanos tus intentos son,
+y muy pronto hemos de ver
+si me arrancas el poder 245
+o te arranco el corazón. (Se dirige al fondo)
+
+
+ESCENA VIII
+
+OLIVARES, MARGARITA por el fondo con el velo echado
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Ah!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Señora, perdonad. (Dejándola paso)
+(¿Con velo?... Es ella.)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Id con Dios.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Yo me holgara de ir con vos.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Pláceme la soledad. 250
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Débeos ser muy halagüeña
+esa soledad, señora,
+cuando por aquí a tal hora
+vais sin rodrigón ni dueña.
+Mas, ya entiendo: alguna cita... 255
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Adiós, que se me hace tarde.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Un momento.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Dios os guarde. (Se dirige al templo)
+
+OLIVARES (después de un momento)
+
+(¡Oh, qué idea!) ¡Margarita!
+ (MARGARITA que empieza a subir las gradas, vuelve al punto la cabeza)
+Bien; acerté vuestro nombre.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¡Gran Dios!)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ ¿Vais a San Martín? 260
+Ya dan las tinieblas fin.
+No vayáis.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ (¿Quién es este hombre?)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Os habéis quedado muda?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Quién sois vos?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Nada os importe:
+soy... un cualquiera de la corte. 265
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Conocéis?...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Sí, a cierta viuda,
+conocida en toda España,
+que en secreto...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Proseguid.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Vino ayer tarde a Madrid.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Desde dónde?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Desde Ocaña. 270
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¡Gran Dios! ¡Soy perdida!)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ (¡Oh, cuánto,
+cuánto con su angustia gozo!)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Echad abajo el embozo.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Cuando echéis atrás el manto.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Y os atrevéis?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Damas mil 275
+van hoy sin velo; es de ley:
+ved que lo ha mandado el rey.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Sois, por ventura, alguacil?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Soy, señora, un poco más:
+un hombre que ve y observa, 280
+que siente crecer la hierba;
+soy...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡El mismo Satanás!
+
+OLIVARES (riéndose)
+
+Bien decís.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ (Él es... ¡Ay Dios!
+¡Quién otro pudiera... quién!)
+Hidalgo, os conozco bien. 285
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Bien os conozco yo a vos.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Causa sois de mis pesares.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Mi nombre...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Nombre maldito!
+Os llamáis... el favorito. (Con desprecio)
+
+OLIVARES (desembarazándose)
+
+Conde-duque de Olivares. 290
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¡No me engañé!... ¡Siempre ese hombre!)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Algo suspensa os dejó
+mi nombre...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ (Me insulta. ¡Oh!...)
+Yo desprecio vuestro nombre.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Nadie le humilló en el mundo; 295
+nombre es que España respeta...
+¿Quién no teme?...
+
+MARGARITA (descubriéndose con arrogancia)
+
+ Yo... la nieta
+del gran Felipe Segundo.
+
+OLIVARES (saludándola con ironía)
+
+Dama de la sangre real
+que altas prendas atesora; 300
+por el rey gobernadora
+del reino de Portugal.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Algún día... Ya hace meses (Con amargura)
+que el rey, mi primo y señor,
+no tiene gobernador 305
+en dominios portugueses.
+Allí fuimos soberanos;
+mas gracias a vos, después
+ese reino portugués
+se nos fué de entre las manos. 310
+¡Y por eso Margarita
+sufre tantas penas hoy!...
+
+OLIVARES (como esquivando la conversación)
+
+¿Vais al templo?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Al templo voy...
+Tengo en el templo una cita.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿En el mismo templo?... A fe... 315
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Fuera de casa o del templo
+mal segura me contemplo,
+y adivinad vos por qué.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(Si yo pudiese obligarla
+a volverse desde aquí 320
+a Ocaña otra vez... Sí, sí...
+¿Qué interés tengo en matarla?)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¿Qué estará tramando ahora?)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(Así triunfo y no asesino.)
+Habéis hecho un desatino; 325
+volved a Ocaña, señora.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Conde-duque, deliráis.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Yo por vuestro bien lo anhelo.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Por mi bien! ¿No hay en el cielo
+rayos de Dios?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ ¿Qué intentáis? 330
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Ver al rey de cualquier modo.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+No lo lograréis acaso.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Quién ha de cerrarme el paso?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Yo, que aquí lo puedo todo.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Todo!... Por eso, por eso 335
+tanto en Ocaña he sufrido,
+que soportar no he podido
+de mi desventura el peso.
+Ved estos párpados rojos
+de llorar... ¿Os dan espanto?... 340
+Es que han vertido por llanto
+gotas de sangre mis ojos.
+Sola en Ocaña, ¡ay de mí!
+faltóme en tan negro afán
+hasta un pedazo de pan... 345
+¡Oh! ¡tuve hambre!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ ¡Vos!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Sí, sí,
+hombre sin Dios y sin ley,
+¡fuí de convento en convento
+mendigando mi sustento!...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Vos!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Yo!... La prima del rey. 350
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Yo ignoraba... De hoy en más
+os juro... Tomad un coche...
+Idos a Ocaña esta noche...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+A palacio iré quizás.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Duquesa, volved a Ocaña; 355
+ya entraréis, cuando haya espacio,
+como entrar debe en palacio
+toda una infanta de España.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Si no me abandona Dios,
+entraré mañana... ¡Oh! sí... 360
+Pronto el rey sabrá por mí...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Nada el rey sabrá por vos.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Sabrá por culpa de quién
+ya no es suyo el Portugal.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Vos... le gobernasteis mal... 365
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Y vos... le perdisteis bien.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pero...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Basta ya. Cobarde
+sois, aunque diestro adalid.
+Hoy comienza nuestra lid...
+¡Nunca para el bien fué tarde! 370
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Soy poderoso enemigo...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+No siempre triunfó el poder.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Sois una débil mujer.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Dios combatirá conmigo!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Es muy desigual el duelo. 375
+
+MARGARITA (con orgullo)
+
+¿Desigual?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Yo en esta guerra
+soy el poder de la tierra.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Yo la venganza del cielo.
+ (Con solemnidad y dirigiéndose al templo)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pues que nadie os acompaña,
+mi mano aceptad ahora. 380
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Sois... muy galán.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Soy, señora,
+español.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Judás de España. (Subiendo)
+
+OLIVARES (queriendo asirla de la mano)
+
+Si no lo habéis por enojo,
+mi mano hasta arriba...
+
+MARGARITA (desviando la mano con altivez y desprecio)
+
+ ¡Ah, no!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Quién ha de serviros?
+
+ESCENA IX
+
+MARGARITA, OLIVARES, QUEVEDO
+
+QUEVEDO (apareciendo entre las columnas y dando la mano a MARGARITA)
+
+ Yo. 385
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Gracias.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ (Él es... ¡Qué sonrojo!)
+Con gusto la mano os dan,
+don Francisco de Quevedo.
+ (MARGARITA sube las gradas. El conde-duque permanece abajo)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Decir lo propio no puedo
+yo a don Gaspar de Guzmán. 390
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Jamás competí con vos:
+vuestro ingenio y vuestra fama...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Ved que me espera esta dama.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+No os detengo.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Adiós.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Adiós.
+
+QUEVEDO (en el atrio)
+
+¿Qué anheláis en tanto apuro? 395
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Ver al rey.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ No encuentro modo...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Oh!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Mas le veréis con todo;
+por mi salvación lo juro.
+ (Condúcela al interior del templo)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Quien no convence asesina.
+No quiso a Ocaña volver... 400
+Hice cuanto pude hacer...
+lo demás lo hará Medina.
+
+
+ESCENA X
+
+OLIVARES y MEDINA, que aparece a la puerta de la casa al tiempo que
+aquél se dirige a paso largo a la calle del fondo
+
+MEDINA (en voz baja)
+
+¿Conde-duque?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ ¡Y bien!
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Lo siento;
+mas no la mato, señor.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Pues no dijisteis, traidor?... 405
+
+MEDINA
+
+De lo dicho me arrepiento.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Y qué causa?...
+
+MEDINA
+
+ No os asombre.
+Cuanto hablasteis escuché,
+de la dama el nombre sé,
+y está muy alto su nombre. 410
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Qué te importa?
+
+MEDINA
+
+ ¡Friolera!
+Su nombre, pardiez, me espanta;
+no se asesina a una infanta
+como a una mujer cualquiera.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Ya comprendo. Cosa es clara: 415
+si es que ha de ser bien vendida,
+cuanto más valga una vida
+debe venderse más cara....
+Golpes das a mi tesoro
+que han de agotarle quizás; 420
+pero, en fin, pues quieres más
+oro... te daré más oro.
+
+MEDINA
+
+No, no es oro lo que quiero.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+De escucharte me confundo.
+
+MEDINA
+
+Es que... no todo en el mundo 425
+se paga con el dinero.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+También te colmé de honores:
+en palacio, como iguales,
+te hablan damas principales
+y principales señores. 430
+Mira bien si bien te pago:
+del polvo te alcé a la altura,
+y hoy tu condición obscura
+tapa esa cruz de Santiago.
+ (Señalando la capa de MEDINA)
+
+MEDINA
+
+No niego vuestra largueza. 435
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pues a servirme... Es tu oficio.
+
+MEDINA
+
+Es que exigís un servicio
+en que arriesgo la cabeza.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Por mi vida!... Esa traición...
+
+MEDINA
+
+Os equivocáis, a fe, 440
+yo a la infanta mataré...
+mas con una condición.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Condición?... Nunca recibo...
+
+MEDINA
+
+Sin ella... ¡por Lucifer,
+que no mato a esa mujer, 445
+aunque me desuellen vivo!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(El infierno se desata
+contra mí esta noche.)
+
+MEDINA
+
+ En fin...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(¡Alma cobarde y ruin!)
+Di tu condición... y mata. 450
+
+MEDINA
+
+Para mi seguridad
+he escrito arriba un papel:
+falta vuestra firma en él;
+éste es el papel, firmad.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Qué dice?
+
+MEDINA (acercándose al farol)
+
+ Oíd.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ (¡Negra suerte!) 455
+Ya la tardanza me irrita.
+
+MEDINA (leyendo)
+
+«A la infanta Margarita
+darás hoy mismo la muerte.»
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Vive Dios!
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Firmad y mato.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(¡Maldito seas, amén!) 460
+¡Nunca!... A ese precio...
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Está bien;
+otro lo hará más barato.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Traidor... ¿Te vas?...
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Ya mi hazaña
+es inútil y me voy.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(¡Oh! ¡Si ella no muere hoy 465
+todo lo pierdo mañana!...)
+
+MEDINA
+
+Resolved.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Oye, Medina.
+(Voy a perder el juicio.)
+Aunque es duro el sacrificio...
+(¡Fuerza es conjurar mi ruina!) 470
+
+MEDINA
+
+Pues firmad.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Dame el papel. (Dáselo MEDINA)
+(¡Oh, su contacto me abrasa!)
+
+MEDINA
+
+Entrad, pues, en esta casa.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(No hay medio... ¡Trance cruel!)
+ (Dirigiéndose a la casa)
+
+MEDINA
+
+Luz os tengo en el portal 475
+y recado de escribir:
+conque...
+
+OLIVARES (entra)
+
+ (¡Tal mengua sufrir!)
+
+MEDINA (después de una pausa)
+
+No va el asunto muy mal.
+Conde-duque, ello por ello;
+ya somos quién para quién. 480
+ (OLIVARES sale y alarga el papel a MEDINA)
+ (Acercándose al farol y leyendo)
+«Olivares»; está bien.
+(Tiene su firma y su sello.)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Cuida bien que no se borre.
+
+MEDINA
+
+Pues ya que os hice firmar...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Falta sólo...
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Pues matar; 485
+y eso de mi cuenta corre.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡En parte segura!
+
+MEDINA
+
+ ¡Oh, sí!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Todo el puñal!
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Eso es.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Líbrame de ella! (Marchándose)
+
+ (Después...
+yo me libraré de ti.) 490
+
+(Vase por la calle del fondo)
+
+
+ESCENA XI
+
+MEDINA; después QUEVEDO
+
+MEDINA
+
+Ya te tengo bien seguro:
+partes el crimen conmigo...
+Partiré el poder contigo,
+por mi puñal te lo juro.
+Nuestra horrible comunión 495
+hoy con sangre he de sellar...
+Quiero mi ambición saciar,
+y alas diste a mi ambición.
+Pues bien... Allí se ve un bulto.
+ (Mirando al templo)
+Ya sin duda en San Martín 500
+dieron las tinieblas fin.
+Debo mantenerme oculto. (Se oculta en la izquierda)
+
+QUEVEDO (baja las gradas con preocupación)
+
+En palacio a la duquesa
+por mi fe de caballero
+prometí poner... Bien; pero 505
+¿cómo cumplir mi promesa?
+Con audacia... ¡Desatino!
+Por ardid... Ese Guzmán
+es tan cauteloso y tan...
+Dios me enseñará el camino. 510
+Con fuertes contrarios lucho...
+
+Pueden y... ¡También yo puedo!
+¿Quién me auxilia? ¿Quién? ¡Quevedo!
+ (Tocándose la frente y el pecho)
+Sí... sí. Los dos podéis mucho:
+grande el pensamiento aquí, 515
+y aquí grande el corazón;
+armas de victoria son,
+venzo de seguro... sí.
+Tal vez no... ¡Sí! ¡No!... Comienzo
+a dudar... ¡No! venceré. 520
+¿Cómo?... ¿Cómo?... No lo sé;
+pero... de seguro venzo. (Pausa)
+La duquesa en su posada
+me citó para las diez...
+Ya encontraremos tal vez 525
+puertas que la den entrada.
+¡Por Dios!... De cualquier modo,
+la ha de ver su majestad...
+pero antes debo... Es verdad;
+debe calcularse todo. 530
+ (Vase por el fondo después de dirigir una
+ mirada a las puertas del templo)
+
+MEDINA (observándole)
+
+Él es, y se aleja; bien.
+Gente sale. (Vuelve a esconderse)
+
+
+ESCENA XII
+
+MEDINA, oculto; MENDAÑA, CASTILLA y GRANA saliendo del templo
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Pues, señor,
+si a palacio vais, mejor:
+yo a palacio voy también.
+
+GRANA
+
+¿Y Quevedo?... En algún lance... 535
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Como esta también abierta,
+sin duda por la otra puerta
+fuése, detrás de un romance.
+
+GRANA
+
+Por allí las damas van.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Mejor, si se fué tras ellas. 540
+
+GRANA
+
+Húbolas, a fe, muy bellas.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Mejor sin el manto están.
+
+GRANA (a CASTILLA)
+
+Triste andáis vos.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ Sí, un acceso.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Nunca os encontré tan lacio.
+
+CASTILLA (de mal humor)
+
+En fin, ¿vamos a palacio? 545
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Lo mejor, sin duda, es eso.
+ (Vanse los tres por la derecha)
+
+MEDINA
+
+¿Qué escuché?... Por la otra puerta
+salen las damas... Quizás
+ella también... ¡Satanás
+túvola esta noche abierta! 550
+ (Con furor)
+Marchóse por ella... ¡Oh, sí!
+Todo se ha perdido...
+ (MARGARITA aparece a las puertas del templo)
+ ¡Ah!... ¡No!
+
+(MEDINA se oculta, MARGARITA baja lentamente las gradas y después
+se dirige, como hablando consigo misma, a la calle de la derecha)
+
+MARGARITA
+Sólo en él confío... Yo
+nada puedo hacer por mí.
+
+MEDINA
+
+(Llegó su vez al puñal.) 555
+
+MARGARITA
+No debo tener recelos...
+Hoy velan por mí los cielos
+y Dios me libra de mal. (Dirígese a la derecha)
+Ni se ve ni se oye nada.
+¡Qué soledad!... Tengo miedo.... 560
+ (Al volver MARGARITA la esquina MEDINA
+ se lanza detrás cautelosamente)
+Es tarde.... Tal vez Quevedo
+se impacienta en mi posada.
+Voy al punto... ¿Qué rumor?...
+ (Volviéndose a MEDINA, que estará a dos pasos)
+¡Un hombre!... ¡Atrás! ¿Qué queréis?
+
+MEDINA (haciendo un movimiento bajo la capa)
+Vengo de paz...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ No os lleguéis... 565
+
+MEDINA (lanzándose sobre ella puñal en mano)
+
+A mataros.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Ah!
+
+
+ESCENA XIII
+
+Dichos y QUEVEDO, que, saliendo de la calle de la derecha, sujeta por
+detrás el brazo de MEDINA que va a herir
+
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Traidor!
+ (Sujetándole el brazo con una mano)
+
+MEDINA (soltando el puñal)
+
+¡Jesucristo!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Por allí...
+ (Señalando a la duquesa la calle de la izquierda
+ y sacando a MEDINA la espada)
+Al punto os sigo... Alejaos.
+ (Volviéndose a MEDINA que va a escapar y sujetándole por su capa)
+¡Vos, no os alejéis... quedaos!
+ (QUEVEDO dirige otra vez los ojos a la calle por donde ha desaparecido
+MARGARITA, y en tanto MEDINA suelta la capa en sus manos)
+
+MEDINA
+
+¡Oh! ¡Me salvé! (Huyendo)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (Con voz de trueno y levantando la espada de MEDINA, que se queda inmóvil)
+ ¡Quieto ahí! 570
+ (QUEVEDO tira al suelo la capa de MEDINA y dice, arrojándole su espada)
+Ahora hierro contra hierro,
+nueva lid.
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Mas vuestro nombre...
+
+QUEVEDO (desenvainando)
+
+Si no lidiáis como un hombre,
+vais a morir como un perro.
+
+MEDINA
+
+Ved... que... el duelo... no es igual. 575
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+La espada tenéis desnuda.
+
+MEDINA
+
+Cierto...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Yo también.
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Sin duda.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+No hay ventaja pues.
+
+MEDINA
+
+ Sí tal.
+(¿Qué diré?...) Por de contado...
+yo estoy... sin capa...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Es muy cierto. 580
+
+MEDINA
+
+Conocéisme descubierto;
+yo no os conozco embozado.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Ya que tanto alambicáis,
+pronto una capa se quita.
+
+(QUEVEDO se desembaraza de la capa, y, al arrojarla, MEDINA
+saca una pistola, dispara y se afogona el tiro)
+
+MEDINA
+
+¡Ay de vos!... (Arrojando la pistola)
+ ¡Suerte maldita! 585
+
+QUEVEDO (Con frescura, poniéndose en guardia en tanto que MEDINA recobra
+su acero y se defiende en retirada)
+
+Mala pólvora gastáis.
+
+MEDINA
+
+¡Que el cielo os maldiga a vos!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Tiemblas!...
+
+MEDINA
+
+ ¡De rabia!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡De miedo!
+
+MEDINA (con espanto y retrocediendo)
+
+¡Oh, perdonadme!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ No puedo.
+
+MEDINA (con voz ahogada y cayendo dentro de la calle de la derecha)
+
+¡Ay!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Que te perdone Dios. 590
+ (Pausa)
+He matado a un hombre. Fué
+con razón... Sí... pero pesa
+el crimen... ¡Ah! la duquesa...
+por aquí la alcanzaré.
+
+(Toma la capa de MEDINA que está a sus pies y vase por el fondo. La
+escena queda un momento sola. Después aparece MARGARITA por
+la misma calle que tomó al marcharse)
+
+
+ESCENA ÚLTIMA
+
+MARGARITA, luego OLIVARES y ronda
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Nada se oye.... Tras de mí 595
+dijo que iría.... Un momento
+le aguardé junto al convento...
+¡Muerta vengo!
+
+VOZ (dentro)
+
+ Por aquí....
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Oh, la ronda!... (Quiere huir y vacila)
+
+ALCALDE (dentro)
+
+ Ved si acaso...
+Mas un hombre en esta esquina 600
+yace tendido.
+ (La calle de la izquierda aparece iluminada por la luz de una linterna)
+
+OLIVARES (dentro)
+
+ ¡Es Medina!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¡Oh, no puedo dar un paso!)
+
+OLIVARES (saliendo)
+
+¡Por Jesucristo en la cruz!
+
+ALCALDE (saliendo seguido de corchetes)
+
+Muerto.... Registradle.
+
+OLIVARES (deteniéndoles)
+
+ No. 604
+Debo registrarle yo. (Tropieza en la capa de QUEVEDO)
+Mas ¿qué es esto? ¡Aquí una luz! (Recoje la capa)
+Pronto, la luz necesito.
+
+ALCALDE (a los alguaciles y acercándose a OLIVARES)
+
+Ved que el matador se escapa.
+ (Los corchetes desaparecen por la derecha)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+De Quevedo es esta capa.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Muerto!... ¡Gran Dios! (Cae dentro)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Ese grito... 610
+
+ALCALDE (dentro)
+
+Una dama hay en el suelo.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Muerta?
+
+ALCALDE
+
+ Desmayada...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ A ver...
+(¡Oh, la infanta!) A esa mujer
+nadie la levante el velo.
+
+ALCALDE
+
+Bien, señor.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Una litera. 615
+
+ALCALDE (a los corchetes que vuelven por la derecha)
+
+Id por ella y no tardéis... (Vanse)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Dentro a la dama pondréis...
+mas sin mirarla siquiera.
+
+ALCALDE
+
+¿Después?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ (Mi triunfo es completo.)
+Conducidla en breve espacio... 620
+
+ALCALDE
+
+¿Dónde?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ A palacio.
+
+ALCALDE
+
+ ¿A palacio?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Por el caracol secreto.
+
+ALCALDE
+
+¿Quién la escolta?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Sólo vos.
+
+ALCALDE
+
+Mas vuecencia...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Iré detrás.
+ (Vase el alcalde por la izquierda)
+Duquesa, a palacio vas... 625
+desde allí... ¡sábelo Dios!
+
+ (Dirígese con precipitación hacia la calle
+ donde cayó MEDINA, y cae el telón)
+
+
+
+
+ACTO SEGUNDO
+
+
+Salón en el palacio del Buen Retiro. Puerta en el fondo que por la
+derecha conduce a las habitaciones de OLIVARES, y por la izquierda, a la
+capilla. A la derecha, en primer término, puerta que conduce a la
+escalera y corredores de palacio; a la izquierda, en primer término, la
+cámara de la reina; en segundo, la del rey. Es de noche. La escena está
+iluminada por un candelabro de cinco ramales colocado sobre un mueble de
+la época.
+
+
+ESCENA PRIMERA
+
+LA REINA, DOÑA INÉS
+
+REINA
+
+Doña Inés, todo es inútil:
+no hay en el mundo consuelo
+para mí; padezco mucho,
+porque inocente padezco. 630
+¡Infeliz! Otras que sufren,
+en su desventura, al menos,
+viven ¡ay! con esperanzas...
+Yo sin esperanzas muero.
+
+INÉS
+
+Mas...
+
+REINA
+
+ Con esperanzas locas, 635
+es verdad, soñé algún tiempo;
+se han desvanecido todas
+por mi mal, y ya no sueño.
+El dolor vela... ¡Mis horas
+son tan largas!... Yo las cuento 640
+por los ahogados latidos
+de este corazón enfermo.
+
+INÉS
+
+No os aflijáis...
+
+REINA
+
+ ¡Tantos días,
+tantas noches de tormento,
+siempre lo mismo!...
+
+INÉS
+
+ Señora... 645
+
+REINA
+
+Ni un instante de sosiego.
+Viene el día y no reposo,
+viene la noche y no duermo...
+Si he de descansar... ¡Dios mío,
+dame tu descanso eterno! 650
+
+INÉS
+
+¡Cómo! ¿Lloráis?
+
+REINA
+
+ No, no lloro...
+
+INÉS
+
+No me lo neguéis... No... Veo
+húmedos ya vuestros ojos...
+
+REINA
+
+Pronto los verás bien secos.
+
+INÉS
+
+¡Oh, qué horror!
+
+REINA
+
+ Padezco mucho, 655
+porque inocente padezco.
+
+INÉS
+
+Inocente... ¿Y quién lo duda?...
+
+REINA
+
+Felipe... mi esposo... miento:
+ya no es mi esposo... el rey...
+¡Rey para mí bien severo! 660
+
+INÉS
+
+Si él vuestro amor comprendiera...
+
+REINA
+
+Nunca podrá comprenderlo.
+Negras sospechas le turban;
+y aunque es generoso y bueno,
+para mí tan solo tiene 665
+rencor y amargo desprecio.
+Y es que ve sobre mi frente
+ese imaginario sello
+del crimen...
+
+INÉS
+
+ ¿No ve ese llanto?
+
+REINA
+
+Sus dudas le tienen ciego. 670
+
+INÉS
+
+Pues bien, habladle.
+
+REINA
+
+ Es inútil:
+sordo le tienen sus celos.
+
+INÉS
+
+Tal vez sus negras sospechas
+se disipen con el tiempo.
+
+REINA
+
+Imposible: cada día 675
+toman, Doña Inés, más cuerpo;
+y es natural: Olivares,
+por odios que no comprendo,
+le habla siempre de ese crimen.
+
+INÉS
+
+Pura invención del infierno. 680
+Vos sois la virtud, señora.
+
+REINA
+
+Mi virtud... es un misterio;
+tú solamente lo sabes.
+
+INÉS
+
+No, también lo sabe el cielo;
+esperad en él.
+
+REINA
+
+ Es tarde: 685
+para mi mal no hay remedio.
+
+INÉS
+
+Si al rey llegara ese escrito...
+
+REINA
+
+¿Cuál?
+
+INÉS
+
+ El del conde.
+
+REINA
+
+ ¡Silencio!
+No pronuncies ese nombre...
+¡Villamediana!... Su espectro 690
+me persigue noche y día,
+cual tenaz remordimiento.
+
+INÉS
+
+Sois inocente.
+
+REINA
+
+ Inocente...
+mas di causa, sin saberlo,
+a que el buen Villamediana 695
+fuese a puñaladas muerto.
+
+INÉS
+
+Celos del rey le mataron.
+
+REINA
+
+¿Quién dió pábulo a esos celos?
+
+INÉS
+
+Dicen que el conde os amaba...
+
+REINA
+
+Pues calló prudente y cuerdo; 700
+y si ese amor desdichado
+fué, como suponen, cierto,
+jamás la reina lo supo,
+y en la tumba está el secreto.
+
+INÉS
+
+No, que el conde moribundo 705
+se arrancó el puñal del pecho...
+
+REINA
+
+¡Calla!
+
+INÉS
+
+ Y con su propia sangre
+pudo escribir...
+
+REINA
+
+ ¡Tal recuerdo!...
+
+INÉS
+
+Puede salvaros... El conde
+dicen que escribió un momento 710
+con su sangre, y ese escrito
+se encontró sobre su cuerpo.
+
+REINA
+
+¡Desdichado!
+
+INÉS
+
+ Vos, señora,
+sois pura, y lo sabe el cielo.
+
+REINA
+
+¿Cómo hacer que el rey lo sepa? 715
+
+INÉS
+
+Con ese escrito sangriento.
+
+REINA
+
+¡Ay! En manos de Olivares
+cayó, según dicen... Cierto...
+ese papel ya no existe...
+le habrá consumido el fuego. 720
+
+INÉS
+
+¿Eso teméis?
+
+REINA
+
+ Olivares
+goza en mis padecimientos...
+¿Por qué me aborrece ese hombre?
+
+INÉS (mirando al fondo)
+
+Viene por aquí.
+
+REINA
+
+ Retirémonos.
+
+
+ESCENA II
+
+DICHAS y OLIVARES, que entra por el fondo
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Si mi presencia importuna... 725
+
+REINA
+
+No, Conde-duque... (Con violencia)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Sospecho
+que Su Majestad se aleja
+sólo porque yo me acerco.
+
+REINA
+
+Yo...
+
+INÉS
+
+ La reina está indispuesta.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Sabe Dios cuánto lo siento. 730
+
+REINA
+
+Gracias.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ (¿Sabrá la venida
+de la duquesa? Indaguemos.)
+
+REINA
+
+¿Cómo está el rey?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Siempre triste.
+
+REINA
+
+¡No le he visto en tanto tiempo!
+
+OLIVARES (mirando fijamente a LA REINA)
+
+La duquesa Margarita... 735
+
+REINA
+
+¡Aun sola en Ocaña!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Cierto.
+
+REINA
+
+Haced que vuelva a la corte;
+dadme ese dulce consuelo:
+que vuelva... ¡Me quiere tanto!...
+¡Tanto como yo la quiero! 740
+Prima del alma... ¡Es tan buena!...
+Sí, sí, que vuelva al momento....
+¡Oh! ¿Lo haréis?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Si no os enoja,
+de conversación mudemos. (Pausa)
+
+REINA
+
+Yo de otra os hablara... 745
+¿Me comprendéis?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Os comprendo.
+
+REINA
+
+Pues ese sangriento escrito...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Sangriento, es verdad, sangriento.
+
+REINA
+
+¿Conque existe pues?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Existe.
+
+REINA
+
+¿Lo tenéis vos?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Yo lo tengo; 750
+ya os lo repetí mil veces.
+
+REINA
+
+Entregádmelo.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ No puedo.
+
+REINA
+
+Prueba la inocencia mía....
+
+OLIVARES
+
+No del todo, según pienso.
+
+REINA (con altivez)
+
+¡Conde-duque!
+
+OLIVARES (con hipocresía)
+
+ Para mí 755
+sois de virtudes modelo;
+mas el rey...
+
+REINA
+
+ Dadle ese escrito.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Ya se lo daré a su tiempo.
+Para darle la triaca,
+dejad que apure el veneno: 760
+hoy las sospechas le acosan...
+ya se irán desvaneciendo,
+y entonces verá ese escrito
+ya sin prevención, y espero...
+
+REINA
+
+Es que van ya muchos años 765
+desde que vivo muriendo
+despreciada de mi esposo,
+que escucha vuestros consejos;
+y en palacio, viuda y sola,
+sufro su amargo desprecio, 770
+porque aduladores viles
+le han trastornado el cerebro.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Qué exaltación!... Ved, señora,
+que está débil en extremo
+vuestra salud...
+
+REINA
+
+ Conde-duque, 775
+no insultéis mi sufrimiento.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Vamos a otra cosa: el príncipe
+niño, sucesor del reino,
+por su edad...
+
+REINA
+
+ ¡Hijo del alma!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Ya del regazo materno 780
+debe separarse.
+
+REINA
+
+ ¡Oh, nunca!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Es el príncipe heredero,
+y ha resuelto el rey, su padre...
+¿lo oís?... el rey lo ha resuelto,
+darle servidumbre propia, 785
+libros, armas y maestros,
+y, por fin, cámara digna
+de su carácter excelso.
+
+REINA
+
+¡Me arrancáis el hijo mio!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Elegid el aposento 790
+que más le cuadre en palacio.
+
+REINA
+
+¡Gran Dios!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Yo os iré diciendo:
+el del jardín... el de Osorio...
+el de Ripalda... el de Lemus...
+el de Borja... el de la infanta... 795
+Elegid...
+
+REINA
+
+ Elijo... ¡el vuestro!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Cómo!
+
+REINA
+
+ Ocupáis en palacio
+el más ostentoso y regio;
+y entre príncipe y vasallo
+lo primero es lo primero. 800
+
+ (LA REINA se retira por la puerta de su
+ cámara; DOÑA INÉS la sigue después)
+
+INÉS
+
+¡Oh, respetadla!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ ¡Me arroja
+de aquí!... ¡Por Dios la prometo!...
+
+INÉS
+
+¡No!... ¿Qué intentáis?
+
+OLIVARES (reprimiéndose)
+
+ Nada, nada...
+buscar otro alojamiento.
+
+
+ESCENA III
+
+OLIVARES
+
+«Entre príncipe y vasallo 805
+lo primero es lo primero»,
+me dijo, y callé... Sí; pero
+yo para obrar siempre callo.
+¡Vasallo quien da la ley!...
+Reina, me hiciste un ultraje; 810
+que no rinde vasallaje
+quien hizo vasallo al rey.
+¿Qué genio malo te acosa?
+¿Cómo no te dice el alma
+que quien destruyó tu calma 815
+aun puede hacerte dichosa?
+Débil, incauta mujer...
+en tu desamparo triste
+nunca tan altiva fuiste...
+ni lo volverás a ser. 820
+Yo tu dicha tengo aquí:
+sí, se encierra en esta carta
+sangrienta que no se aparta
+un solo instante de mí. (Pausa)
+El rey te abrirá sus brazos 825
+si a ver llega tal escrito;
+mas primero el favorito
+se lo comerá en pedazos.
+
+Te amaba el rey con pasión;
+mas roto el lazo nupcial 830
+por mi astucia, sin rival
+reino yo en su corazón.
+Nadie mi secreto sabe:
+muerto Medina, segura
+guardará en la sepultura 835
+de este secreto la llave.
+¡Medina!... ¡Fatal recuerdo!...
+El papel que me arrancó
+¿dónde ese hombre lo guardó?
+Sí alguien da con él, me pierdo. 840
+La incertidumbre me abrasa....
+No; lo que pensé es verdad:
+para más seguridad
+lo guardó en aquella casa....
+Sí; mi presunción es cierta: 845
+el papel oculto está
+dentro de la casa... y ya
+sellé yo mismo la puerta.
+Y no sé por qué me apuro....
+Mañana busco el papel 850
+en la casa, y doy con él....
+Sí, doy con él, de seguro.
+Todo va bien: la duquesa
+se halla, pues, a buen recaudo,
+y yo por el fin me aplaudo 855
+de tan arriesgada empresa.
+
+(Mirando a la derecha)
+
+Pero allí viene Mendaña
+con el marqués y don Juan
+de Castilla; siempre van
+juntos en buena compaña. 860
+
+Y por Dios que el tal Castilla
+tiene lengua de escorpión,
+y hacia mí poca afición,
+según cuentos de la villa.
+
+
+ESCENA IV
+
+OLIVARES, MENDAÑA y CASTILLA por la derecha. Al entrar, MENDAÑA se
+dirige a OLIVARES con solicitud exagerada; GRANA le saluda afectuoso, y
+CASTILLA hace una leve inclinación y se queda algo separado del grupo
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Buenas noches, caballeros. 865
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Que el cielo os guarde, señor.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Solo me encontráis.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Mejor.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Mucho me contenta el veros.
+
+GRANA
+
+Gracias.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Honor singular.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Triste anduve todo el día. 870
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Mejor...
+
+GRANA (interrumpiéndole)
+
+ ¿Qué?
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Mejor sería
+que os fueseis a descansar.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+No, son tristezas...
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ (¡Historia!)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Y de divertirlas trato.
+Conque... hablemos, pues, un rato. 875
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Rato mejor... ni en la gloria.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+(Tanta humillación ya es mengua.)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Contadme algo de la villa
+los tres... los dos, pues Castilla
+se ha venido sin la lengua. 880
+ (CASTILLA se encoge de hombros desdeñosamente)
+¿Nada respondéis?
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ ¡Don Juan!...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿No me habláis?... Ved que yo os hablo.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+(Lleve tu palabra el diablo.)
+
+GRANA (aparte a Mendaña)
+
+Mucho me temo un desmán.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Al ministro...
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ (Fuera mengua.) 885
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Responded.
+
+GRANA
+
+ (Mal humor gasta.)
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Vos lo dijisteis, y basta:
+me he venido sin la lengua.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Ligero anduve en decir,
+y mi error he conocido. 890
+Con lengua os habéis venido...
+ (Con cólera)
+¡Sin lengua os debierais ir!
+ (OLIVARES se retira por el fondo con aire sombrío,
+ seguido de GRANA y MENDAÑA)
+
+
+ESCENA V
+
+CASTILLA; después QUEVEDO
+
+CASTILLA
+
+¡Vive Dios, me la arrancara
+yo mismo, juro a mi nombre,
+porque no ha lanzado a ese hombre 895
+cien insultos a la cara!
+ (QUEVEDO entra por la derecha en el mayor desorden y pasa junto
+ a CASTILLA sin reparar en él, yendo a quedarse en medio de la
+ escena como abismado en sus pensamientos)
+¡Por Cristo en la cruz, Quevedo!...
+A ocasión dichosa viene.
+
+Quiero hablarle... mas ¿qué tiene?
+Su rostro me infunde miedo. 900
+Desde aquí le he de observar.
+¡Qué temblor!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Pesquisa vana!
+ (Después de una pausa)
+¡Ruin inteligencia humana,
+no sabes adivinar! (Pausa)
+¡Oh, me pierdo en el abismo 905
+de mi propia confusión,
+y vacila mi razón!
+
+CASTILLA
+
+(¿Qué hablará consigo mismo?)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Ni en la calle ni en su casa
+dar he podido con ella.... 910
+¡Si... nació con mala estrella...
+tal vez... mi frente se abrasa!
+La libré de un asesino,
+y otro quizás tan cruel
+la mató... ¡Mísero de él 915
+si le encuentro en mi camino!
+¡Muerta!... No.... ¿Presa?... Quizás....
+Olivares... Él la esconde....
+Sí, sí... pero ¿en dónde, en dónde?
+Mas... razón, discurre más. 920
+Tú, de tan altas ideas
+creadora... ¡Oh, mente mía,
+si hallas luz, alumbra y guía!...
+Y si no... ¡maldita seas!
+
+
+ESCENA VI
+
+Dichos, MENDAÑA y GRANA que salen por el fondo derecha. CASTILLA,
+al verlos, les hace señas para que guarden silencio
+
+GRANA
+
+Calla... Quevedo...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Mejor... 925
+Nos dirá alguna letrilla.
+
+GRANA
+
+Señas nos hace Castilla.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Chist... al buen entendedor...
+ (MENDAÑA y GRANA durante esta escena hablan
+ como si quisieran no ser oídos)
+
+GRANA
+
+Entendido.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Claro está:
+Don Francisco en este instante 930
+busca un feroz consonante.
+Mejor.
+
+GRANA
+
+ Pues lo encontrará.
+No le interrumpamos, pues.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Eso es lo mejor.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ ¡Ahí quietos!
+
+MEDAÑA
+
+Lo menos quince sonetos 935
+nos guarda para después.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Nada: o salvarla o morir.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+(Es ya mucho meditar.)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Sí... sí, sí!
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ (Me hace temblar.)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Mucho nos hará reír. 940
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Gran Dios, un rayo de luz
+entre en esta oscuridad!
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Pero ¿qué miro?... Es verdad:
+brilla en su capa una cruz.
+
+GRANA
+
+Y es la de Santiago... Pero 945
+¿cuándo el hábito alcanzó?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Mis sienes estallan... ¡Oh!...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Hoy, sin duda, caballero
+le hizo Olivares y... Ved:
+ya con la cruz de Santiago, 950
+versos le dedica en pago
+de tan cumplida merced.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Terrible será la lucha!
+Bien; me sobra corazón.
+ (QUEVEDO, al decir esto, se vuelve y se encuentra entre MENDAÑA,
+ GRANA y CASTILLA, que han ido acercándose lentamente, aquéllos
+ por la izquierda y éste por la derecha)
+¿Quién es?
+
+MENDAÑA (con grito de júbilo)
+
+ ¡Letrilla... Atención! 955
+¿Tendrá gracia? (A QUEVEDO)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Mucha, mucha!
+Tiene tanta... que yo mismo
+crujo de risa...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Al instante
+recitádnosla. ¿Picante
+será?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Más que un sinapismo. 960
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¿La acabasteis?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Falta poco.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¿Sátira?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Contra los necios.
+¡Qué golpes les doy tan recios!
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Siempre alegre!
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ (O siempre loco.)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(¡Cuánto sufro!)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Nadie triste 965
+puede estar donde estéis vos.
+Hacednos reír...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (¡Ay, Dios!)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Con un chiste.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Con un chiste
+quisiera haceros reír,
+y reír hasta rabiar, 970
+y de risa reventar,
+y a risotadas morir.
+
+GRANA
+
+¡Qué ocurrencia!
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Me enamora;
+nadie las tiene mejores.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(¡Necios!)
+
+INÉS (saliendo)
+
+ La reina, señores. 975
+
+
+ESCENA VII
+
+Dichos, LA REINA y DOÑA INÉS, que salen de su cámara;
+después OLIVARES
+
+GRANA
+
+¿Dónde irá la reina ahora?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(¡Pobre mártir!)
+
+REINA (a INÉS)
+
+ _Pon mi silla._
+ (DOÑA INÉS se dirige a la capilla. Los cuatro
+ hacen una reverencia a LA REINA)
+ (Saludándoles)
+Adiós. Orando un momento,
+voy a ver el monumento
+que hoy adorna mi capilla. (Dirígese a ella) 980
+
+CASTILLA (a QUEVEDO)
+
+Siempre triste.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ A Dios le plugo.
+(¡Pobre víctima!)
+ (Reparando en OLIVARES, que sale por el fondo derecha y se dirige a LA REINA)
+ (¿Esto más?)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Señora. (Saludando)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (¡Siempre detrás
+de la víctima el verdugo!)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Vais a orar?
+
+REINA
+
+ ¿Es cosa extraña? 985
+La oración presta consuelo.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Iréis a pedir al cielo?...
+
+REINA (interrumpiendo)
+
+La felicidad de España.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Que eso le pidáis es llano,
+y eso le pedimos todos. 990
+
+REINA
+
+Sí, de diferentes modos.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Téngame Dios de su mano.)
+ (LA REINA se halla en el fondo, OLIVARES a su izquierda, y los
+ demás a su derecha, siendo MENDAÑA el más próximo)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Si oye Dios vuestra plegaria
+cuando oráis en la capilla;
+¡lástima que vuestra silla 995
+esté allí tan solitaria!
+
+REINA (con exaltación y dolor)
+
+Otra tuvo de igual porte
+en esa mansión bendita...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Quién?
+
+REINA (mirando a su alrededor y como sintiendo haber dicho demasiado)
+ La infanta Margarita...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Aparte a LA REINA y por detrás de MENDAÑA, volviendo
+a quedarse en su puesto inmediatamente)
+
+(Dicen que se halla en la corte.) 1000
+
+(LA REINA, al oir a QUEVEDO, vuelve la cabeza y se fija en MENDAÑA)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Cómo me mira!... ¡Mejor!
+
+REINA
+
+(¿Será cierto lo que oí?) (Agitada)
+¿Es cierto, es cierto?
+
+QUEVEDO (con énfasis e intención)
+
+ ¡Sí!
+ (Con indiferencia) ¡Sí!...
+silla tuvo...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Es un error.
+
+REINA
+
+(Mirando a QUEVEDO, el cual se ha quedado inmóvil,
+aparentando la mayor frialdad)
+
+(Comprendo... Quevedo ha sido 1005
+quien en voz baja...)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ La tuvo
+el rey....
+
+REINA
+
+ (A mi lado estuvo...
+él fué quien me habló al oído.)
+
+(LA REINA se dirige hacia la capilla con los ojos fijos en QUEVEDO.
+OLIVARES hace un movimiento como para detenerla)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Yo una súplica he de haceros.
+
+REINA
+
+Decid. (¿Cómo hablar a ese hombre?) 1010
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Os la dirijo en mi nombre
+y en el de estos caballeros:
+pues sola vais a marcharos
+hacia la capilla ahora,
+¿nos concederéis, señora, 1015
+el honor de acompañaros?
+
+REINA
+
+Pláceme la cortesía;
+y acepto. (Hablaré con él.)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pues todos hasta el cancel
+os haremos compañía. 1020
+ (MENDAÑA, GRANA y CASTILLA se inclinan en señal de asentimiento.
+ QUEVEDO se va apartando poco a poco, hasta quedarse junto a la
+ puerta de la derecha)
+
+REINA
+
+Gracias...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Es nuestro el honor.
+
+REINA
+
+(Me colocaré a su lado.)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Para hacer más señalado
+tan eminente favor
+un caballero escoged... 1025
+su mano hasta allí aceptad.
+
+REINA (con visibles muestras de alegría)
+
+Sí, sí....
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Dichoso en verdad
+el que obtenga tal merced.
+ (Todos se inclinan, menos QUEVEDO)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Ya están de orgullo beodos.)
+
+OLIVARES (mirando a LA REINA con aire de triunfo)
+
+(Hoy mi mano has de tocar.) 1030
+ (A LA REINA)
+A esa distinción sin par
+todos aspiramos... todos... (Inclínanse de nuevo)
+
+REINA (mirando alrededor)
+
+Todos... ¿menos vos, Quevedo?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Yo, incapaz de merecerla,
+nunca osara pretenderla. 1035
+
+REINA
+
+Pues a vos os la concedo.
+ (QUEVEDO se adelanta hacia LA REINA y todos le abren paso. Al llegar
+ a ella, que le alarga la mano, dobla una rodilla y besa)
+
+QUEVEDO (con emoción)
+
+Pues tal honra merecí,
+ (Levantándose y mudando de tono repentinamente)
+gracias, Olivares. ¡Oh,
+brava idea os ocurrió!...
+mas otra me ocurre a mí: 1040
+sin pajes la reina está,
+sola viene... y es costumbre
+que su camino se alumbre
+cuando a la capilla va...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Esa observación... (Con disgusto)
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ Es cierta. 1045
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues cual buenos servidores,
+justo es que todos, señores,
+la alumbréis hasta la puerta.
+Luces... (Señalando al candelabro)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Ocurrencia sabia.
+ (Tomando una luz de las cinco que habrá en el candelabro, acción que
+ imitan los demás, menos OLIVARES, que mira a QUEVEDO con
+ asombro)
+
+QUEVEDO (con frialdad a OLIVARES)
+
+Otra queda para vos; 1050
+y si os place, aun quedan dos....
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Bien contáis.
+ (Tomando furioso y con mano trémula una de las dos luces
+ que quedan, como dominado por la mirada de QUEVEDO)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (Tiembla de rabia.)
+
+REINA
+
+Gracias, gracias.
+ (A OLIVARES, MENDAÑA, CASTILLA y GRANA que la rodean
+ con las luces, pero sin dejar de mirar a QUEVEDO)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Bien, por Dios!
+Alumbrad... Sois, caballeros,
+excelentes... (Inclínanse MENDAÑA, GRANA y CASTILLA)
+ candeleros.... 1055
+ (A OLIVARES)
+Y el más excelente... vos.
+ (OLIVARES se inclina también con despecho. QUEVEDO, que ha dado
+ la mano a LA REINA, se dirige a la capilla entre los cuatro
+ alumbradores, que se colocan a la puerta para darles paso, entrando
+ también después. Al desaparecer la comitiva se presenta el CAPITÁN
+ por la derecha haciéndose cruces)
+
+
+ESCENA VIII
+
+CAPITÁN; luego los mismos, menos LA REINA
+
+CAPITÁN (después de seguirlos con la vista)
+
+¿Qué es esto? ¡Vaya un retablo!
+Todos van en procesión...
+Cosas de Quevedo son....
+Si es el mismísimo diablo. 1060
+Cuando empieza... ¡Qué pedrisco!
+Cada letra es una pulla.
+Y Olivares... pues... de bulla:
+le divierte don Francisco.
+ (Viendo salir a OLIVARES que vuelve; después aparecen GRANA,
+ MENDAÑA y CASTILLA, que traen en medio a QUEVEDO)
+Hola, bien; me haré presente. 1065
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Capitán, estad alerta
+a mi voz, junto a esa puerta. (Señalando la derecha)
+
+CAPITÁN
+
+¿Solo?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ No, con vuestra gente. (Vase el CAPITÁN)
+Caro pagará el desmán.
+
+GRANA (a QUEVEDO)
+
+Recibid mi parabién. 1070
+
+MENDAÑA (id.)
+
+De Santiago... Bien, muy bien.
+
+QUEVEDO (preocupado)
+
+¿Qué habrá dicho al capitán?
+
+OLIVARES (a QUEVEDO)
+
+Bien tocáis vuestros registros.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Nunca me voy por las ramas.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Muy bien os va con las damas. 1075
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Y mejor con los ministros.
+
+MENDAÑA (yendo a señalar la cruz que lleva QUEVEDO en la capa)
+
+Dígalo si no...
+
+GRANA (a QUEVEDO)
+
+ Contento
+estaréis.... Os da valía.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(No los comprendo, a fe mía.)
+ (Mira alternativamente a los dos)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Os la columbré al momento. 1080
+
+GRANA
+
+La merecéis.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ ¿Quién lo ignora?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Maldito si entiendo nada.)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Y os está que ni pintada.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Menos los entiendo ahora.)
+
+GRANA
+
+El talento es una mina. 1085
+ (Poniendo en el hombro la mano a QUEVEDO, que le mira con asombro)
+
+MENDAÑA (a OLIVARES)
+
+Mirad... Ya puesta la tiene.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Cómo! (Esa cruz... ¡Oh, se viene
+con la capa de Medina!)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(¡Me ahogo!)
+ (Adelantándose del grupo con marcado fastidio)
+
+OLIVARES (aparte a GRANA, que se dirige a hablar a QUEVEDO)
+
+¡Callad!
+ (Id. a MENDAÑA)
+¡Silencio!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Pues a nacer hallas prontos 1090
+con tal perfección los tontos,
+yo, gran Dios, te reverencio.)
+
+MENDAÑA (a OLIVARES)
+
+Ya le tendréis que pedir
+versos por tan gran favor....
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Tengo que hablarle....
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Mejor, 1095
+mejor... Os hará reír.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pronto acabamos, a fe.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Esperanzas... y temores.)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+A mi habitación, señores;
+yo mismo os conduciré. 1100
+ (Dirígense mirando a QUEVEDO al marchar)
+(No saldrás bien de este apuro.)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+A solas tengo que hablaros. (Con tono brusco)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Ya pensaba yo en buscaros.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Yo saldré a puerto seguro...
+si no muero entre las olas....) 1105
+ (A OLIVARES que aun permanece observándole desde la puerta)
+Os aguardo aquí.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Está bien;
+vuelvo al punto; yo también
+tengo que hablaros a solas. (Entra en su cámara)
+
+
+ESCENA IX
+
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Dios nos clava frente a frente;
+para leer en lo escondido 1110
+de ese corazón podrido,
+Dios alumbrará mi mente.
+Valedor de la duquesa,
+debo salvarla o morir...
+Lo primero es inquirir 1115
+en dónde la tiene presa.
+¡Presa! ¿Quién sabe?... Es verdad;
+en su vengativa saña
+tal vez la condujo a Ocaña...
+¡O la hundió en la eternidad! 1120
+No, no... tan negro delito
+deja helado el corazón...
+¿Cabe en la ruin ambición
+de ese torpe favorito?
+La dió muerte... ¡Ah, de los dos 1125
+uno también morirá!
+Él... y muy pronto será...
+¡Mísero de él! ¡Si, gran Dios,
+si he de morir a las penas
+de tu infierno condenado, 1130
+muera rojo y remojado
+con la sangre de sus venas!
+
+(Apóyase convulsivamente en el mueble donde se halla el candelabro,
+en el cual habrá ya una luz solamente, y aparece OLIVARES)
+
+
+ESCENA X
+
+QUEVEDO, OLIVARES
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(Hoy me le entrega esa cruz.) (Se acerca lentamente)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Oh!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ (Pero le siento hablar.)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Es necesario matar!... 1135
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Matar! (A QUEVEDO con extrañeza)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Sí, matar la luz.
+ (Soplando inmediatamente la luz y con acento de
+ indiferencia. La escena queda en tinieblas)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Luces!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (Bien, me importa poco;
+ya mi rostro está sereno....
+Oíste y no viste.... Bueno.) (Entran luces)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(O es muy hábil o muy loco.) 1140
+Ya con luces...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Sí... se ve;
+(pero no mi turbación.)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Ocurrencias vuestras son;
+¿matar la luz... para qué?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Según las reglas seguras 1145
+de un autor que de eso trata,
+siempre que la luz se mata
+es... para quedarse a oscuras.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Esta noche estáis de humor.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Sí, porque volcó mi coche. 1150
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Noto además que esta noche,
+Quevedo, estáis matador.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Sí; lo dice por Medina.)
+¿Ya sabéis?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ ¿Qué duda cabe?
+Todo en el mundo se sabe. 1155
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues... y si no, se adivina.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Vos, según llego a saber,
+sois de un hombre el asesino.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Y por lo que yo adivino,
+vos lo sois de una mujer. 1160
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Vuestras pruebas ¿dónde están?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Y las vuestras?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Quedo, quedo;
+dadme las vuestras, Quevedo.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Dadme las vuestras, Guzmán.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Y Medina?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¿Y la duquesa? 1165
+
+OLIVARES
+
+No nos entendemos pues.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Lástima, lástima es.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Mucho, por cierto, me pesa.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Tengo pruebas, y no en vano.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pues las tendremos los dos. 1170
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Y dónde tenéislas vos?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Yo? Las tengo ya en mi mano.
+ (Poniéndola sobre la cruz de QUEVEDO)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+La conserváis tan cerrada...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Vaya, al seguir una pista,
+como sois corto de vista, 1175
+nunca reparáis en nada.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Qué queréis decir?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Os digo
+que un hombre por vos fué muerto.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Me dais pruebas?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Os lo advierto;
+pruebas os daré y castigo. 1180
+ (QUEVEDO se encoge de hombros)
+Escuchad con atención:
+siempre que es muerto un cristiano
+al golpe de ajena mano,
+sin hacer su confesión,
+los vivos que en la infinita 1185
+bondad esperan con fe,
+donde el hombre muerto fué
+clavan una cruz bendita.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Si no halláis mejores modos
+de probar...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Y esa cruz santa 1190
+lúgubre allí se levanta
+para repetir a todos,
+por tragedia tan cruel,
+del cielo invocando el nombre:
+«¡Aquí mataron a un hombre... 1195
+rogad al cielo por él!»
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+A mi comprensión se escapa
+vuestra idea, y... dadme luz,
+porque esa cruz...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Esa cruz...
+ (Pónesele delante de los ojos)
+la lleváis en vuestra capa. 1200
+
+QUEVEDO (asiendo la capa con ambas manos)
+
+¿Qué miro? ¡Gran Dios!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ El dedo
+de Dios sigue al que asesina.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Es la capa de Medina!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Hoy le asesinó Quevedo! (Pausa)
+Pues ya mis pruebas os di, 1205
+a dar mis órdenes voy.
+¡Capitán!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Perdido estoy!
+
+
+ESCENA XI
+
+Dichos y CASTILLA, MENDAÑA; GRANA por el fondo; después CAPITÁN con
+guardia por la derecha
+
+CASTILLA (entrando)
+
+¿Qué diablos sucede aquí?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Llegáis a tiempo, señores.
+ (Dirígese a la puerta de la derecha con impaciencia. Los otros
+ tres se miran con extrañeza y encogiéndose de hombros)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(¡Su capa!... ¡Cambio funesto!... 1210
+Me ha perdido.... Mas ¿qué es esto?
+En sus pliegues interiores... (Palpándola con afán)
+tiene un bolsillo... un papel.
+Veamos...) (Le saca y lee)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Mucha atención:
+Capitán, sin dilación 1215
+prended a Quevedo.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (Volviéndose de improviso y señalando a OLIVARES con la mano derecha,
+ mientras lee en voz alta el papel que tiene en la izquierda)
+ ¡A él!... (Lee)
+«A la infanta Margarita
+darás hoy mismo...»
+
+OLIVARES (lanzándose a él)
+
+ ¡Oh, callad!
+
+QUEVEDO (a OLIVARES completando la oración)
+
+«La muerte.»
+
+OLIVARES (al CAPITÁN)
+
+ Vos, apartad.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Y firmáis! (Señalando el papel)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ (¡Carta maldita!) 1220
+
+GRANA
+
+(Cosas se ven singulares.)
+
+CASTILLA (abalanzándose a QUEVEDO)
+
+¡Quevedo!...
+
+MENDAÑA (id. a OLIVARES)
+
+ ¡Señor!...
+
+QUEVEDO (deteniéndole)
+
+ Templanza.
+¿Suponéis?... Todo fué chanza...
+chanza del buen Olivares....
+ (A los demás)
+Vos... ya lo veis... tiene días... 1225
+ (Llegándose de nuevo a OLIVARES y aparte, como lastimándose)
+Casualidades siniestras...
+por buscar las pruebas vuestras
+fuisteis a dar con las mías.
+ (MENDAÑA, CASTILLA y GRANA en el fondo hablan acaloradamente)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Qué intentáis?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Soy temerario.
+¿Y la infanta?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Vive.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Oh! 1230
+¿Vive? (Señal afirmativa de OLIVARES)
+ A tiempo maté yo
+a vuestro infernal sicario;
+mas otro tal vez...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Lo juro:
+vive en palacio y está
+presa y oculta... No, ya 1235
+según mandé... de seguro
+se la habrán llevado...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¿A dónde?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+A Ocaña... No, no... de cierto
+sabrá el capitán...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Si ha muerto,
+de ella este papel responde. 1240
+Mañana... ¡Ahora!
+ (Volviéndose a los demás)
+ ¡Escuchad!
+
+OLIVARES (deteniendo a QUEVEDO con terror)
+
+(¡Vive, sí!)
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ (¿Qué podrá ser?)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(¡Vive!)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ ¿Nos vais a leer?...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Nada... un soneto...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Es verdad.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Mejor, me place la idea. 1245
+
+CASTILLA (aparte a GRANA)
+
+Yo me pierdo en conjeturas;
+¿qué es esto?
+
+GRANA (id.)
+
+ Yo estoy a oscuras.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Que se lea, que se lea.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Lo que me pedís negué
+a Olivares ya, y por eso 1250
+trató de ponerme preso...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Chanza...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Muy pesada, a fe.
+Y yo, por tomar venganza,
+mi soneto he de guardar.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+No nos deis ese pesar. 1255
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Es que me asustó la chanza.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Por ella os pido perdón.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Pues dad principio, Quevedo;
+vamos, conceded...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Concedo...
+mas con una condición: 1260
+pues que a prenderme ha venido,
+aunque en chanza, el capitán,
+con los que a su mando van,
+chanza también, muy erguido
+marchará luego ante mí, 1265
+dándome guardia de honor.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Brava ocurrencia.
+
+CAPITÁN (a OLIVARES)
+
+ ¿Señor...?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Capitán, hacedlo así.
+
+QUEVEDO (al CAPITÁN)
+
+¿Lo entendéis?... Y con buen modo
+que me obedezcáis espero 1270
+en todo y por todo...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Pero...
+
+QUEVEDO (desdoblando el papel con aire amenazante)
+
+Conde-duque...
+
+OLIVARES (al CAPITÁN)
+
+ En todo, en todo.
+
+CAPITÁN (a QUEVEDO)
+
+Fiel obediencia os prometo.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues oíd.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Al punto, al punto.
+
+QUEVEDO (leyendo)
+
+«A... una... nariz.»
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Bravo asunto. 1275
+
+QUEVEDO (aparte a OLIVARES)
+
+Y escuchadme bien. (A todos, leyendo)
+
+ «Soneto.»
+
+(QUEVEDO se acerca a la luz al lado de OLIVARES; los demás permanecen
+a cierta distancia. QUEVEDO leerá con lentitud y voz sonora los ocho
+versos del conocido soneto _A Una Nariz_, que están subrayados,
+diciendo a OLIVARES aparte y con el tono conveniente los intercalados
+en los dos cuartetos. Los otros, y en particular MENDAÑA,
+escuchan la lectura con gran contentamiento)
+
+_Érase un hombre a una nariz pegado_;
+Como al rey el privado que aquí priva.
+_Érase una nariz superlativa_;
+Como la audacia loca del privado. 1280
+_Érase una nariz sayón y escriba_;
+Estáis verde... amarillo... jaspeado.
+_Érase un peje-espada muy barbado_;
+Os veis como un ratón en una criba.
+_Era un reloj de sol mal encarado_; 1285
+Como vos al tragar tanta saliva.
+_Érase una alquitara pensativa_;
+De ver a un favorito... alquitarado.
+_Érase un elefante boca arriba_;
+Como están hoy las cosas del estado. 1290
+_Era Ovidio Nasón más narizado_.
+
+ (En tono amenazante)
+
+(¡Rogad al cielo que la infanta viva!)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(¡Vive!)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (Si ha muerto, ¡ay de vos!)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Proseguid...
+
+QUEVEDO (volviéndose a los demás de improviso)
+
+ Torpe y confusa
+mi cabeza, estoy sin musa. 1295
+
+(En actitud y tono militar)
+
+¡Capitán, en marcha!... ¡Adiós!
+
+ (A los demás con majestad grotesca al retirarse.
+ Vase por la derecha con la guardia)
+
+
+ESCENA XII
+
+OLIVARES, MENDAÑA, CASTILLA y GRANA
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Siempre alegre don Francisco.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(¡Maldito de Dios su nombre!)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Y al fin no acabó el soneto...
+voto a Polimnia y Caliope... 1300
+
+GRANA (mirando a la derecha)
+
+Ya atraviesa con su guardia
+los últimos corredores.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Dejarnos así... por vida!...
+Si es un torbellino ese hombre.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(No me burlará mañana 1305
+como me burló esta noche.)
+
+GRANA
+
+Sólo ocho versos nos dijo.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Y un soneto... da catorce.
+
+GRANA (a CASTILLA)
+
+Vos... ¿nada habláis?
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ Nada, nada.
+No quiero que me la corten. 1310
+ (Señalando la lengua)
+
+GRANA
+
+Callad... prudencia.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ A Olivares
+quizás la musa le sople
+también, y... mejor; miradle,
+por su actitud se conoce:
+quiere dar fin al soneto, 1315
+y discurre el estrambote.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(¡Mañana será otro día!)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Silencio, atención, señores.
+
+GRANA
+
+Hacia aquí la reina sale.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(Largas son sus oraciones.) 1320
+
+
+ESCENA XIII
+
+Dichos y LA REINA, que sale de la capilla apoyándose en DOÑA INÉS
+
+REINA
+
+Es verdad, me siento débil,
+débil, cual nunca, esta noche.
+ (Reparando en ellos)
+¿Aun estáis aquí?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Señora,
+nuestro deber nos lo impone.
+Antes con luces servimos 1325
+a la reina, y como entonces,
+bien que sin luces, estamos
+prontos a cumplir sus órdenes.
+ (Todos se inclinan. LA REINA escucha con distracción)
+Como veis, solo, señora,
+de entre tantos servidores 1330
+falta vuestro caballero...
+y, por Dios, que anduvo torpe,
+que el honor de dar la mano
+a una reina hermosa y joven
+ni un galán lo cede nunca, 1335
+ni jamás lo olvida un noble.
+
+REINA
+
+Basta ya... basta, Olivares.
+
+INÉS
+
+Es hora de que repose
+vuesa Majestad.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Pues disteis
+fin a vuestras devociones 1340
+debéis descansar....
+
+REINA
+
+ Es cierto.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Tristes serán vuestras noches!
+
+REINA (sin oírle)
+
+(¡Oh, la infanta Margarita
+dicen que vino a la corte!...)
+ (Dirigiéndose a su cámara)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Permitidnos...
+
+REINA
+
+ No, quedaos. 1345
+ (Todos se inclinan. MENDAÑA, CASTILLA y GRANA hablan para sí;
+ OLIVARES contempla con una sonrisa a LA REINA, que se encamina
+ lentamente a su cámara)
+(¿Quién la detiene y en dónde?
+¡Cuánto consuelo hallarían
+juntos nuestros corazones!...
+Margarita... ¡alma sublime!...
+¡Cuál mis acerbos dolores 1350
+calmaría! Él nos separa...
+¡Dios su maldad le perdone!)
+
+
+ESCENA ÚLTIMA
+
+Dichos y QUEVEDO; después MARGARITA y guardia
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Hoy de vuesa Majestad
+una audiencia solicita...
+
+REINA
+
+¿Quién?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ La infanta Margarita. 1355
+ (Introduciéndola de la mano seguida de la guardia)
+
+REINA
+
+¡Gran Dios! (Precipitándose en sus brazos)
+
+MARGARITA (id.)
+
+ ¡Qué felicidad!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(¡Ella!... ¡Aun estaba en palacio!)
+
+REINA
+
+¡Soy feliz!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Te he vuelto a ver!...
+
+REINA
+
+Pero ¿cómo, cómo?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Ayer...
+ (Reparando en OLIVARES)
+Todo lo sabrás despacio. 1360
+ (LA REINA conducida por MARGARITA se dirige a su cámara por entre
+ los guardias, que les abren paso, y seguidas de MENDAÑA, CASTILLA
+ y GRANA, que las acompañan hasta la puerta)
+
+QUEVEDO (a OLIVARES con sarcasmo)
+
+Prevenidla con afán
+flores, festejos y galas...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(Yo le cortaré las alas.)
+(¡Oh, su prisión!...) ¡Capitán!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pajes prevenidla y coches. 1365
+
+OLIVARES (al CAPITÁN)
+
+¡Llevad!...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Soneto.
+ (Desdoblando un papel y con el aire más natural)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ (¡Oh, me espanta!)
+
+QUEVEDO (al CAPITÁN)
+
+Guardia de honor a la infanta.
+Conde-duque, buenas noches.
+
+Fin del Acto Segundo
+
+
+
+
+ACTO TERCERO
+
+La decoración del anterior
+
+
+ESCENA PRIMERA
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Un mes ya!... Tan largo plazo
+para jornada tan corta... 1370
+La tardanza de Quevedo
+me desconcierta y me asombra.
+¿Qué podría ser? El camino
+desde Madrid a Lisboa
+no es hoy seguro, y acaso... 1375
+Vagas sospechas me acosan:
+vengativo el conde-duque,
+nunca olvida ni perdona;
+y si a su fin le conducen,
+poco los medios le importan. 1380
+En el mundo hay asesinos
+que con el oro se compran...
+Olivares es malvado...
+Tal vez Quevedo a estas horas...
+¡Oh, Dios mío!... Dios lo sabe. 1385
+Nunca fuí supersticiosa;
+pero esta idea terrible
+es un dogal que me ahoga.
+Varonil y fuerte, nunca
+temblé de terror... y ahora 1390
+al pensar en él ¡ay! tiemblo
+como en el árbol la hoja...
+¿Qué pasa por mí?... ¡Quevedo...
+siempre fijo en mi memoria!
+¡Oh, la gratitud... sin duda!... 1395
+No puede ser otra cosa...
+¡Cierto! La altiva duquesa
+Margarita de Saboya
+que no conoció en su vida
+más voluntad que la propia; 1400
+la que nunca dominada
+siempre fué dominadora,
+con su voluntad de hierro
+y su corazón de roca;
+esa mujer... soberana, 1405
+con su altivez por corona,
+siempre es la misma, la misma...
+No... delante de él es otra...
+otra, sí.... Nadie en el mundo
+logró lo que ese hombre logra.... 1410
+Quevedo ¡ay, Dios! me fascina....
+Jamás... ¿Qué digo? ¡Estoy loca!
+No, delante de Quevedo
+mis mejillas se coloran
+y mis ojos se humedecen 1415
+y mi mente se trastorna...
+¡Sí... siempre al sentir sus pasos
+temblé!... como tiemblo ahora
+sin sentirlos... sin sentirlos...
+No... los siento en mi memoria. 1420
+
+
+ESCENA II
+
+MARGARITA y LA REINA, que sale de su cámara
+
+REINA
+
+Margarita...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Oh! ¿Me buscabas?
+
+REINA
+
+Sí, y el hallarte tan sola
+me sorprende. ¡Tú llorando!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Cómo!
+
+REINA
+
+ ¡Tú que nunca lloras!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Qué ilusión!... Tú lo dijiste: 1425
+nunca del llanto las gotas
+por mis mejillas corrieron.
+
+REINA
+
+¡Plegue a Dios que nunca corran!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Yo así lo espero... las lágrimas
+siempre son infructuosas. 1430
+
+REINA
+
+El llanto calma las penas.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+El valor triunfa de todas.
+En eso mismo pensaba
+cuando llegaste. La hora
+de vencer a la desgracia 1435
+se acerca para nosotras.
+
+REINA
+
+Loca esperanza.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¿Qué dices?
+Si hoy mismo Quevedo torna,
+para triunfar de Olivares,
+armas traerá de Lisboa. 1440
+
+REINA
+
+Esas armas...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Son seguras,
+y han de darnos la victoria,
+descubriendo del ministro
+las maquinaciones sordas.
+Bien lo sabes: Portugal, 1445
+antes provincia española,
+se hizo reino independiente,
+siendo yo gobernadora;
+que no fué por culpa mía
+bien en mis despachos consta. 1450
+Con tiempo avisé el peligro
+y pedí dinero y tropas;
+pero sordo el conde-duque
+a mis peticiones todas,
+juzgó sueños mis temores, 1455
+me creyó débil o loca.
+Pues bien, ya que la experiencia,
+aunque por mi mal, me abona,
+por las cartas de Olivares,
+llenas para el rey de mofa, 1460
+sabrá el rey que ese ministro
+con escándalo de Europa,
+necio o traidor, ha vendido
+un joyel de su corona.
+Quevedo hallará esas cartas 1465
+que ocultas dejé en Lisboa.
+¡Una sola puede darnos
+venganza terrible y pronta!
+
+REINA
+
+Me haces temblar.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ El malvado,
+por dar fin a sus zozobras, 1470
+quiso asesinarme...
+
+REINA
+
+ ¡Cielos!...
+no recuerdes esa historia.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Sí, y a no ser por Quevedo,
+que brotó de entre la sombra,
+el sicario de Olivares... 1475
+
+REINA
+¿Y a qué recordarlo ahora?
+Vives y estás a mi lado...
+Ya Olivares no lo estorba...
+¡Oh! tal vez arrepentido
+ya de su acción se sonroja... 1480
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Le conoces mal.
+
+REINA
+
+ Con todo,
+de ello responden sus obras.
+El es el rey... y en palacio
+desde aquella noche moras,
+y hace un mes que el de Olivares 1485
+te consagra sus lisonjas,
+te distingue...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Y, sin embargo,
+en su corazón me odia.
+
+REINA
+
+¿Y cómo explicar?...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Quevedo,
+al partir para Lisboa, 1490
+enseñándole un papel,
+le dijo con risa irónica:
+«Pues con vos queda la infanta
+Margarita de Saboya,
+conmigo va este soneto 1495
+para que de ella responda.»
+
+REINA
+
+No comprendo...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ De mi vida
+él responde con la propia;
+tiene las manos atadas,
+y si, al fin, Quevedo torna, 1500
+la ruina del favorito
+será inevitable y pronta.
+
+REINA
+
+¿Qué intentas?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Salvar a España
+de un yugo que la deshonra,
+comprar también el castigo 1505
+del tirano...
+
+REINA
+
+ Si es a costa
+de mi eterna desventura,
+caro su castigo compras.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Oh! ¿Qué dices?
+
+REINA
+
+ La esperanza
+jamás al triste abandona, 1510
+y yo en mi delirio a veces
+aun espero ser dichosa.
+Solo hay un medio: Olivares
+con intención cautelosa
+guarda ese escrito sangriento 1515
+en que mi inocencia consta...
+Y en mí tomará venganza
+si tú su rencor provocas,
+aniquilando ese escrito,
+que es ¡ay! mi esperanza sola. 1520
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Calla, calla!
+
+REINA
+
+ Margarita,
+tú, tan buena y generosa,
+no harás uso de tus armas
+si han de volverse en mi contra.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Qué dices? España sufre... 1525
+Dios en mis manos coloca
+su remedio... Antes que todo
+es esta nación heroica.
+
+REINA
+
+¿Y tu amor?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ El mismo siempre.
+
+REINA
+
+¡Salva mi vida y mi honra! 1530
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Después...
+
+REINA
+
+ ¡Ay, será muy tarde!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¡Gran Dios, mis fuerzas se agotan!
+¡No puedo más!)
+
+REINA
+
+ Margarita,
+tú serás mi salvadora.
+El castigo de Olivares 1535
+puede aplazarse y...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¿Qué importa
+si en tanto ese hombre...? ...¡Imposible!
+La corte y España toda
+sufren su tirano yugo
+y sus desafueros lloran. 1540
+
+REINA
+
+¡Hombre fatal!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Por su causa
+la España, terror de Europa
+y del mundo en otro tiempo,
+duerme en el olvido ahora.
+Por él lloramos perdidas 1545
+tantas conquistas gloriosas,
+unas al hierro entregadas,
+y al oro vendidas otras.
+Más de trescientos navíos
+tragaron del mar las olas 1550
+por él, y por él perdimos
+a Esthin, Wiranzan y Dola,
+y a más las Islas Terceras,
+y el Ducado de Borgoña
+y el Brasil y el Rosellón, 1555
+y Ormuz, Pernambuco y Hoa!...
+Y no ha mucho Portugal,
+siendo yo gobernadora,
+por su rey al de Braganza
+coronó en Villaviciosa... 1560
+
+REINA
+
+¡Calla! (Mirando hacia la derecha)
+
+
+ESCENA III
+
+Dichas y OLIVARES, MENDAÑA, GRANA y CASTILLA, que entran muy engolfados
+en su conversación por la derecha. Al verlos LA REINA se va retirando
+hacia su cámara acompañada de MARGARITA
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Sabré quién ha sido.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Mejor, morirá en la horca!
+
+REINA
+
+(Piénsalo bien.)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Hasta luego.
+ (LA REINA entra en su cámara; MARGARITA
+ la contempla con expresión de ternura)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Fué sólo un susto.
+
+GRANA
+
+ No importa.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Mejor, mejor.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Mas la infanta... 1565
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¿La infanta?... Mejor.
+ (Todos saludan a MARGARITA, que va acercándose hacia ellos)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Señora...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Pálido estáis, Conde-duque.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+No es para menos la cosa.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Pues ¿qué ha habido?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Nada, nada.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Un disparo a quemarropa! 1570
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Bien, no me ha herido.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Mejor.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Conde-duque, estoy absorta.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+No nos ocupemos de ello. (A los tres)
+Sobre asuntos de más monta
+tengo que hablar a su alteza; 1575
+conque... dejadnos a solas....
+Hasta después. (Saludándolos)
+ (Los tres se inclinan y vanse por la derecha)
+
+MENDAÑA (marchándose)
+
+ Despacito
+voy a examinar ahora
+el estrago que las balas
+hicieron en su carroza. 1580
+
+
+ESCENA IV
+
+MARGARITA, OLIVARES
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Conde-duque, mal os quieren.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Vos interpretáis las cosas
+de una manera... Ese tiro
+fué casualidad, señora.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Eso pensáis?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ ¿Quién lo duda? 1585
+En honor a mi persona,
+como siempre, en las Salinas
+hizo una salva la tropa...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Si hay plomo en los arcabuces,
+las salvas son peligrosas. 1590
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Nada temáis.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ No os conviene
+gastar en salvas la pólvora.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+La torpeza de un bisoño
+no nos debe causar zozobra.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+No; mas tened vos en cuenta 1595
+que hay mucha gente bisoña.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Vivid tranquila: las balas
+no han de quemarme la ropa.
+Para tiros más seguros
+pienso prevenir mi cota. 1600
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Otros teméis, Conde-duque?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Certeros y de arma sorda:
+son los tiros de la infanta
+Margarita de Saboya...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Oh! Pues diz que ella dispara 1605
+siempre al corazón.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Hay otras
+opiniones.... Diz que apunta,
+y al tirar... tiembla o perdona.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Mal la conocéis.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Con todo,
+un mes hace por ahora 1610
+que a mi privanza la guerra
+declaró en debida forma,
+y hasta el presente no he visto
+las hostilidades rotas...
+y es que en ausencia de Marte 1615
+duerme, sin duda, Belona.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Los plazos al fin se cumplen;
+las deudas al fin se cobran.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Yo, a la verdad, no comprendo
+cómo os estáis tan ociosa. 1620
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Vos lo habéis dicho: le aguardo.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Ya... no os atrevéis vos sola...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡A todo!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ ¿Pues qué os detiene?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Tenéis preguntas muy hondas.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Conque le aguardáis?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Le aguardo 1625
+como el labrador la aurora.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Y si acaso no volviese?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¡Gran Dios!)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ La fortuna es loca,
+y a veces por sus caprichos
+el plan más hábil aborta, 1630
+y se pierden como el humo
+las más diestras maniobras.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡La justicia triunfa siempre!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Cuando el ardid no lo estorba;
+bien lo sabéis.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Conde-duque, 1635
+sé que hay puñales.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ (!Oh, llora!)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Pero sé también, y acaso
+lo debo a vuestra persona,
+que una espada de buen temple
+para cien puñales sobra. 1640
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Pues no aguardéis a Quevedo!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¡Oh, Virgen... misericordia!)
+
+
+ESCENA V
+
+Dichos y QUEVEDO por la derecha y en traje de camino
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Aquí estoy porque he venido.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(!Oh, furor!)
+
+MARGARITA (mirando al cielo y con las manos juntas)
+
+ !Gracias, Señora!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Vos, don Francisco...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Acabad; 1645
+Quevedo y Villegas....
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Pues
+caballero santiagués...
+gracias...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Al diablo.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Es verdad.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Y a la cruz, y a todos pago:
+que si de Santiago soy 1650
+caballero, gracias doy...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Sí, a Medina.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ No, a Santiago.
+Al tornar de mi viaje,
+por veniros pronto a ver,
+no me quise detener 1655
+ni aun para cambiar de traje.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Mucho estimo tal fineza.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Señora... (Reparando en MARGARITA)
+ (A OLIVARES)
+ ¡Pálida está!...
+Si un ultraje...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Ella os dirá.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Adiós.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Serviré a su Alteza. 1660
+ (Acompáñala hasta la puerta)
+
+MARGARITA (aparte a QUEVEDO)
+
+¿Y bien?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Nuestra es la jornada.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Vienen los papeles?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Sí;
+mas no vienen sobre mí
+por temor de una emboscada.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Bien... La reina está mortal... 1665
+Teme...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Con razón, a fe.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+!Salvadla!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ La salvaré.
+
+MARGARITA (después de despedirse)
+
+(Tiene un alma celestial.)
+
+
+ESCENA VI
+
+QUEVEDO, OLIVARES
+
+QUEVEDO (contemplándola al partir)
+
+(¿Es mujer o es ilusión?
+¡Oh, por ella, con fe pía 1670
+gota a gota vertería
+la sangre del corazón!)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(¡Vive Dios que está despacio!)
+ (Pónele la mano sobre el hombro)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Quién?...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Tan ceñudo y suspenso
+¿qué es lo que pensáis?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ No pienso; 1675
+nunca se piensa... en palacio.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pues ¿qué hacíais de ese modo?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Repasaba mi memoria
+cierta peregrina historia.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿De amores?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Tiene de todo. 1680
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Será entretenida?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Oh, mucho!
+¿Queréis la historia saber?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Me será de gran placer.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues escuchadme.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Os escucho.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Éranse un rey muy celoso 1685
+y una reina muy hermosa;
+la reina del rey esposa,
+y el rey... de la reina esposo.
+Y así unidos ante Dios,
+como a un árbol dos raíces, 1690
+eran los dos muy felices,
+porque se amaban los dos.
+
+Pero un hombre... un favorito...
+que en la dicha y el poder
+solo ambicionaba ser...
+ (Movimiento de OLIVARES)
+Oíd: ese hombre maldito,
+por influir sin rival
+del rey en el corazón,
+alzó de infamia un padrón
+entre la pareja real: 1700
+con habilidad cruel...
+le hizo muy hábil su estrella...
+mintiendo culpas en ella,
+encendió celos en él.
+Y el rey maldijo en sus celos 1705
+a la reina por impura,
+y la reina era tan pura
+como un ángel de los cielos.
+Y desde entonces los dos
+no se han vuelto a unir jamás, 1710
+y él vive... triste quizás,
+y ella... dudando de Dios.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Permitidme que os ataje;
+porque o miente mi memoria
+o vos, al contar la historia, 1715
+olvidáis un personaje.
+Y esa historia me contó
+no sé quién, cómo ni dónde,
+y anda en ella cierto conde...
+el amante.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡No!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ ¡Sí!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡No! 1720
+
+OLIVARES
+
+De ese buen conde afirmaron
+que con la reina le vieron
+amante feliz...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Mintieron.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pues así me lo contaron.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Yo os lo contaré mejor. 1725
+
+OLIVARES
+
+El conde a la reina amaba.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pero la reina ignoraba
+su desatinado amor.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Y quién lo podrá probar?...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Hay una prueba sangrienta... 1730
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Como nadie la presenta...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+No la quieren presentar.
+Escuchadme: el favorito
+que a la reina calumnió,
+tal delito coronó 1735
+con otro nuevo delito.
+Sabedor de la verdad
+el conde, sólo podía
+poner en claro algún día
+tan cobarde iniquidad. 1740
+Era un testigo harto fiel....
+Pero ya resuelto a todo,
+halló el favorito modo
+para deshacerse de él.
+Y al pie del alcázar real 1745
+diz que una noche a traición
+pasó al conde el corazón...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Sí, una espada.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡No, un puñal!
+¿Lo oís?... Para hazañas tales
+no presta el valor espadas... 1750
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Mas...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Para muertes compradas
+la traición vende puñales.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Basta.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Oíd: al expirar
+el conde escribió un papel
+con sangre... Vengo por él. 1755
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Cómo!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Y me le vais a dar.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Nunca!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Sí, sí, por quien soy... (Saca un papel)
+de ella esta firma responde...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pero...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡El escrito del conde!
+
+OLIVARES (Después de un momento y señalando con timidez
+ el papel de QUEVEDO)
+
+Dadme ése en cambio.
+
+QUEVEDO (Después de un movimiento de extrañeza y con tono despreciativo)
+
+ Os le doy. 1760
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Me le dais?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Lo dije ya.
+
+OLIVARES (dirigiéndose a la izquierda)
+
+Vuelvo...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Sin éste... lo sé...
+ya sin armas quedaré;
+mas ¿qué importa?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Bien está. (Vase)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Entre hacer el bien del bueno 1765
+y el mal del malo, dudara
+sólo un hombre que abrigara
+ese corazón de cieno.
+
+
+ESCENA VII
+
+QUEVEDO; después MENDAÑA, CASTILLA y GRANA, que entran por la derecha y
+vuelven a salir por el fondo, izquierda
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Bravo, corazón, muy bien!
+Estoy contento de ti. 1770
+ (Mirando a la derecha)
+Mas... ¡que a punto siempre estén
+los necios!... Si ahora me ven
+no podré echarlos de mí. (Se oculta)
+
+MENDAÑA (entrando con los otros dos)
+
+Conde-duque... Pues no está.
+
+GRANA
+
+Sin duda en aquellas salas.... 1775
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Vamos a buscarle allá.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Pues con eso nos dirá
+cómo le suenan las balas. (Vanse)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+No me han visto. Es fuerte apuro
+que me hayan de perseguir 1780
+necios siempre, y de seguro
+con este infame conjuro:
+«Quevedo, hacednos reír.»
+Y es, por Dios, contraste horrendo
+y aun viceversa nefando, 1785
+y hasta sarcasmo estupendo,
+que ellos escuchen riendo
+lo que yo digo rabiando.
+Tal vez, porque se desvíen,
+suelto un chiste insulso y frío... 1790
+mas de gusto se deslíen,
+y tanto a voces se ríen,
+que al fin... yo también me río.
+Risas hay de Lucifer,
+risas preñadas de horror..., 1795
+que en nuestro mezquino ser,
+como su llanto el placer,
+tiene su risa el dolor.
+Necios, los que abrís las bocas,
+abrid los ojos... quizás 1800
+veréis que mis risas locas
+son de lástima no pocas,
+y de tedio las demás....
+¡No! Con su chata razón
+no comprenden, cosa es clara, 1805
+que mis chistes gotas son
+de la hiel del corazón
+que les escupo a la cara.
+Y jamás librarme puedo
+de ese infernal retintín 1810
+que ya me produce miedo:
+«Divertidnos vos, Quevedo.»
+Y hablo... y los divierto al fin.
+¿Qué tal? «Me divierto mucho»,
+dice, al divertirse, un bicho 1815
+ya en diversiones muy ducho...
+Y ¡con qué temblor lo escucho!...
+yo que en mi vida lo he dicho....
+Sí... los necios de mil modos
+que se diviertan, discurro 1820
+hasta por cogote y codos.
+Y yo al divertirse todos,
+siempre me canso y me aburro. (Pausa)
+Cansado estoy de cansarme
+y aburrido de aburrirme... 1825
+¡Necios, venid a enseñarme
+cómo tengo de arreglarme
+para saber divertirme!
+Y si en torno hasta el morir
+sólo necios me he de hallar 1830
+y con necios sonreír
+y entre necios divertir,
+viendo a los necios bailar:
+padre Adán,... tu parentela
+mire yo en corro infinito, 1835
+a la luz de una pajuela,
+bailando la tarantela...
+pues... ¡y el baile de San Vito!...
+
+
+ESCENA VIII
+
+QUEVEDO, OLIVARES
+
+OLIVARES (dándole un papel)
+
+Carta póstuma, Quevedo.
+
+QUEVEDO
+ (Después de mirarla por todos lados y entregando a OLIVARES el otro)
+
+Carta inédita, Olivares. 1840
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pláceme, por Dios, el trueque.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Por Dios, que también me place.
+
+OLIVARES (leyendo)
+
+«A la infanta Margarita...»
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+La orden era terminante...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+«darás al punto la muerte.» 1845
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Sentencia que vos firmasteis.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Es verdad. Y este soneto,
+como dimos en llamarle,
+sí, me ha puesto algunas veces
+descolorido el semblante. 1850
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues este escrito sangriento...
+¡ved lo que son los contrastes!...
+ha de volver los colores
+al puro rostro de un ángel.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Soneto impío! Quevedo, 1855
+permitidme que le rasgue
+sin demora... No, imagino
+que es más seguro quemarle.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Carta feliz! Conde-duque,
+permitidme que repase 1860
+sus renglones... de la reina
+quiero en la dicha gozarme.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Y esperáis?
+
+QUEVEDO (con tono solemne)
+
+ En este escrito
+hoy habla al rey un cadáver...
+ (Leyendo)
+«Al Rey,»... Oíd cómo escriben 1865
+los moribundos con sangre:
+«Muero, es justo; la beldad
+«amé que en el trono vi;...
+«pero siempre, es la verdad,
+«ignoró su majestad 1870
+«este ciego frenesí.
+«Jamás hablamos los dos...
+«¡lo jura un alma cristiana
+«ya en la presencia de Dios!
+«Muero; perdonadme vos... 1875
+con sangre... Villamediana.»
+De la fe de un moribundo
+ni el rey dudará ni nadie.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pero vos al recibirla
+me parece que dudasteis... 1880
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡De su origen, Conde-duque!
+Porque sois tan hábil,
+me asaltó al punto un recelo.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pues me hicisteis un ultraje.
+¡No falsifica papeles 1885
+la raza de los Guzmanes!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pero si un Guzmán se nombra
+conde-duque de Olivares...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Nunca falsifica!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Cierto...
+cartas escritas con sangre; 1890
+y es que tal vez le repugna...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Sí... envilecerse!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ O sangrarse.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Nunca, y lo sabréis muy pronto,
+nunca pequé de cobarde.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Sois audaz... y aun está en pleito 1895
+el valor de los audaces. (Pausa)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Quevedo, un mes hace ahora,
+no quisiera equivocarme,
+que en esta cámara misma...
+cierto en ésta fué...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Adelante. 1900
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Yo entonces para prenderos...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues a la guardia llamasteis,
+que por venir a prenderme
+tuvo después que escoltarme.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Un soneto os salvó entonces. 1905
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Sonetos de vos me salven.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Hoy os falta ya el soneto.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues... me salvará un romance.
+ (OLIVARES vase por la derecha)
+
+
+ESCENA IX
+
+QUEVEDO; después MARGARITA. Al desaparecer OLIVARES, QUEVEDO se dirige
+con rapidez a la puerta de la cámara de LA REINA
+
+QUEVEDO (llamando)
+
+Duquesa... Duquesa... quiero
+darle estas letras de sangre 1910
+sin demora... Mas... Duquesa,
+salid. ¡Oh, dicha, ya sale!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Erais vos?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Perdonad si anduve osado.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Que eso digáis!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Como ofrecí, señora,
+sin grande desazón para el privado 1915
+esta carta sangrienta he rescatado,
+y os la presento ahora.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Sois el genio del bien!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Dadme otro nombre.
+Mezquino entre los hombres me confundo,
+y hombre frágil también...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Sí, sois un hombre; 1920
+habéis nacido para honrar el mundo.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Callad, por compasión!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Cuánto os admiro!
+Alma tenéis de celestial esencia....
+¡Oh, bendita de Dios vuestra existencia
+consagrada!...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Al estudio y al retiro, 1925
+señora, y nada más.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Y a los que gimen
+consagrada también.... ¡Oh, sí, bendita
+un alma cual la vuestra, que se agita
+en pro de la virtud y contra el crimen!
+ (Movimiento de QUEVEDO)
+¡Y no me lo neguéis!... De la ventura 1930
+nuncio mortal, por bien de los mortales,
+desterráis de las almas la amargura;
+y olvidado tal vez de vuestros males,
+vivís por dar alivio a los ajenos,
+y amparo a la virtud y al crimen guerra. 1935
+¡Oh, seréis muy feliz!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Nunca! En la tierra
+nadie es feliz, señora.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¿Ni aun los buenos?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+«De una madre nacimos
+los que esta común aura respiramos,
+todos muriendo en lágrimas vivimos 1940
+desde que en el nacer lloramos.»
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Tenéis harta razón; mas yo creía
+que a vos el cielo con largueza os daba
+ventura y alegría,
+que a vos eterno el bien os sonreía... 1945
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Oh, tarde empieza el bien y pronto acaba!...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Yo pensé que el placer, libre de enojos,
+era en Quevedo condición precisa...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Nunca busquéis la flor en los rastrojos.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Yo vi siempre el contento en vuestros ojos, 1950
+y en vuestros labios contemplé la risa...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Risa fatal de la tristeza loca!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¡Oh, qué aspecto y qué voz! Me ha enternecido.)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Me comprendisteis mal... (Es una roca.)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Estáis descolorido.... 1955
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Tal vez....
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Quevedo!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Comprenderme os toca!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Mas siempre una sonrisa en esa boca...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Y en este corazón siempre un gemido.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(Resonaba en su voz el sentimiento.)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Yo he de perder al cabo la cabeza.) 1960
+Vuesa Alteza... tal vez...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ (Fáltame aliento.)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+De mi loca tristeza
+no haga caso ninguno vuesa Alteza...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Dejad la _alteza_ ahora...
+escusad nombres vanos... 1965
+amiga y no señora...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+La carta salvadora
+que puse en vuestras manos
+a la reina entregad... Con razón harta
+será alivio a sus penas esa carta. 1970
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Es verdad.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Ante todo,
+como amigo os lo ruego,
+haced que al punto y de cualquier modo
+a las manos del rey pase este pliego.
+ (Dala un pliego grande y sellado)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Bien, bien.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (Me reconcilia 1975
+con la ruin sociedad alma tan pura.)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Será de Portugal?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Es de Sicilia.
+Llegado a Portugal, en derechura
+me encaminó a Palermo mi ventura,
+y ese pliego es de allí.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Vuestra tardanza 1980
+comprendo bien ahora.
+¿Qué contiene este pliego?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Una esperanza.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Voy a entregarle al rey.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Gracias, señora.
+Y luego estad alerta
+de la cámara real junto a la puerta. 1985
+ (Entra MARGARITA en la cámara del rey)
+
+
+ESCENA X
+
+QUEVEDO; después OLIVARES
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Y ella también, cual todos, se ha engañado,
+y muy feliz, cual todos, me ha creído....
+¡Cómo insultan mi ser desventurado
+_los que ciego me ven de haber llorado
+y las lágrimas saben que he vertido_! 1990
+¡Ellos!... ¡Prole raquítica y liviana!...
+Si ojos hoy para verme no ha tenido,
+claros su prole los tendrá mañana.
+Es verdad... yo lo espero,
+¡vive Dios!... en el tiempo venidero 1995
+al nombrarme las gentes,
+se reirán mandíbulas batientes...
+¡De pensarlo no más me inunde el gozo!...
+Sí, Quevedo, los hombres, ¡oh ventura!
+allá en la edad futura, 2000
+te honrarán con chacota y alborozo;
+y al ver tu calavera, alegre risa
+llamarán a su gesto, y por laureles,
+al son de un tamboril, después de misa,
+ceñirán a tu frente blanca y lisa 2005
+corona de juglar... con cascabeles.
+
+OLIVARES (entrando por la derecha)
+
+Ya me tenéis aquí.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Tal compañía
+me era inútil, a fe.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Por vida mía,
+que de vos me ocupaba hace un instante.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Gracias.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Caprichos. Me divierte veros 2010
+en regia majestad y aire triunfante
+con escolta imperial de alabarderos...
+un mes hace que hicisteis esta escena,
+y hoy la haréis otra vez... porque es muy buena.
+Ya mis órdenes di...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Sí, hablemos claros: 2015
+para prenderme.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Pues para escoltaros.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+También me escoltarán.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ De otra manera.
+Hoy para honraros os saldrá al encuentro
+la guardia en la escalera...
+Y hoy no con vos la guardia se irá fuera, 2020
+porque vos con la guardia os vendréis dentro.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Muy bien trazado, a fe.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Para este lance
+no tenéis un soneto...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¿Y quién se aflije?
+Al fin, y ya os lo dije,
+yo en cualquiera ocasión tendré un romance. 2025
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Estáis loco, sin duda.
+¿De mí pensáis libraros? Algún día
+un ilustre señor os protegía;
+mas ya en esta ocasión no os dará ayuda.
+Ese altivo Girón, a quien se nombra 2030
+el gran duque de Osuna, ya no existe....
+El que grande y feliz os prestó sombra,
+ya murió pobre y olvidado y triste.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Respetad a los muertos!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Sus pesares
+de su gloria nacieron...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Olivares! 2035
+«Faltar pudo su patria al grande Osuna;
+«pero no a su defensa sus hazañas;
+«diéronle tumba y cárcel las Españas,
+«de quien él hizo esclava la fortuna.
+«Lloraron sus envidias una a una 2040
+«con las propias naciones las extrañas...
+«Su tumba son de Flandes las campañas
+«y su epitafio la sangrienta luna.»
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Muy bien contáis su gloria.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Y quién la vuestra contará?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ La historia 2045
+repasad, buen Quevedo, y pues en Flandes
+a los Girones encontráis tan grandes,
+buscad a los Guzmanes en Tarifa,
+y enseñad a la gente
+Guzmanes y Girones frente a frente. 2050
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Guzmanes!... Si tan ínclitos varones
+crecido hubieran con bastardos planes
+como vos, que heredasteis sus blasones,
+frente a frente Guzmanes y Girones
+no diera yo un Girón por cien Guzmanes. 2055
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Vive Dios!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Un Guzmán con su heroísmo
+nombre de Bueno conquistó en Tarifa....
+¿Hicierais vos lo mismo?
+Ese ilustre Guzmán de pecho fuerte,
+más fuerte que su malla, 2060
+su cuchillo arrojó por la muralla,
+y a su hijo dió la muerte...
+¡Padre noble y leal!... ¡Mísero padre,
+si en el hondo porvenir leyera,
+la muerte a todos con sus manos diera, 2065
+y ahogando en pos a la inocente madre,
+su lanzón por un báculo trocara
+y en un claustro muriera,
+y extinguida su raza, nunca hubiera
+un Guzmán como vos que le afrentara! 2070
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Basta, basta!... ¿Partís?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Sí... por no veros.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Al fin logro perderos!...
+¡Entrasteis... no saldréis... no, por mi vida!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Yo por la entrada buscaré salida.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡No! Y aunque halléis salida por la entrada 2075
+después os prenderán por asesino...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Libre la puerta.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ La hallaréis cerrada.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Yo me abriré camino con la espada.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Después...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ El cielo me abrirá camino. (Vase)
+
+
+ESCENA XI
+
+OLIVARES, luego MENDAÑA, CASTILLA y GRANA
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Qué placer! Sin dilación 2080
+preso le traerán aquí...
+Yo quiero testigos, sí,
+que vean su humillación.
+ (Llamándoles)
+¡Mendaña, Grana! Sí, a fe.
+Os llamo, señores... ¡Oh! 2085
+Él ante ellos me burló,
+yo ante ellos le humillaré.
+Ya se acercan. Mi venganza
+será solemne.
+
+MENDAÑA (entrando con GRANA y CASTILLA)
+
+ Señor...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Os hice venir...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Mejor. 2090
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Para una famosa chanza.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¿Una chanza?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Sí... Hará un mes
+que aquí con discretos modos
+nos burló Quevedo a todos...
+y yo por burlarle...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ ¡Pues! 2095
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Voy a prenderle.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Es razón:
+pendiente dejó un soneto....
+Si hoy no lo dice, y completo,
+diez minutos de prisión;
+y eso conforme y según. 2100
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Oíd.... (Ruido dentro a la derecha)
+
+CAPITÁN (dentro)
+
+ ¡La espada!...
+
+QUEVEDO (id.)
+
+ ¡Oh, jamás!
+
+CAPITÁN
+
+¡Soldados, matadle!
+
+QUEVEDO (entrando espada en mano acosado por el CAPITÁN y GUARDIA)
+
+ ¡Atrás!...
+
+MENDAÑA (sujetándole la espada por detrás y riéndose)
+
+Faltan seis versos aún.
+ (Los soldados rodean a QUEVEDO. El CAPITÁN le arranca la espada,
+ y OLIVARES le contempla con aire de triunfo. QUEVEDO permanece
+ impasible mirando a todos lados. Rapidez)
+
+
+ESCENA ÚLTIMA
+
+Dichos y MARGARITA, que aparece a las hojas de la cámara del rey al
+tiempo de prender a QUEVEDO
+
+OLIVARES (viéndola y con alegría)
+
+(¡Ella!... Hoy todo lo concilia
+para mi triunfo el destino.) 2105
+
+MARGARITA (Que al ver a QUEVEDO entre los guardias ha hecho un movimiento
+ de terror)
+
+Al embajador que hoy vino
+de la corte de Sicilia
+quiere ver su majestad.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Dónde está ese embajador?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Aquí, con guardia de honor!... 2110
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Cómo!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Es verdad!
+ (Los soldados dan en tierra con el cuento de sus alabardas puestas
+ antes en alto. QUEVEDO pasa por entre ellos, que le dejan paso,
+ y el CAPITÁN le entrega la espada, rodilla en tierra)
+
+QUEVEDO (a OLIVARES con sorna)
+
+ Es verdad.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(¡Mísero de mí!)
+
+QUEVEDO (aparte a OLIVARES)
+
+ Del lance
+salí con dicha completa.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Sois!...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Embajador-poeta,
+con mi credencial romance. 2115
+ (En alta voz)
+Paso a la cámara real.
+Señores... Pero es de ley
+que hoy el ministro del rey
+me acompañe. (Aparte a OLIVARES)
+ Hasta el umbral.
+ (Dirígense los dos a la cámara del rey)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Qué Quevedo y qué Olivares!... 2120
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Ved lo que hacéis.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¿Tenéis miedo?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Eso imagináis, Quevedo?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Mucho se encrespan los mares.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Soy piloto.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Conde-duque...
+dije mal... señor piloto, 2125
+sopla furibundo el noto,
+y hace agua ya vuestro buque.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(¡Oh, me hace temblar!)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Qué manos
+tan frías!... ¡Cosa más rara!...
+Reíd.... Ponéis una cara... 2130
+¿Qué dirán los cortesanos?
+Vedlos ya mustios y tristes...
+Tal vez harán ya un misterio
+de que os mantengáis tan serio,
+mientras yo os abrumo a chistes. 2135
+Reíd, reíd.... (A todos)
+ ¡Oh, señores,
+su excelencia honra a mi numen!...
+Dice que de este cacumen
+nunca oyó chistes mejores.
+Y os habéis quedado a oscuras.... 2140
+Pues ved... de risa Olivares
+aun se aprieta los ijares
+y va a echar las asaduras.
+Gracias le dije a montones;
+si os las cuenta bien contadas, 2145
+ya veréis... ¡qué carcajadas!
+ (Aparte a OLIVARES al entrar)
+Ya veréis... ¡qué convulsiones! (Saluda y entra)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Va que se le lleva el aire.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+(¡Hombre infernal!... Tengo miedo....)
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Qué donaire el de Quevedo! 2150
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Quevedo... sí, ¡qué donaire!
+
+
+
+
+ACTO CUARTO
+
+
+Salón del Palacio del Buen Retiro. En el fondo una galería de poca
+altura, a la cual conduce una ancha gradería con dos ramales a derecha
+e izquierda. Sobre la meseta, a donde parten estas tres escaleras, se
+abre en el fondo una puerta de dos hojas que conduce a la antecámara
+y habitaciones del rey, de modo que abiertas las hojas, dejan ver un
+rompimiento de salones al nivel de la meseta. A la derecha en primer
+término puerta que guía a la parte exterior del palacio; en segundo la
+cámara de LA REINA; a la izquierda en primer término las habitaciones
+de OLIVARES; en segundo una puerta secreta
+
+
+ESCENA PRIMERA
+
+QUEVEDO, MARGARITA, OLIVARES. Al levantarse el telón aparecen
+QUEVEDO y MARGARITA subiendo a la meseta por los ramales de
+derecha e izquierda con papeles en la mano. Al llegar ellos arriba
+se abren las dos hojas y sale OLIVARES, que los detiene al tiempo
+ya de entrar
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Cómo!... ¿Adentro?... Pues afuera.
+Ambos subís a par;
+volved ambos a bajar....
+Son percances de escalera.... 2155
+Tres pasos hay expeditos. (Señalando las tres bajadas)
+Conque... (Comenzando a bajar por la de en medio)
+
+QUEVEDO (a MARGARITA con resignación afectada)
+
+ Acatemos sus leyes...
+ (Bajan los tres cada cual por su lado)
+
+MARGARITA (a OLIVARES, señalando el centro)
+
+Por allí bajan los reyes.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Y también los favoritos.
+A las puertas principales 2160
+prefiriendo estos canceles,
+ibais al rey con papeles...
+¿Son, por dicha, memoriales?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Sí; y el que tengo en la mano
+dice al rey: «Señor, piedad 2165
+para España... Del tirano
+sálvenos su Majestad.»
+
+OLIVARES (a MARGARITA)
+
+¿Y el vuestro?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Con sangre escrito
+dice al esposo: «Señor,
+en la virtud no hay delito;... 2170
+Castigad al impostor.»
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Y esperáis?
+ (Señal afirmativo de QUEVEDO; MARGARITA aparece pensativa)
+ Mucho me alegro.
+¿Lo pintáis de azul? Distintas
+son de las vuestras mis tintas,
+yo os lo pintaré de negro. 2175
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¿Qué designios?)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Desde ayer
+os observo sin cesar,
+y es difícil engañar
+a la astucia y al poder.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Contra el poder hay poderes... 2180
+
+OLIVARES
+
+No los teme mi privanza.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Aun nos queda la esperanza...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Prendida con alfileres.
+Ni la astucia ni el ardid
+os salvan.... Por vuestro mal, 2185
+el rey parte al Escorial,
+y yo me quedo en Madrid...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Oh!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Tarde dais la batalla.
+Cuando ayer al rey hablasteis
+¿dónde ese escrito dejasteis? 2190
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Es buen cañón de metralla!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pero inútil ya.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ (¡Gran Dios!)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Hoy para mí solo abiertas,
+ciérranse del rey las puertas
+para vos... y para vos.... 2195
+
+Como encontrasteis cerrada
+ya la puerta principal,
+para la cámara real
+elegisteis la excusada....
+Pues todas, todas lo están. 2200
+No entraréis, no.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ (¡Dios eterno!)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Aunque se oponga el infierno,
+estas cartas entrarán.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Mucho confiáis.... La infanta
+confía menos.... Sin duda 2205
+al ver la verdad desnuda,
+vuestra situación la espanta.
+Reparad en su aflicción.
+Mirad... ella es el espejo
+donde se ve, por reflejo, 2210
+vuestra pobre situación.
+Vedla... temblando quizás...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡No!... La infanta Margarita
+noble ante el crimen se irrita;
+pero no tiembla jamás. 2215
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(¡Bien, muy bien!)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Valor, Quevedo!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Nunca me asustan azares.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Yo nunca tiemblo, Olivares.
+ (A QUEVEDO)
+¡Estoy temblando de miedo!
+Guardadme esta carta.... ¡Ay, Dios! 2220
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Confiad en vos.)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ (¡Oh, sí!
+yo confío mucho en mí;
+pero más confío en vos.)
+ (Dale el papel y entra en la cámara de LA REINA)
+
+
+ESCENA II
+
+OLIVARES, QUEVEDO
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+De la corte de Sicilia
+soy a esta corte enviado... 2225
+
+OLIVARES
+
+A tratar cosas de estado
+y no asuntos de familia.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues al rey quiero hablar hoy;
+conque introducidme al punto.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Yo, si es de estado el asunto, 2230
+ministro de estado soy.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Queréis jugar un albur?...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Sí, somos quién para quién.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Nos conocemos muy bien.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Va de tahur a tahur. 2235
+Así, pues, hablemos claros.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Es verdad, seamos sinceros.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Yo hice voto de perderos.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Voto hice yo de arruinaros.
+¡Oh, siempre os quise infinito! 2240
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Hoy lo veo.... Y lo ví antes
+por cien sátiras picantes
+que contra mí habéis escrito.
+Yo siempre os tuve afición.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Sí, sí.... Me responden de eso 2245
+los años que estuve preso
+en San Marcos de León:
+mucho frío, hambre no poca,
+y con grillos en los pies,
+sólo me faltaba...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Pues 2250
+una mordaza en la boca.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Vive Dios!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Si hoy u otro día
+volvéis allá, por fortuna,
+mandaré poneros una,
+y enmudecerá Talía. 2255
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Es que no pienso volver
+a San Marcos de León.
+Pienso, y yo sé la razón,
+derrocar vuestro poder.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Ya... lo pensáis...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Este escrito 2260
+prueba de un modo fatal
+que el rey perdió a Portugal
+por culpa del favorito;
+y aunque según las razones
+de éste España en aquel día 2265
+por un cetro que perdía
+ganaba muchos millones,
+sabido de todos es
+que el buen monarca lloró
+cuando Braganza se alzó 2270
+con el cetro portugués.
+Pues bien, tenedlo presente:
+cuando el rey lea este escrito...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Bien, se pierde el favorito,
+lo confieso llanamente; 2275
+pero el rey no lo leerá.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Lo adivináis?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Lo adivino.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Ya buscaremos camino...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+No os queda ninguno ya.
+El rey saldrá por la puerta 2280
+principal.... En este espacio
+para cruzar el palacio
+no hallaréis ninguna abierta.
+Los que entren hasta las salas
+que por este lado están 2285
+ya al otro lado no irán,
+a no ser que tengan alas.
+Saldrá el rey... y ni allá fuera
+podréis hablarle al partir,
+pues no os dejarán salir 2290
+ni a los zaguanes siquiera.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Es decir...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Que en mi opinión
+no derrocáis mi poder;
+y que, al fin, vais a volver
+a San Marcos de León. 2295
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+No; mi esperanza...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Está ya,
+como dije antes...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¿Perdida?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Con alfileres prendida.
+¡Ja... Ja...! (Saluda y vase por el fondo)
+
+
+ESCENA III
+
+QUEVEDO; luego GRANA, MENDAÑA y CASTILLA
+
+QUEVEDO (después de un momento de reflexión)
+
+ ¡Ja, ja, ja, ja, ja!
+Con alfileres.... A ver.... 2300
+Sí, Conde-duque... sin duda...
+vuestra ocurrencia es aguda...
+como... punta de alfiler.
+
+GRANA (por la derecha)
+
+Don Francisco de Quevedo...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Señor Marqués de la Grana... 2305
+
+GRANA
+
+¿Cómo, os vais?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ De mala gana
+si os quedáis vos.
+
+GRANA
+
+ Sí, me quedo.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Y hacéis bien. Yo aunque me voy,
+volveré aquí.... Lo deseo,
+porque mucho, según creo, 2310
+nos divertiremos hoy.
+
+MENDAÑA (entrando con CASTILLA)
+
+Hoy en palacio es gran día.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Juntos os dejo a los tres.
+Contad, Mendaña, al marqués
+eso de Fuenterrabía. 2315
+Conque hasta luego, señores....
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¿Qué lleváis en el magín?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Nada.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Nequáquam. En fin,
+¿qué trazáis?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Varias labores...
+sí, labores de mujeres... 2320
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Mejor!... Siempre estáis de chanza.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Quiero prender la esperanza,
+y ando... en busca de alfileres. (Vase por la derecha)
+
+
+ESCENA IV
+
+Dichos, menos QUEVEDO
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Siempre zumbón y chancero.
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Siempre venático y loco. 2325
+¡Vive Dios, que hemos de verle!...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¿Dónde?
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ En Toledo y muy pronto.
+Sí, pardiez, esa cabeza
+tiene ya seco el meollo.
+
+GRANA
+
+Sí, don Francisco...
+
+CASTILLA
+
+ Por menos 2330
+están enjaulados otros.
+
+GRANA
+
+Y ahora recuerdo: me dijo
+que hoy aquí debemos todos
+ver...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Una gran ceremonia:
+sí, la copa de oro. 2335
+
+GRANA
+
+¿Qué copa es ésa?
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ ¿Ignoráis?
+Yo os enteraré de todo.
+Es una gran ceremonia
+que ha de llenaros de asombro.
+El consejo de Castilla 2340
+en el año treinta y ocho
+consultó... mejor que nadie
+sé lo que hubo en el negocio.
+Es el caso que Olivares,
+mandando socorrer pronto, 2345
+nos salvó a Fuenterrabía,
+que a no ser por él... ¡demonio!
+Pues bien; en premio debido
+a su proceder heroico...
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Pues, ¿qué? ¿Socorrióla él mismo? 2350
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+No; pero envió el socorro;
+y en recompensa y por juro
+de heredad alcaide propio
+y perpetuo le nombraron
+de la ciudad... pero ¿cómo? 2355
+con el ítem de que el rey,
+de su amor en testimonio,
+siempre al ministro en tal día,
+por recuerdo tan glorioso,
+le ha de enviar un presente 2360
+digno de su real decoro,
+para honrar de tal jornada
+los aniversarios todos.
+Y hoy, lo mismo que otros años,
+como es público y notorio, 2365
+el rey envía a Olivares
+un sin par copa de oro;
+y, además, en un billete,
+billete de puño propio,
+colocado en tres dobleces 2370
+de la gran copa en el fondo...
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Pues el rey Felipe Cuarto
+con exquisitos piropos
+da las gracias a Olivares
+de lo que sudaron otros. 2375
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Mejor es callar. El caso
+es que el rey de puño propio,
+escribiendo al de Olivares,
+le dice con mil encomios:
+«que al aceptar en tal día 2380
+de su rey la copa de oro,
+brinde con ella tres veces
+por la patria y por el trono.»
+
+CASTILLA
+
+¡Por el trono y por la patria!...
+Él los ha hundido en el polvo... 2385
+¡Vive Dios!...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ El rey, Castilla,
+sabrá mejor que nosotros...
+
+GRANA
+
+¿Conque hoy es la ceremonia?...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Ciertamente; si es famoso
+este gran aniversario. 2390
+
+GRANA
+
+Yo, como extranjero, ignoro.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Pues ya veréis... a las cinco
+por allí... (Señalando al fondo)
+ Si es un asombro:
+¡oh, qué pompa, qué aparato!...
+¡Ni la procesión del Corpus!... 2395
+
+
+ESCENA V
+
+Dichos y OLIVARES por el fondo y cerrando las hojas tras de sí
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Señores, pláceme veros
+hoy en palacio tan pronto.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Como es la gran ceremonia...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Sois muy puntuales.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ El gozo...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Desde aquí a las cinco hay tiempo. 2400
+Hoy me ocupan mil negocios....
+¡Ah! Su majestad hoy mismo
+parte al Escorial.
+
+GRANA
+
+ Supongo
+que iréis con él.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ No, por cierto.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Ya... ¿Conque el rey parte solo?... 2405
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Yo con vosotros me quedo.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Pues mejor para nosotros.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pero el rey a su partida
+sabio dispondrá que como
+siempre, al sonar hoy las cinco, 2410
+se me dé la copa de oro.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Mejor que mejor.
+
+GRANA
+
+ ¿Y cuándo
+parte el rey?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Dentro de pocos
+momentos. Si su salida
+queréis presenciar vosotros, 2415
+a las puertas de palacio
+acudid, y acudid pronto.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Es verdad.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Para su marcha
+ya está prevenido todo;
+conque...
+
+GRANA
+
+ Vamos, pues.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Al punto. 2420
+
+OLIVARES (abriendo la puerta secreta con una llave pequeña)
+
+Venid, por aquí es más corto.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Vos mismo!... Gracias.... Sois el
+hombre mejor que conozco. (Pasan los tres)
+
+
+ESCENA VI
+
+OLIVARES, MARGARITA, LA REINA. Ésta, conducida por aquélla de la mano,
+sale de su cámara al tiempo que OLIVARES está cerrando la puerta secreta
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(Pero eres la reina...)
+ (A OLIVARES con acento imperioso)
+ Oíd,
+que os habla su majestad. 2425
+ (Aparte a LA REINA)
+¡Valor!
+
+REINA
+
+ (Yo tiemblo...) ¿Es verdad
+que hoy... parte el rey... de Madrid?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Verdad, señora.
+
+REINA
+
+ Pues... yo...
+quisiera... verle un momento,
+conque así...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Mucho lo siento, 2430
+es imposible.
+
+REINA
+
+ ¡Ay!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡No, no!
+
+REINA
+
+Concededme esa demanda...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+El rey a todos la niega.
+
+REINA
+
+Sí, sí... la reina os lo ruega.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡No, no... la reina os lo manda! 2435
+
+OLIVARES (sonriéndose)
+
+La obediencia...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ En vos es ley.
+
+OLIVARES (dirigiéndose al fondo)
+
+Si el rey lo manda, señora,
+entraréis luego...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡No, ahora!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Luego que lo mande el rey. (Sube y entra)
+
+
+ESCENA VII
+
+MARGARITA, LA REINA; después QUEVEDO
+
+REINA
+
+¿Lo ves? Tan inútil paso... 2440
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Veo con grande aflicción
+que no tienes corazón
+de reina...
+
+REINA
+
+ ¿Y lo soy acaso?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+No sabes serlo. Has pedido,
+y él con razón ha negado; 2445
+mas si tú hubieras mandado,
+él hubiera obedecido.
+
+REINA
+
+Ese hombre me infunde miedo.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Qué pálida estás!
+
+REINA
+
+ ¡Ay, Dios!
+
+MARGARITA (mirando a la derecha)
+
+Alguien se acerca. ¿Sois vos?... 2450
+¡Ah, venid, venid, Quevedo!
+
+QUEVEDO (entrando)
+
+Vuesa Majestad...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Un modo
+discurrid vos...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Ni una puerta
+hay por ese lado abierta.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Todo se ha perdido, todo! 2455
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+El rey partirá al momento...
+si es que no ha partido ya....
+Y Olivares ¿dónde está?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Vedle. (Señalando al fondo, por donde aparece OLIVARES)
+
+
+ESCENA VIII
+
+Dichos y OLIVARES
+
+OLIVARES (a LA REINA, bajando)
+
+ Señora, lo siento.
+
+REINA
+
+¿Qué traéis?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ La despedida 2460
+del rey traigo; y no os asombre:
+dice el rey que yo en su nombre
+de la reina me despida.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Sois!...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Un súbdito obediente
+que del rey cumple el mandato. 2465
+
+REINA
+
+Mas el rey...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Dentro de un rato
+partirá.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (Perfectamente...
+no ha partido el rey aún.)
+
+REINA
+
+Me retiro.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Guárdeos Dios.
+
+MARGARITA (a LA REINA que con ella se dirige a la cámara)
+
+¿Lloras?
+
+REINA
+
+ ¡Ay! (Entra)
+
+OLIVARES (a QUEVEDO)
+
+ ¡Pobre de vos!... 2470
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Eso... conforme y según,
+como se suele decir.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+El rey parte.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Bien, que parta.
+Pienso escribirle una carta.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Si os la dejan escribir. 2475
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pienso... que la tengo escrita.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Quién va a llevarla además?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Quién?... El demonio quizás.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Bien. La infanta Margarita,
+ (Dirigiendo una mirada a MARGARITA que después de acompañar a
+ LA REINA hasta el umbral, se ha quedado inmóvil a la espalda como
+ dominada por la situación)
+que ya el desengaño toca, 2480
+ved... no acude como vos
+al demonio.... Acude a Dios,
+ya con el credo en la boca.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¡Me insulta!)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ ¿Rezáis?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ No rezo...
+no.... Pues al ver que en su abismo 2485
+Dios no os confunde... ahora mismo
+a dudar de Dios empiezo.
+¡No, no, Dios mío, perdón!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Deliráis... y no lo extraño:
+víctima de un desengaño... 2490
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Os lo dice el corazón?
+Víctima será la infanta
+Margarita de Saboya;
+pero en su valor se apoya
+como una víctima santa. 2495
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Víctima.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Firme y enhiesta,
+capaz, porque a Dios le plugo,
+de humillar a su verdugo
+con una risa... ¡Oh, como ésta! (Risa violenta)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Vive Dios!... El soberano 2500
+va a partir... y yo me quedo....
+¡Ay de vos y de Quevedo!...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Puede que el rey parta en vano.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Aun esperáis que el demonio
+lleve al rey aquel escrito? 2505
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Sí.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Pues me alegro infinito,
+dadme después testimonio.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Puede que lo tenga ya.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pues, aunque al demonio encuentre,
+temo que el papel no entre. 2510
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Lo ofrecí yo, y entrará.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Lo ofrecisteis?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Lo ofrecí.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Cumplidlo.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Lo cumpliré.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+No, a fe, Quevedo.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Sí, a fe.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+No, por Dios.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Por Dios que sí! 2515
+
+OLIVARES
+
+La esperanza es en los seres...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Todo; y cual decís en chanza,
+yo por tener esperanza,
+la prendí con alfileres.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pues la esperanza guardad, 2520
+y el papel también... los dos....
+ (Hace movimiento para retirarse)
+
+MARGARITA (aparte a QUEVEDO)
+
+¿Quién lleva el papel?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Y adiós.
+ (OLIVARES se retira haciendo una cortesía irónica)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Quién?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡El demonio... mirad!
+ (Señalando a OLIVARES que al volverse y subir la gradería, enseña el
+ papel que QUEVEDO le ha prendido en la espalda. Entra OLIVARES)
+
+
+ESCENA IX
+
+QUEVEDO, MARGARITA
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Gran Dios!...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ A muerte o a vida.
+Ya no quedaba otro medio. 2525
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Nuestra suerte...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Sin remedio,
+ya está ganada o perdida.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Si viese el papel...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Propicios
+serán los cielos...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Mas él...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Lleva a la espalda el papel, 2530
+como el saco de sus vicios.
+Desechad, señora, el miedo.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Ay! Esto a nadie lo digo...
+sino a vos... que sois mi amigo:
+¡yo estoy temblando, Quevedo! (Pausa) 2535
+Y vos ¿no tembláis?
+ (Asiéndole de una mano como para cerciorarse)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Señora...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Sereno... (ahora no...)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (¡Ay de mí!)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Tembláis como yo....
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Sí, sí....
+Comienzo a temblar ahora...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡También!...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ También... ya lo veis... 2540
+tiemblo... mas no de terror,
+de...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ No lo digáis... (Alejándose)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (De amor.)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡No me habléis... ni me miréis!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Tiene razón.)
+ (QUEVEDO queda a la izquierda; MARGARITA
+ se ha apartado bastante hacia la derecha)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ (¡Estoy loca!)
+(¿Qué hice yo?... Su mano ardía... 2545
+tal vez la abrasó la mía...)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Al fin me estrellé en la roca.)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(No le quiero hablar ni aun ver.)
+Pediré fuerzas al cielo.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Corazón, si eres de hielo, 2550
+¿cómo es que hoy te siento arder?
+¡El amor! Cierto; así empieza...
+y este afán, esta zozobra...
+¡Ay! El corazón me sobra,
+y me falta la cabeza. 2555
+Amor... tú dices que sí...
+tú has dicho siempre que no.
+Cierto, yo tengo otro yo
+que combate contra mí.
+El corazón y la mente, 2560
+el sentimiento y la idea...
+el espíritu que crea,
+y el espíritu que siente...
+si entrambos contrarios son,
+¿quién?... Según lo que aquí pienso, 2565
+mal sujeta el pensamiento
+las alas del corazón.)
+Vos... (¡La tendiera mis brazos!)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Vos...
+
+OLIVARES (apareciendo en el fondo)
+
+ Mientras yo, como es ley,
+voy a despedir al rey... 2570
+id uniendo estos pedazos....
+ (Arroja al pasar varios pedazos de papel y desaparece por
+ la puerta secreta. MARGARITA da un grito de terror)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Todo perdido!... Mirad...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Sí; por mi culpa. Y ahora
+¿no me aborrecéis, señora?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Callad, Quevedo, callad! 2575
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Yo que soñé en mi delirio
+la palma del triunfo daros,
+y al fin logro coronaros
+con la palma del martirio.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Común nos será esa palma. 2580
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Yo soy quien os pierde a vos;
+yo sí.... Confúndame Dios.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Me estáis desgarrando el alma.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Maldecidme, y de ese modo...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Nunca!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Mi tormento veis 2585
+pero no comprendéis...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Todo, lo comprendo todo!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Ved mi dolor!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Ved mi llanto!
+(Ya fuera un crimen callar.)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Causa tenéis para odiar 2590
+al hombre... que os ama tanto.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Odiaros!... Tenéis razón...
+y para saberlo bien,
+preguntadlo...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¿A quién, a quién?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡A mi pobre corazón! 2595
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Yo...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Yo también, ¡ay de mí!
+yo que no tengo suspiros,
+yo... no sé cómo deciros...
+cómo expresaros... ¡oh, así!
+ (Tendiendo una mano a QUEVEDO)
+¡No... no habléis... no, por piedad! 2600
+Ya perdidos, un deber
+santo nos resta: poner
+en salvo a su majestad.
+Id, que esa prueba sangrienta
+guarde ella misma....
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Sí, sí... 2605
+pero ella viene hacia aquí.
+
+
+ESCENA X
+
+QUEVEDO, MARGARITA, LA REINA; después OLIVARES, MENDAÑA, CASTILLA y
+GRANA por la puerta secreta
+
+REINA
+
+Ya partió el rey.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ La tormenta
+sobre nosotros avanza....
+Perdidos Quevedo y yo...
+
+REINA
+
+Todo se ha perdido...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡No! 2610
+¡Todo menos tu esperanza!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Y pues sólo en vuestra mano
+estará sin riesgo ahora,
+vos... guardadla vos, señora....
+
+REINA
+
+¡Sangre! No... vos....
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¿Y el tirano? 2615
+Ved que estoy bajo su ley.
+
+REINA (a MARGARITA)
+
+Guárdala tú.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¿Cómo, en dónde?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Tomad la carta del conde.
+
+OLIVARES (Apareciendo por la puerta secreta con MENDAÑA, CASTILLA y GRANA)
+
+Ésta primero.... Es del rey.
+ (LA REINA que iba ya a tomar la carta de QUEVEDO, toma la que le
+ ofrece OLIVARES. QUEVEDO guarda la suya con despecho)
+Al entrar en la carroza, 2620
+«Para la reina», me dijo.
+
+REINA (después de leer un momento)
+
+No estuvo el rey muy prolijo.
+(¡Cuánto en mi dolor se goza!)
+Órdenes son que en su ausencia
+el rey me encomienda a mí. 2625
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Señora, todos aquí
+os debemos obediencia.
+Con la puerta principal
+hice abrir hará un momento
+la que une vuestro aposento 2630
+a la cámara real.
+
+REINA
+
+Cuanto al dejar su morada
+mandó el rey...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ En cierto modo
+fué para la reina todo.
+
+REINA
+
+(¡Y para la esposa nada!) 2635
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Hoy, humildes servidores,
+al rey miramos en vos.
+
+REINA
+
+Basta, Olivares. Adiós. (Despidiéndose)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Saludo... a mi rey. Señores,
+id.... Muy contentos y ufanos 2640
+hoy con un rey de ese porte,
+pienso que le haréis la corte
+como buenos cortesanos.
+ (LA REINA entra en su cámara acompañada de MARGARITA
+ y seguida de MENDAÑA, CASTILLA y GRANA)
+
+
+ESCENA XI
+
+QUEVEDO, OLIVARES
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Vos, ¿no vais?...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Porque me quedo.
+
+OLIVARES (señalando los pedazos de papel)
+
+Ved... trocitos de esperanza... 2645
+¿no los unisteis, Quevedo?
+ (QUEVEDO se siente en un sillón)
+¡Cómo! ¿Os sentáis? Yo no puedo
+permitir...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Parece chanza,
+y así estoy más descansado.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Venzo al fin, y estáis perdido. 2650
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues me perderé sentado.
+Mas si venzo, estoy ganado...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Cómo vos ganaréis?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Tendido.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Al respeto me faltáis!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Nada temo si perdéis; 2655
+nada espero si ganáis;
+y en mí, ganéis o perdáis,
+ya no quitáis ni ponéis.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Parece que estáis de humor.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Mucho!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Os le quiero seguir. 2660
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Bravo!... Mejor que mejor,
+como en placer y en dolor
+suele Mendaña decir.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+La esperanza que os rasgué
+y ahí en trocitos está... 2665
+la de la espalda...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Ya sé...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Cayó en mis manos... a fe,
+que el cómo gracia os hará:
+el buen rey se paseaba,
+y yo en su mesa escribía; 2670
+pero él, que a mi espalda estaba,
+muy curioso me miraba,
+y al fin con sorpresa mía,
+«¿Quién a mi buen favorito
+pone mazas sin respeto?», 2675
+dijo, y me dió el papelito.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Cómo! ¿El rey os dió el escrito?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Sí.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Pues... anduvo discreto.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Suponéis?...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Que lo leyó.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Eso al pronto me temí; 2680
+mas conmigo se rió
+de la gracia y... ví que no.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues luego veréis que sí.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+No; al partir muy lisonjero
+me habló el rey.... Besé su mano... 2685
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues así besa el cordero
+la mano del carnicero.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Deliráis.... El soberano
+con su real mano después
+puso una carta en las mías 2690
+para la reina...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Eso es...
+¿Y no os ha ocurrido, pues,
+que era la carta de Urías?
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Eso pensáis?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Sí, por Dios!
+Todo el rey lo sabe ya. 2695
+Ya no sois uno los dos;
+ya el rey os execra a vos,
+y en su carta...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Claro está:
+prevendrá el rey, Dios le guarde,
+a la reina con decoro, 2700
+que ella misma en regio alarde
+a las cinco de esta tarde
+me ofrezca la copa de oro.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+No.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Las cinco van a dar.
+El rey a la reina ha escrito, 2705
+y hoy la reina, a su pesar,
+debe al favorito honrar...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+O perder al favorito.
+Ya no hay copa de oro... no.
+ (Da la primera campanada de las cinco)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Escuchad... llegó el momento. 2710
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Me asesina ese reloj.) (Pausa)
+Cinco campanadas...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ ¡Oh!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡No hay copa!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ (¡Estoy sin aliento!)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Dió la postrer campanada...
+mas no se abre aquella puerta... 2715
+¡No... no se abre... nada... nada...
+Mirad... cerrada... cerrada!... (La puerta se abre)
+¡Oh!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ ¡Mirad... abierta... abierta!...
+
+
+ESCENA XII
+
+Dichos, y al abrirse la hojas del fondo aparece MENDAÑA trayendo en
+una bandeja una copa de oro con un billete cerrado en el fondo. Al
+lado de MENDAÑA salen GRANA y CASTILLA. Durante los versos que
+siguen el primero baja la gradería del centro seguido de un UJIER, y los
+otros dos por los ramales de derecha a izquierda, abriendo la marcha
+a dos filas de caballeros, pajes, damas y meninas, que se colocan luego
+en semicírculo, dejando en el centro a MENDAÑA con un UJIER a la
+espalda. Al bajar la comitiva LA REINA aparece en la galería entre
+MARGARITA y DOÑA INÉS
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Siempre la loca fortuna
+mala fué para los buenos... 2720
+El cielo... allí está la luna,
+y ésa no da luz ninguna
+cuando la noche es de truenos.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Mato, al fin, vuestra esperanza.
+En San Marcos de León 2725
+será horrible mi venganza....
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Tenéis...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Poder y privanza....
+¡Mirad!...
+
+UJIER
+
+ ¡Silencio, atención!
+
+REINA
+
+Conde-duque, sentáos y cubríos.
+(¿Me querrá ver el rey más humillada?) 2730
+Gozáis de tan cumplida preeminencia
+desde que el rey os concedió esa gracia.
+Hoy al partir el rey a San Lorenzo,
+para la reina os entregó una carta;
+me la disteis; en ella me previene 2735
+el rey, bajo su firma soberana,
+que en honor vuestro y en servicio suyo,
+yo, que la reina soy de las Españas,
+solemnice también la ceremonia
+que él dejó a su partida preparada; 2740
+y así, con mi presencia enalteciendo
+una regia merced que es ya tan alta,
+yo, la reina, a ofreceros he venido,
+porque el rey, mi señor, así lo manda,
+ese presente real, que sobre el trono, 2745
+bajo el rico dosel, en la real cámara,
+dejó para este fin el soberano,
+que os acuerda merced tan señalada.
+Como todos los años en la copa
+un pliego para vos puso el monarca.... 2750
+Recibid esa copa y ese pliego,
+y Dios... os dé... (Pausa)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Lo que de Dios os falta!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Como súbdito fiel, cumplir me toca
+la voluntad del rey, siempre sagrada.
+Hoy me prescribe que su copa acepte; 2755
+y la acepto a mi vez. Debo aceptarla.
+ (Toma la copa que MENDAÑA le presenta con una rodilla en tierra. El UJIER
+ toma también la bandeja y se retira, seguido de la gente palaciega, subiendo
+ las escaleras laterales por detrás de LA REINA. Entretanto MENDAÑA y los
+ demás van pasando delante de OLIVARES para hacerle un saludo de parabién;
+ QUEVEDO pasa el último, y al llegar a su lado se vuelve a la meseta y saluda
+ a LA REINA. Todo esto durante el tiempo que se tarden en decir los versos
+ que siguen)
+
+MARGARITA (aparte a LA REINA)
+
+¡Lloras... Reina, valor... ojos enjutos
+y frente real, desprecio y arrogancia!
+
+REINA
+
+¡Angustia, humillación!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Orgullo, reina,
+que el orgullo engrandece la desgracia! 2760
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Como siempre, en la copa viene un pliego,
+todo de puño real, con regias armas,
+en que recuerda los servicios míos,
+bien escasos, a fe, nuestro monarca.
+En este pliego, como siempre, ahora 2765
+el gran Felipe Cuarto, honor de España,
+frases de amor sincero me dirige,
+que yo, sábelo el rey, grabo en el alma.
+Según uso y costumbre, un caballero,
+el más ilustre y distinguido que haya 2770
+presente a la sazón, debe a su turno
+abrir el pliego real y en voz bien alta
+delante de la corte repetirme
+su contexto, palabra por palabra....
+Si Quevedo se digna...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Yo!... Me digno. 2775
+ (Aparte a OLIVARES)
+Por respeto a esa reina desgraciada.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Pues tomad el papel.
+ (Aparte a QUEVEDO)
+ Bravo soneto.
+
+QUEVEDO (idem)
+
+Sonetos hay, pardiez...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Sin consonancia.
+Tales los hay a veces, y ése es uno,
+que al lector más robusto le atragantan. 2780
+Señores, atención. Leed, Quevedo,
+en voz sonora y halagüeña y clara...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Sonora y halagüeña y clara, como
+el órgano y el céfiro y el agua.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(Su amor consagra el rey a su enemigo.) 2785
+
+REINA
+
+(Y a su esposa infeliz ¿qué le consagra?)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¡No llores, por piedad!)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (Cariño imbécil,
+el de ese imbécil rey.) Dice la carta:
+ (Leyendo)
+«A nuestro muy querido... el Conde-duque.»
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Proseguid, proseguid.
+
+QUEVEDO (leyendo)
+
+ «Salud:» (¡Tercianas!) 2790
+ (OLIVARES se inclina)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Sobrescrito feliz.... Romped la nema,
+pues lo más principal es lo que falta.
+Las lisonjas del rey... esos elogios
+que al nivel de su trono me levantan...
+Hoy el rey, mi señor, me hace dichoso. 2795
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(¡Desgarrando a la reina las entrañas!)
+ (Rompe el sello con cólera)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Repetidme esas frases cariñosas.
+
+REINA
+
+(El corazón del pecho se me arranca.)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Señores, atención. Leed, Quevedo,
+en voz sonora y halagüeña y clara. 2800
+
+QUEVEDO (aparte a OLIVARES)
+
+Conde-duque...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+ Leed. (Mirad mis ojos
+radiantes de rencor y de venganza.)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+(Os desprecio.) (A todos)
+ Escuchad. (¡No, no hay justicia!)
+
+MARGARITA (a LA REINA)
+
+¡Valor, valor!
+
+REINA
+
+ (Mi espíritu desmaya.)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+Ya veréis cuánto honor... Al punto...
+
+QUEVEDO (preparándose a leer)
+
+ ¡Al punto! 2805
+
+REINA
+
+(Ciegan mis ojos.)
+
+QUEVEDO (a todos)
+
+ Escuchad. (¡Oh, rabia!)
+
+(Leyendo)
+
+«Mi buen Olivares: no he menester encarecerte mi gran cariño,
+que es superior, y tú lo sabes, a todo encarecimiento. Aunque
+públicas son en estos reinos las pruebas del amor con que te
+distingo, hoy he de darte una mayor que todas, y dártela quiero
+como amigo, que no como monarca. Muy luego daré a Madrid
+la vuelta, y como cumple a mis designios que tú conozcas antes
+esa prueba de mi buena amistad, no debo diferirla. Es un
+aviso cariñoso de mi corazón; ten en cuenta el aviso porque
+te importa mucho. Olivares... si estuvieses en mi alcázar
+a mi regreso el amigo te dará sus brazos... el rey... su
+verdugo.»
+
+(Movimiento general de asombro)
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Ah!
+
+REINA
+
+ ¡Gran Dios!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Silencio!
+
+QUEVEDO (Poniendo a OLIVARES el papel delante de los ojos, pero con dignidad)
+
+ Ved.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Mísero de mí!
+ (QUEVEDO se dirige a LA REINA; MENDAÑA y GRANA, separándose
+ de OLIVARES, le salen al encuentro. CASTILLA permanece cruzado
+ de brazos cerca de QUEVEDO)
+
+MENDAÑA (a QUEVEDO)
+
+ ¡Qué asombro!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Y así le dejáis? ¡Volved!...
+Si os dió arrimo un pared 2810
+y se hunde... arrimadle un hombro.
+Sombra y nido a vuestro gusto
+os dió un árbol... ¡cayó allí!
+Mas si al dejarle con susto,
+buscáis otro más robusto,... 2815
+no le encontraréis en mí...
+nunca, no. Sobre cascajos,
+tronco soy de rudas quiebras
+que, creciendo entre espantajos,
+ni ofrece nido a los grajos, 2820
+ni da sombra a las culebras.
+Ya en la cortesana grey
+no hay reyezuelos.... Hay dos
+reyes... la reina y el rey.
+ (Volviéndose a LA REINA)
+Señora, cambió la ley. 2825
+
+REINA
+
+¡Quevedo, que os oiga Dios!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Hoy que Dios en su bondad
+la luz del bien nos envía
+tras de tanta oscuridad,
+para vuesa Majestad, 2830
+grande señora, es el día.
+Hoy ante el solio español
+se dilata el horizonte,
+y entre nubes de arrebol,
+más claro amanece el sol, 2835
+porque se derrumba el monte.
+ (A todos)
+¡El rey... la reina después!
+
+CASTILLA
+
+Si hoy por fin de sus pesares
+ya la reina reina es,
+sirva de alfombra a sus pies 2840
+el sombrero de Olivares.
+ (Se lo arranca de la cabeza y lo arroja a los pies de LA REINA,
+ que baja las gradas con MARGARITA y DOÑA INÉS)
+
+PAJE (entrando)
+
+Para la reina este pliego
+del rey, que en Atocha está.
+ (QUEVEDO lo presenta a LA REINA)
+
+REINA (a QUEVEDO)
+
+Yo en vuestras manos lo entrego.
+ (QUEVEDO lo abre y lee)
+
+MARGARITA (Acercándose a OLIVARES después de tomar el sombrero del suelo)
+
+Conde-duque, a vos me llego, 2845
+pero sin rencores ya.
+Contrarios fuimos los dos;
+pero aquí cesa mi encono.
+Matarme quisisteis vos...
+pues bien... que os perdone Dios, 2850
+lo mismo que yo os perdono.
+Y pensad en vuestra cuita,
+que si audaz un caballero
+hoy hasta el sombrero os quita,
+yo, la infanta Margarita, 2855
+hoy... os devuelvo el sombrero.
+ (Da el sombrero a OLIVARES)
+
+REINA (a QUEVEDO que ha leído ya el pliego)
+
+¿Órdenes del rey serán?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Que se cumplan sin demora
+quiere el rey.
+
+REINA
+
+ Se cumplirán.
+ (QUEVEDO la ofrece el pliego)
+Bien en vuestra mano están. 2860
+Vos...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Obedezco, señora.
+ (A OLIVARES)
+Y vos no os hagáis rehacio;
+por orden del rey, salid
+sin más término ni espacio
+ahora mismo de palacio, 2865
+y mañana de Madrid.
+ (OLIVARES se dirige a la puerta como maquinalmente)
+
+MENDAÑA (a QUEVEDO)
+
+Bien, mejor.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Vos a su lado;
+como un perro, y más puntual,
+seguisteis siempre al privado...
+seguid, pues, al desterrado 2870
+y seréis perro leal.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Para mí tanta dureza!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Comprended, si no sois perro,
+que uno acaba y otro empieza;
+os dió sombra en su grandeza... 2875
+dadle sombra en su destierro.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Pero... hacerme desterrar!...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Eso según vuestro humor,
+es mejor.
+
+MENDAÑA (con asombro)
+
+ ¡Mejor!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Mejor
+que si os hiciesen ahorcar.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Mejor, mejor, por mi vida!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Todo convertido en nada!
+
+MENDAÑA (dando el brazo a OLIVARES)
+
+Conde-duque, de partida.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¿Dónde?
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ A buscar la salida,
+porque se cerró la entrada. 2885
+ (Los dos se dirigen a la puerta de la derecha)
+Si el verdugo ha de apretaros...
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Ay, Mendaña!
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ Ea, valor.
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Desterrarme!
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ ¡Desterrarnos!
+
+OLIVARES
+
+¡Nos destierra!
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ ¡Pudo ahorcarnos!
+Conque mejor que mejor. (Vanse) 2890
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+El rey anuncia además
+que no ha de haber favoritos
+ya en su palacio jamás... (Rumor lejano)
+Pero ese rumor... quizás
+llega ya el rey.
+
+REINA
+
+ Esos gritos... 2895
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+De gozo, señora, son:
+el pueblo con sus clamores
+celebra su redención...
+
+GRANA
+
+Pues que el rey llega...
+
+REINA
+
+ Es razón;
+id a su encuentro, señores. 2900
+
+QUEVEDO (a CASTILLA)
+
+Decid a Mendaña vos
+que si el destierro le es duro,
+vuelva a entrar del rey en pos.
+ (Vanse CASTILLA y GRANA por la derecha)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Dejará solo ¡gran Dios!
+a Olivares?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ De seguro. 2905
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Qué barbarie!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ No, es piedad....
+El dolor, por el contrario,
+diz que ama la soledad...
+por eso la humanidad
+deja al dolor solitario. 2910
+
+
+ESCENA XIII
+
+QUEVEDO, MARGARITA, LA REINA
+
+QUEVEDO (a MARGARITA sacando la carta del conde)
+
+Vos, señora...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Dadme luego.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Al paso en cualquiera parte.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Sepa el rey que estuvo ciego....
+ (Dirígese a las gradas rápidamente)
+
+REINA
+
+¿Dónde vas?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Voy a salvarte. (Entra)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Esa carta salvadora 2915
+de vuestra virtud responde:
+la escribió con sangre el conde,
+y el rey va a leerla ahora.
+
+REINA
+
+Será inútil... Tantos días
+de olvido y separación... 2920
+Ya del rey el corazón
+entre torpes mancebías...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Ya su ángel malo en el cieno
+no podrá hundirle en el vicio.
+
+REINA
+
+Le dejó en el precipicio... 2925
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Que le salve su ángel bueno.
+Sedlo vos...
+
+REINA
+
+ ¿Y su desdén?
+Del bien le alejaron ya.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Vuestra mano bastará
+para conducirle al bien. 2930
+Ya no hay quien siembre cizaña;
+amadle y que os ame a vos;
+y haced, unidos los dos,
+la felicidad de España.
+
+REINA
+
+Fuera en ello tan dichosa... 2935
+
+MARGARITA (apareciendo en el fondo)
+
+El rey...
+
+REINA
+
+ ¿Quiere ver quizás
+a la reina?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Mucho más!
+Quiere abrazar a la esposa.
+ (LA REINA y QUEVEDO suben las gradas)
+
+REINA
+
+El rey...
+
+MARGARITA (señalando al fondo por entre las hojas entreabiertas)
+
+ Mírale... hacia aquí
+con toda su corte avanza... 2940
+
+REINA
+
+El temor y la esperanza...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Ven a su encuentro!...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ ¡Sí, sí!
+Y a la clara luz del sol
+al rey amando leal,
+dadle tan solo un rival... 2945
+ (Gritos del pueblo)
+ese buen pueblo español.
+ (LA REINA, conducida por MARGARITA, entra y se dirige a la izquierda. Al
+ abrirse las hojas, en el fondo aparecen caballeros, y en primera MENDAÑA,
+ CASTILLA y GRANA; pajes y guardias que van desfilando hacia la izquierda)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Ven.
+
+REINA (dentro)
+
+ ¡Mi esposo!... ¡Dicha entera!
+¡Que mis brazos te reciban!
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Vivan nuestros reyes!...
+
+TODOS
+
+ ¡Vivan!
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+¡Todos adentro!
+
+QUEVEDO (saliendo y cerrando tras de sí las puertas)
+
+ Y yo fuera. 2950
+
+
+ESCENA XIV
+
+QUEVEDO, luego MARGARITA
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Todos se van; yo me quedo.
+Bien; importe que importe,
+si se restan con el dedo,
+debe la corte a Quevedo
+lo que Quevedo a la corte. 2955
+Todos en tan fausto día
+van adonde el viento va
+en revuelta algarabía...
+Quevedo, en tanta alegría
+¿quién de ti se acuerda ya? 2960
+ (MARGARITA aparece, y al ver que QUEVEDO comienza a bajar
+ por la izquierda, baja por la derecha, mirándole con afán)
+Con su ayer y sus historias,
+un recuerdo... está perdido
+siempre en el hoy de las glorias...
+que al fin siempre las memorias
+son merienda del olvido. 2965
+Tu presencia en tal morada
+fuera un recuerdo importuno...
+y hoy al fin de la jornada,
+al pensar todos en nada,
+ya no piensa en ti ninguno. 2970
+En ti, ni aun después de todo,
+si a buena luz lo escudriñas,
+pensarán... como el beodo
+piensa, al empinar el codo,
+en el que plantó las viñas. 2975
+¿Quién se acuerda ya? Lo sé...
+
+Ninguno, ninguno... (Viéndola) ¡Ah, sí!...
+En este momento, a fe,
+pensaba...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Comprendo en qué...
+y errasteis pensando así. 2980
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Perdonadme... En tal momento...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Que así me ofendieseis vos!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Yo siento.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ También yo siento.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Dulce y común sentimiento
+que es el alma de los dos. 2985
+
+MARGARITA (señalando el corazón)
+
+¡Siempre aquí!
+
+QUEVEDO (ídem)
+
+ ¡También aquí!
+inmenso, ideal, profundo...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Digno de vos y de mí.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Y eterno, eterno!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Sí, sí...
+pero que lo ignore el mundo. 2990
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+A ser nacimos quizás
+siempre amantes...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Siempre buenos...
+¡Ay... venturosos... jamás!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¿Por qué yo no nací más?
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¿Por qué yo no nací menos? 2995
+Lo hizo Dios... y él nos lo advierte:
+un loco amor dió por fruto,
+no siendo común su suerte,
+a Villamediana muerte
+y a la reina llanto y luto.... 3000
+Tales son sus condiciones...
+mi sosiego y vuestra vida
+por fugaces ilusiones...
+¡Dense nuestros corazones
+su postrera despedida! 3005
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Qué desventurado soy!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Muerto fué Villamediana...
+y la reina...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Basta. Hoy
+mismo a mi villa voy.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+Bien. Yo a un convento mañana. 3010
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Y allí con honda querella
+diré a mi suerte cruel:
+«¿Por qué me separas de ella?»
+Y vos...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Yo diré a mi estrella:
+«¿Por qué me separas de él?» 3015
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Adiós.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Adiós.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ (En la orilla
+morir ahogado... ¡Oh tormento!)
+
+MARGARITA
+
+(¡Arde el llanto en mi mejilla!)
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡No os olvidéis de la villa!
+
+MARGARITA
+
+¡Pensad vos en el convento! 3020
+
+
+ESCENA ÚLTIMA
+
+Dichos y MENDAÑA, CASTILLA, GRANA con varios caballeros que en
+este momento aparecen abriendo las hojas del fondo, y bajan a la
+escena. Al verlos QUEVEDO, que ya iba a salir, se detiene notando un
+movimiento de terror en MARGARITA, que se esfuerza para ocultar su
+turbación y sus lágrimas
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Su alteza...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Mirad... la infanta
+llora... de risa.
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ Eso es...
+chistes de Quevedo...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Pues...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Mejor, ¡cuánta gracia, cuánta!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues hoy con gracioso porte 3025
+yo que mil gracias ensarto,
+al fin, de mis gracias harto,
+dejo, por gracia, la corte.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Y aun muy gracioso al marchar...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Y chiste acerté a decir...
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Que hizo a su alteza reír...
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+Pues, y de risa llorar;
+que, unidos en un engaste,
+por lo alegre y por lo triste
+una lágrima y un chiste 3035
+son... un chistoso contraste.
+
+GRANA
+
+¡Es verdad!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Si bien lo mira
+la excelente humanidad,
+todo en el mundo es verdad...
+
+CASTILLA
+
+¡Cómo!
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Cuando no es mentira. 3040
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Ya que sin vuestra persona
+en la corte nos quedamos,
+¡qué de chistes aguardamos
+de esa musa juguetona!...
+Desde allá vos... ya lo sé: 3045
+sois en el chiste muy ducho.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+¡Mucho, mucho!
+ (A MARGARITA)
+ ¡Mucho!
+ (A todos)
+ ¡Mucho!
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+Escribid.
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Escribiré;
+que al surcar simples y mansos
+las cortesanos espumas, 3050
+me han provisto ya de plumas
+muchos, muchísimos gansos.
+Y van dispuestos y prontos
+en mi alquitara mental...
+mil sonetos.
+
+MENDAÑA
+
+ ¡Mil! ¿Qué tal? 3055
+¿Sobre qué?
+
+QUEVEDO
+
+ Sobre los tontos.
+Ya os tendré presente a vos....
+ (A todos)
+¡La amistad!... entre los dientes....
+Yo os tendré a todos presentes...
+porque...
+
+MARGARITA
+
+ ¡Ay!
+ (A QUEVEDO, despidiéndose en la meseta)
+ ¡Adiós!
+
+QUEVEDO (íd. besándola la mano)
+
+ ¡Adiós!
+ (A todos)
+ ¡Adiós! 3060
+
+(QUEVEDO atraviesa la escena, cálase el sombrero, se emboza y vase
+por la derecha; los cortesanos se miran unos a otros, y cae el telón)
+
+Fin del Drama
+
+
+
+
+NOTES
+
+
+ACTO I, STAGE DIRECTION. =la de San Martín=: Sanz has associated the
+Iglesia de San Martín with the Plazuela de San Martín. The square in
+front of the Iglesia de San Martín was in reality the Plazuela de las
+Descalzas. The present Plaza de Antón Martín, at the intersection of the
+Calle del León and the Calle de Atocha, is in quite another part of the
+city.
+
+The church of San Martín was built in the seventeenth century. Its
+richness attracted the attention of the French soldiers in 1809, when it
+was sacked and destroyed by them.
+
+=5-6.= In 1583 Philip II gave orders that no woman in all his kingdom,
+whatever her state, quality, or condition, should go about with her face
+covered (Nov. Recop., ley 8, t. 13, lib. vi). The same order went forth
+again in 1593, 1610, and 1693. The prohibition was obviously to prevent
+scandal and intrigue.
+
+=32.= =mejoría=: Castilla early shows his scorn for the empty-headed
+sycophant Mendaña by thus punning on the word =mejoría=. Here, in addition
+to the meaning of 'advancement', it alludes to the exaggerated use by
+Mendaña of the exclamation =mejor=.
+
+=47.= =Su excelencia=: the conde-duque de Olivares.
+
+=52.= =mejoreo=: another jibe at Mendaña, cf. l. 32. The suffix =-eo= is
+generally used to form nouns only from verbs in =-ear=.
+
+=66.= =no haya duelo ni quebranto=: 'let there be no dueling or damage
+done.'
+
+=70.= =El de Guzmán=: Don Gaspar de Guzmán, conde-duque de Olivares.
+
+=103.= =La infanta Margarita=: cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=110.= =Ocaña=: an old town in the northeast corner of the province of
+Toledo, not far from Aranjuez. During the Middle Ages it was a town of
+considerable importance. As late as the early years of the seventeenth
+century it was still a resort for the fashionables of Madrid.
+
+=134.= =la duquesa de Mantua=: cf. Historical Introduction. Mantua is a
+province that formed part of ancient Lombardy. The succession to the
+duchy of Mantua caused a bitter war. The legitimate heir was Charles,
+duke of Nevers. His heritage was disputed by Ferdinand and Cæsar
+Gonzaga, dukes of Guastalla, and by the duke of Savoy. Charles caused
+Mantua to be occupied by his son contrary to the wishes of the Emperor
+Ferdinand II. France and Venice supported Charles and ousted the
+Savoyards and Spaniards who were besieging Casale (1629). In July, 1630,
+the city of Mantua was taken and sacked by the imperial troops. At the
+diet of Ratisbon the Emperor Ferdinand gave in, putting Charles in
+possession of his duchies. Spain at first refused to accept this
+decision, but later, by the treaty of Cherasco (1631), recognized it.
+
+=139.= =Saboya=: Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy married Marguerite of Valois, a
+sister of Henry II of France. The son of this marriage, Charles Emmanuel
+I, married the infanta Catalina, daughter of Philip II of Spain. The
+ambitions of Charles Emmanuel to extend his dominions westward were
+severely punished by Henry IV in the treaty of Lyons (1601). Savoy
+mingled in most of the wars of the early part of the century. Charles
+Emmanuel's shifting politics were always guided by his desires of
+aggrandizement.
+
+=153.= =el conde-duque=: not a legal title. When Philip IV made him duke of
+San Lúcar, he should according to custom have dropped the lower title of
+count of Olivares; but he asked leave to keep the title which was
+already well known to the nation. Thenceforth he was popularly called
+"the count-duke."
+
+=202.= =Villamediana=: cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=266.= =¿Conocéis?...=: i.e. =¿Conocéis ...?= In the Romance languages the
+suspensive points take the place, for many purposes, of the dash in
+English. The most authoritative usage is that when these points are used
+with an exclamation or interrogation point, as here, they (like the dash
+in English) are put before the exclamation or interrogation point if
+they mean that the sentence is broken off, but after it if they mean
+that there is a break between this and the next sentence. But it is
+commoner to put the exclamation or interrogation point invariably before
+the suspensive points, as the comma in English is always put before the
+dash, regardless of the sense. When this is done, it expresses the sense
+rightly in most places, but there will generally be a considerable
+minority of places where the punctuation must be understood as if
+transposed, i.e. as indicating an uncompleted sentence. Since Sanz, or
+his printer, followed this more mechanical rule, it is followed in this
+edition; but the student must take care not to be misled by it.
+
+=303-306.= =Ya hace meses=, etc.: cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=336 ff.= Cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=434.= =cruz de Santiago=: a red cross to represent a sword with
+fleurs-de-lis at hilt and guard, on a field of white. The order of St.
+James was founded in the twelfth century as a combatant order to fight
+the Moors. Later membership in the order was purely honorary. It carried
+with it an =encomienda= or estate from which income was derived.
+
+ACTO II, STAGE DIRECTION. =el palacio del Buen Retiro=: built by Olivares
+to flatter the whims of Philip IV. It stood beyond what were then the
+eastern limits of Madrid. Work on it was begun in 1621, and in 1632
+Olivares presented the keys of the new palace to his sovereign amidst
+great rejoicing. During the French occupation of Madrid after 1808 it
+was used as a fortress by the troops of Napoleon. The palace and
+buildings were destroyed later by the French. What were the palace
+grounds now form the nucleus of the Parque del Retiro.
+
+=627-634.= An allusion to Philip's suspicion of Doña Isabel's guilt in the
+affair with Villamediana. Cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=687.= =ese escrito=: cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=707.= =Y con su propia sangre=: cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=765.= =van ya muchos años=: Villamediana was murdered in 1622.
+
+=782.= =el príncipe heredero=: Don Balthasar Carlos received a separate
+establishment in 1643. A boy of rare promise, his early death in 1646
+was a serious blow to the hopes of Philip and of the Spanish people.
+
+=793-800.= It was customary for members of the nobility to have lodgings
+in the palace, especially those who enjoyed honorary positions as
+personal servants to the sovereign. In this passage no particular
+significance attaches to the names mentioned other than that their
+hostility to Olivares was the cause of their removal. For this episode
+cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=926.= =letrilla=: a letrilla is usually divided into strophes at the end of
+each of which the central thought of the whole composition is repeated
+as a refrain. This form was effectively used by Quevedo as a vehicle for
+satire.
+
+=928.= =al buen entendedor=: the whole proverb is "Al buen entendedor, pocas
+palabras," or "A buen entendedor, breve hablador." The English
+equivalent is "A word to the wise is sufficient."
+
+=944.= It should be recalled that Quevedo, Act I, Scene XIII, had picked
+up by mistake Medina's cloak instead of his own.
+
+=1070.= Grana calls attention to the cross of St. James and congratulates
+Quevedo on receiving it.
+
+=1277-1292.= As the stage direction explains, Sanz has cleverly taken
+eight lines from Quevedo's sonnet _A Una Nariz_, and introduced asides
+to Olivares. The sonnet continues:
+
+ Érase un espolón de una galera,
+ érase un pirámide de Egipto,
+ las doce tribus de narices era.
+ Érase un naricísimo infinito,
+ muchísima nariz, nariz tan fiera,
+ que en la cara de Anás fuera delito.
+
+=1281.= =una nariz sayón y escriba=: the two nouns =sayón= ('executioner') and
+=escriba= ('scribe,' 'notary') used as adjectives convey the idea that
+this nose was a sharp one, even a deadly one. The notary with his
+affidavits was as much to be dreaded as the executioner himself.
+
+=1291.= =Ovidio Nasón más narizado=: the allusion is to the Latin poet
+Publius Ovidius Naso; the pun is on the word =Nasón= (Naso); _naso_ in
+Latin = =narizado=.
+
+=1445-1468.= Cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=1552.= =Esthin=: Hesdin, a fortified town near the English Channel, in
+Artois; taken by the French in 1639.--=Wiranzan=: probably Besançon in
+Franche-Comté.--=Dola=: Dôle, a fortified town, capital of Franche-Comté
+till 1648.
+
+=1553.= =Islas Terceras=: the name given to the central group of the Azores;
+it may apply as well to the entire archipelago. Portuguese territory
+until 1582, it passed with Portugal to the control of Spain and was not
+restored to Portugal until the mother country regained her independence.
+
+=1554.= =el Ducado de Borgoña=: an error; the _duchy_ of Burgundy, west of
+the river Saône, had not been a Spanish possession. It was the _county_
+of Burgundy, east of the Saône, better known in English as
+Franche-Comté, that came to the Spanish crown from the house of Austria.
+It was largely occupied by the French about 1643, though it was restored
+to Spain at the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648 and did not become
+permanently a part of France till thirty years later.
+
+=1555.= =el Brasil=: Brazil was a Portuguese possession until 1822. In
+1630-1644 the Dutch occupied the northern provinces almost down to the
+capital, Bahia.--=el Rosellón=: Roussillon, north of the eastern end of
+the Pyrenees, was formerly a dependency of the crown of Aragon. Louis
+XIII began its conquest in 1639 and concluded it in 1642.
+
+=1556.= =Ormuz=: a Portuguese trading station on the East India route until
+1622, when it was captured and destroyed by the Persians and English. It
+was on the strait of the same name, which connects the Persian Gulf and
+the Sea of Oman.--=Pernambuco=: a Brazilian state whose colonization dates
+from the second decade of the sixteenth century. The Dutch seized it in
+1630 and held it till 1654.--=Hoa=: for Goa, a Portuguese trading station
+in India.
+
+=1559.= =Braganza=: the house of Braganza was founded by John I of Portugal
+in the person of his illegitimate son Alfonso. The dukes of Braganza
+played important rôles in the history of Portugal during the fifteenth
+and sixteenth centuries. Tedosio II served Philip II faithfully as long
+as Portugal was a Spanish dependency. In 1630 his son John II succeeded
+him, and in 1640 was proclaimed king of Portugal as John IV.
+
+=1560.= =Villaviciosa=: Villa Viçosa, a city of Portugal about twenty miles
+from Elvas. It is famous for its connection with the house of Braganza.
+
+=1587.= =las Salinas=: I am unable to identify this place.
+
+=1615-1616.= Mars and Bellona, the god and goddess of war in Latin
+mythology. Margarita and Quevedo are leading the attack on Olivares.
+While Quevedo is absent Margarita is idle.
+
+=1685.= =Éranse etc.=: the stereotyped manner of beginning a story. It has
+the same touch of quaintness as the English "once upon a time there
+was," etc.
+
+=1837.= =tarantela=: the tarantella is a Neapolitan dance, particularly
+animated and spirited. The sense of the passage is that Quevedo watches
+his fellow mortals rush feverishly hither and thither with great stir of
+activity, but accomplishing nothing of value.
+
+=1838.= This name originally was applied to a German dancing mania. Sanz
+uses it in its modern sense of a disease whose most conspicuous symptom
+is interference with the control of the muscles.
+
+=1882.= This line is faulty; two syllables are lacking.
+
+=1908.= Quevedo is even more famous for his satirical =romances= (_ballads_)
+than for his letrillas and sonnets.
+
+=1926-1929.= Margarita here probably alludes to Quevedo's _Poesías
+Morales_, "esto es que descubren y manifiestan las pasiones y costumbres
+del hombre, procurándolas enmendar."
+
+=1938-1941.= These lines are taken from the first strophe of Quevedo's
+"Elogio al Duque de Lerma, Canción Pindárica."
+
+=1977.= Sicily was at this time still ruled by a Spanish viceroy.
+
+=1979.= Palermo, a city on the north coast of Sicily, formerly the capital
+of the kingdom of Sicily and now the capital of the province of Palermo.
+
+=1989-1990.= These lines are taken from one of Quevedo's cold and highly
+artificial love sonnets, "Musa" IV, VII.
+
+=2030.= =ese altivo Girón=: cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=2036-2043.= Sanz quotes the two quatrains of Quevedo's sonnet "Memoria
+inmortal de Don Pedro Girón, Duque de Osuna, muerto en la prisión." The
+concluding tercets are inferior to the quatrains.
+
+=2048.= =los Guzmanes en Tarifa=: the allusion is to Alonso Pérez de Guzmán,
+called =el Bueno= (1256-1309). In the reign of Sancho IV of Castile,
+Alonso Pérez was entrusted with the defense of Tarifa against the Moors.
+Tarifa was besieged by the traitorous infante Don Juan at the head of an
+army of Moors and adventurers. Assaults proving fruitless, Don Juan
+summoned Guzmán to a parley on the walls of the city, where he told him
+that if Tarifa were not immediately surrendered, the son of the gallant
+defender would be put to death before his eyes. The answer of Alonso
+Pérez was to fling down the weapon with which his son should be
+murdered. Don Juan promptly dispatched the boy and cast his head within
+the walls.
+
+=2153.= This line is faulty; one syllable is lacking.
+
+=2173-2175.= Blue symbolizes perseverance, loyalty and recompense; while
+black, as the symbol of grief and mourning, would signify despair.
+
+=2186.= =al Escorial=: the Real Sitio or Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo del
+Escorial lies thirty-one miles northwest of Madrid. It is traditionally
+believed that during the battle of St. Quentin on St. Lawrence's day
+(Aug. 10), 1557, Philip vowed that he would build a monastery and
+dedicate it to St. Lawrence in order to make amends for the destruction
+by Spanish artillery of a church that bore his name. However, as
+Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy won the battle and Philip himself was not
+present, we may suppose that the Escorial was built rather to fulfill
+Philip's promise to his father Charles V that he would build a suitable
+tomb as a final resting-place for the remains of the latter and of his
+wife. In modern times the Escorial has been little used as a palace by
+the kings of Spain. It is now a monastery in the care of Augustinian
+monks.
+
+=2242.= Cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=2247.= Cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=2255.= =enmudecerá Talía=: Thalia is the muse of comedy; hence the passage
+would mean 'your laughing satirical tongue will be silenced.'
+
+=2256-2257.= Cf. Historical Introduction.
+
+=2315.= Mendaña gives the explanation in the following scene, cf. l. 2346
+and note.
+
+=2320.= Quevedo puns on the word =labores= 'embroidery' and the usual sense
+of 'labor, work.'
+
+=2327.= =en Toledo=: an allusion to the hospital for the insane at Toledo,
+called =la Casa del Nuncio=.
+
+=2340.= =el consejo de Castilla=: the Consejo de la Real Cámara or Cámara de
+Castilla was an outgrowth of the reorganized Consejo Real of Ferdinand
+and Isabella. It was established in 1588 by Philip II, who required that
+its members be persons chosen for their prudence, piety, and zeal. Its
+principal functions were to look after the royal revenues, to fill
+ecclesiastical benefices, and to administer justice in Castile, Navarre,
+and the Canary Islands.--For this action by the Consejo cf. Historical
+Introduction.
+
+=2346.= =Fuenterrabía=: the siege by the French began in July, 1638. The
+town was supplied with provisions by sea from San Sebastian until a
+fleet commanded by the archbishop of Bordeaux put an end to this source
+of supplies with heavy loss to the Spaniards. Meanwhile a force was
+being prepared to attack the French in their camp. The attack was
+successful and the rout of the French was complete.
+
+=2395.= =del Corpus=: Corpus Christi, the day upon which the institution of
+the Holy Eucharist is commemorated. It is observed in Roman Catholic
+countries with great pomp and ceremony.
+
+=2511.= =Lo=: not the paper, but, as line 2513 shows, the proposition that
+the paper should go in.
+
+=2547.= =Al fin me estrellé en la roca=: 'at last I have met my fate.'
+Quevedo had always affected scorn for women. Sanz ignores the fact of
+Quevedo's marriage.
+
+=2565.= =¿quién?...=: the full form of the question is 'which will prove the
+stronger?'
+
+=2647.= It was a breach of etiquette for Quevedo to be seated without
+permission in the presence of Olivares.
+
+=2658.= =ya no quitáis ni ponéis=: this is a reminiscence of Bertrand du
+Guesclin's "Ni quito ni pongo rey, pero ayudo a mi señor." Du Guesclin
+with his White Companies came to the aid of Enrique de Trastamara in
+the latter's rebellion against his half-brother Pedro el Cruel. Pedro,
+besieged in the castle of Montiel, tried to save himself from Enrique by
+making terms with Du Guesclin, but he was betrayed into the presence of
+Enrique. In the struggle that necessarily ensued the two brothers fell
+to the ground locked in each other's arms. Things were going badly for
+Enrique when Du Guesclin interfered to give Enrique a chance to dispatch
+Pedro with his dagger (1369).
+
+=2693.= =la carta de Urías=: in order to have greater opportunity to indulge
+his passion for Bathsheba, King David sent her husband Uriah to the
+siege of Rabbah, and at the same time sent a letter giving orders that
+Uriah be stationed in the place of greatest danger. Cf. II Samuel xii.
+
+=2714.= =postrer=: we should expect =postrera= before a feminine noun, but the
+meter demands =postrer=.
+
+=2731.= =Gozáis de tan cumplida preeminencia=: the right to cover the head
+in the presence of the king was the special ceremonial distinction of
+the grandees of Spain.
+
+THE KING'S LETTER, last line: if Quevedo had not made pauses in reading
+in order to hold his hearers in suspense, there would have been a
+punctuation mark after =brazos= but not after =rey=.
+
+=3009.= =mi villa=: la Villa de la Torre de Juan Abad, in the Campo de
+Montiel, about one hundred miles from Madrid.
+
+
+
+
+VOCABULARY
+
+
+The sign ~ means a repetition of the word in black type at the beginning of the
+paragraph; thus, under =acordar=, "=~se=" means =acordarse=.
+
+=a= to, at, on, by, with, in, according to, within; _as sign of personal object
+ is not to be translated_;
+ =~ muerte= o =~ vida= it is life or death;
+ =~ pesar de= in spite of;
+ =~ qué= why;
+ =~ no ser por= were it not for;
+ =~ través de= across, through
+
+=abajo= below, beneath
+
+=abalanzarse sobre= rush impetuously at
+
+=abandonar= abandon, forsake
+
+=abierto, -a= (_pp. of_ =abrir=) open
+
+=abismado, -a= (_pp. of_ =abismar=) buried in thought, dejected
+
+=abismo= _m._ abyss
+
+=abonar= support, bear out
+
+=aborrecer= _irreg._ abhor, hate
+
+=abortar= miscarry, fail
+
+=abrasar= burn, fire; madden
+
+=abrazar= embrace
+
+=abrigar= shelter
+
+=abrir= _irreg._ open;
+ =~ la marcha= go at the head, lead;
+ =~ paso= clear the way
+
+=abrumar= crush, weary
+
+=absorto, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =absorber=) absorbed, amazed
+
+=aburrido, -a= (_pp. of_ =aburrir=) bored
+
+=aburrirse de= be bored with
+
+=acá= here, hither
+
+=acabar= finish, come to an end;
+ =~ de= have just
+
+=acaloradamente= heatedly, earnestly
+
+=acaso= perhaps, perchance
+
+=acatar= respect, observe
+
+=acceso= _m._ access, attack (of illness or emotion)
+
+=acción= _f._ action
+
+=acento= _m._ accent, tone, voice
+
+=aceptar= accept
+
+=acerbo, -a= bitter
+
+=acercarse= approach
+
+=acero= _m._ steel; sword
+
+=acertar= _irreg._ hit by chance, guess rightly; happen to, succeed in
+
+=acompañado, -a= (_pp. of_ =acompañar=) accompanied
+
+=acompañar= accompany, escort
+
+=acordar= _irreg._ resolve, determine, grant (_used of king when he determines
+ something which he will later authorize with his official seal
+ and signature_);
+ =~se= remember, recall;
+ =~se de= remember
+
+=acosado, -a= (_pp. of_ =acosar=) pursued closely
+
+=acosar= harass, pursue, beset
+
+=actitud= _f._ attitude, position;
+ =en ~ de marcharse= as if about to go away
+
+=acto= _m._ act
+
+=actor= _m._ actor;
+ =primer ~= leading man
+
+=actriz= _f._ actress
+
+=acudir a= go to, attend, repair to, have recourse to
+
+=adalid= _m._ chief, champion
+
+=Adán= Adam
+
+=adelantar= advance;
+ =~se= advance, approach
+
+=adelante= ahead, forward
+
+=ademán= _m._ look, appearance, expression, gesture
+
+=además= besides, moreover
+
+=adentro= inside, within
+
+=adiós= good-by
+
+=adivinar= guess, foretell
+
+=admirable= admirable
+
+=admirar= admire, wonder at
+
+=adornar= adorn
+
+=adulador= _m._ flatterer
+
+=advertir= _irreg._ observe; give notice, give warning, acquaint
+
+=afán= _m._ anxiety, eagerness
+
+=afanoso, -a= anxious, eager
+
+=afectado, -a= (_pp. of_ =afectar=) affected
+
+=afectar= affect, feign
+
+=afectuoso, -a= affectionate
+
+=afición= _f._ fondness, attachment
+
+=afirmar= declare, assert
+
+=afirmativo, -a= affirmative
+
+=aflicción= _f._ affliction
+
+=afligirse= grieve, repine
+
+=afogonarse= miss fire
+
+=afrentar= affront, insult, shame
+
+=afuera= outside
+
+=agitado, -a= (_pp. of_ =agitar=) agitated
+
+=agitar= agitate, perturb; wave, shake;
+ =~se= be busied
+
+=agonía= _f._ last moments, agony
+
+=agotar= exhaust;
+ =~se= become exhausted
+
+=agua= _f._ water;
+ =hacer ~= leak
+
+=aguardar= wait for, await (expectantly)
+
+=agudo, -a= acute, shrewd
+
+=ah= ah, oh
+
+=ahí= there (near person addressed); here
+
+=ahogado, -a= (_pp. of_ =ahogar=) stifled, drowned;
+ =morir ~ en la orilla= _cf._ =orilla=
+
+=ahogar= stifle;
+ =~se= be smothered, be suffocated, be drowned
+
+=ahora= now;
+ =por ~= for the time being, now
+
+=ahorcar= hang
+
+=aire= _m._ air, expression, look, demeanor
+
+=ajeno, -a= strange, foreign, belonging to another, of another
+
+=al= = =a= + =el=
+
+=ala= _f._ wing
+
+=alabarda= _f._ halberd, pike
+
+=alabardero= _m._ halberdier, pikeman
+
+=alambicar= distill; be unnecessarily particular
+
+=alarde= _m._ ostentation, boast, manifestation;
+ =en regio ~= as if she were the sovereign himself, with royal show
+
+=alargar= extend, hold out
+
+=alborozo= _m._ gayety, joy, rejoicing
+
+=albur= _m._ first draw at monte; chance, risk;
+ =jugar un ~= take a risk, take a chance
+
+=alcaide= _m._ governor (of castle), warden, guardian
+
+=alcalde= _m._ mayor;
+ =~ mayor de casa y corte= judge who with his fellows
+ formed one fifth of chamber of Consejo de Castilla, _see note, l. 2340_
+
+=alcanzar= overtake, grasp, obtain, attain
+
+=alcázar= _m._ castle, palace
+
+=alcotán= _m._ lanner (hawk)
+
+=alegrarse de= rejoice in, be delighted at
+
+=alegre= cheerful, gay, joyous
+
+=alegría= _f._ joy, gladness
+
+=alejar= remove;
+ =~se= move away, go away;
+ =~ del bien= lead astray
+
+=alerta= vigilantly, on the watch
+
+=alfiler= _m._ pin;
+ =prender con ~es= pin up, pin on, pin together, _fig._ put together flimsily
+
+=alfombra= _f._ carpet
+
+=algarabía= _f._ jargon, gabble, hubbub
+
+=algo= something, anything, somewhat
+
+=alguacil= _m._ constable, bailiff
+
+=alguien= some one
+
+=algún= _see_ =alguno=
+
+=alguno, -a= some, any, some one
+
+=aliento= _m._ breath
+
+=alivio= _m._ relief
+
+=alma= _f._ soul, heart;
+ =del ~= beloved
+
+=alojamiento= _m._ lodgings
+
+=alquitara= _f._ still
+
+=alquitarado= (_pp. of_ =alquitarar=) =-a= distilled,
+ purified, put through a purifying process
+
+=alrededor= around, round about;
+ =~ de= about, around;
+ =a su ~= around her _etc._
+
+=alternativamente= alternately
+
+=alteza= _f._ highness
+
+=altivez= _f._ arrogance, pride
+
+=altivo, -a= arrogant, proud, haughty
+
+=alto, -a= high, noble; deep
+
+=altura= _f._ height, summit, heights
+
+=alumbrado, -a= (_pp. of_ =alumbrar=) lighted
+
+=alumbrador= _m._ torch-bearer, light-bearer
+
+=alumbrar= illuminate, enlighten, light
+
+=alzar= raise;
+ =~se= rise;
+ rebel
+
+=allá= there, thither;
+ =por ~= in that direction
+
+=allí= there;
+ =por ~= that way, there
+
+=amanecer= _irreg._ dawn
+
+=amante= loving
+
+=amante= _m. or f._ lover
+
+=amar= love
+
+=amargo, -a= bitter
+
+=amargura= _f._ bitterness
+
+=amarillo, -a= yellow
+
+=ambición= _f._ ambition
+
+=ambicionar= pursue as an ambition; covet
+
+=ambos, -as= both
+
+=amén= amen
+
+=amenazante= threatening, menacing
+
+=amigo, -a= friend
+
+=amistad= _f._ friendship
+
+=amor= _m._ love; _pl._ love affair(s)
+
+=amparo= _m._ protection, refuge
+
+=ancho, -a= broad
+
+=andar= _irreg._ go, walk, act, go about;
+ _often equivalent to_ =estar=;
+ =~ por las ramas= fix one's attention on
+ the least important part of the question, beat about the bush
+
+=ángel= _m._ angel;
+ =~ malo= evil genius
+
+=angustia= _f._ anguish, suffering
+
+=anhelar= long for, desire anxiously
+
+=aniquilar= annihilate, destroy
+
+=aniversario= anniversary
+
+=anochecer= _irreg._ become night, grow dark;
+ =al ~= at nightfall
+
+=ansia= _f._ anxiety, eagerness
+
+=ansiedad= _f._ anxiety;
+ =con ~= anxiously
+
+=ante= before, in front of
+
+=antecámara= _f._ antechamber
+
+=anterior= preceding, former
+
+=antes= formerly, before;
+ =~ de= before
+
+=anunciar= announce
+
+=añadir= add
+
+=año= _m._ year;
+ =al ~= yearly
+
+=aparato= _m._ pomp, ostentation, show
+
+=aparecer= _irreg._ appear
+
+=aparentar= make a false show, feign, sham
+
+=apartar= remove, put aside, part, withdraw;
+ =~se= withdraw, move away, leave
+
+=aparte= aside
+
+=apasionadamente= passionately
+
+=apelar= appeal
+
+=aplaudir= applaud
+
+=aplazar= postpone, delay
+
+=aposento= _m._ room, apartment
+
+=apoyarse= lean, rely on
+
+=apresuramiento= _m._ hastiness, eagerness
+
+=apretar= _irreg._ compress, hold, clutch;
+ distress, harass
+
+=aproximarse= approach
+
+=apuntar= aim
+
+=apurar= consume, drain, exhaust;
+ =~se= worry, fret
+
+=apuro= _m._ perplexity, difficulty, affliction, straits, want
+
+=aquel, -lla= that, the former
+
+=aquél, -lla= that one, the former
+
+=aquí= here, now;
+ =hacia ~= hither;
+ =por ~= hither, this way
+
+=árbol= _m._ tree
+
+=arcabuz= _m._ harquebus
+
+=arder= burn, glow
+
+=ardid= _m._ stratagem, cunning, trick
+
+=arma= _f._ arm, weapon;
+ _pl_. troops;
+ armorial bearings
+
+=arrancar= pull, tear, force out
+
+=arrastrar= drag, draw
+
+=arrebol= _m._ red sky
+
+=arreglar= arrange, dispose
+
+=arrepentido, -a= (_pp. of_ =arrepentirse=) repentant
+
+=arrepentirse= _irreg._ repent
+
+=arriba= above;
+ =hasta ~= (_l. 384_) as far as the top (of the steps)
+
+=arriesgado, -a= (_pp. of_ =arriesgar=) risky, hazardous
+
+=arriesgar= risk, venture
+
+=arrimar= approach, place near;
+ =~ un hombro= lend aid
+
+=arrimo= _m._ protection, support
+
+=arrodillarse= kneel
+
+=arrogancia= _f._ arrogance;
+ =con ~= arrogantly
+
+=arrojar= throw, fling, cast, hurl (away)
+
+=arruinar= ruin
+
+=artista= _m. or f._ artist
+
+=asaduras= _f. pl._ entrails;
+ =echar las ~= laugh one's head off
+
+=asaltar= assail; occur suddenly
+
+=asentimiento= _m._ assent
+
+=asesinar= assassinate, murder
+
+=asesino= _m._ murderer, assassin
+
+=así= thus, so, in this way
+
+=asir= _irreg._ seize, take, grasp;
+ =~se de= clutch, lean upon;
+ take advantage of, have recourse to
+
+=asomarse= show one's self, appear
+
+=asombrar= surprise, astonish;
+ =~se de= be astonished at, be surprised at
+
+=asombro= _m._ surprise, astonishment
+
+=aspecto= _m._ aspect, look
+
+=aspirar= aspire
+
+=astucia= _f._ astuteness, cunning
+
+=asunto= _m._ subject, matter, affair
+
+=asustar= frighten
+
+=atado, -a= (_pp. of_ =atar=) bound
+
+=atajar= stop, interrupt
+
+=atar= bind
+
+=atención= _f._ attention
+
+=atender= _irreg._ attend, pay attention;
+ =atendiendo a= out of respect for
+
+=atentamente= intently
+
+=aterrado, -a= (_pp. of_ =aterrar=) terrified
+
+=atesorar= treasure up, possess
+
+=Atocha= formerly a suburb southeast of Madrid
+
+=atragantar= choke
+
+=atrás= back, backward
+
+=atravesar= _irreg._ cross, traverse
+
+=atreverse a= dare to
+
+=atrio= _m._ porch, portico
+
+=audacia= _f._ audacity, boldness
+
+=audaz= (_pl._ =audaces=) bold
+
+=audiencia= _f._ audience
+
+=aun= _or_ =aún= yet, still, notwithstanding, even;
+ =ni ~= not even
+
+=aunque= although
+
+=aura= _f._ air
+
+=aurora= _f._ dawn
+
+=ausencia= _f._ absence
+
+=autor= _m._ author
+
+=auxiliar= help, aid
+
+=avanzar= advance
+
+=avisar= advise, warn, give notice of
+
+=aviso= _m._ warning, notice
+
+=ay= ah, alas;
+ =~ de vos= _etc._ alas for you _etc._
+
+=ayer= yesterday;
+ =su ~= his past
+
+=ayuda= _f._ help
+
+=ayudar= help
+
+=azar= _m._ accident, disappointment, hazard
+
+=azorado, -a= (_pp. of_ =azorar=) terrified, confused
+
+=azul= blue
+
+
+=báculo= _m._ staff
+
+=bailar= dance
+
+=baile= _m._ dance
+
+=bajada= _f._ descent
+
+=bajar= lower, descend
+
+=bajo, -a= low
+
+=bajo= under, beneath, subject to
+
+=bala= _f._ bullet
+
+=balcón= _m._ balcony
+
+=bandeja= _f._ tray, salver
+
+=barato, -a= cheap, cheaply
+
+=barbado, -a= bearded;
+ =muy ~= with a very long chin
+
+=barbarie= _f._ barbarousness, cruelty
+
+=bárbaro, -a= barbarous, cruel
+
+=bastante= enough;
+ considerably, sufficiently, quite
+
+=bastar= be enough, suffice
+
+=bastardo, -a= bastard, illegitimate
+
+=batalla= _f._ battle
+
+=batiente= _see_ =mandíbula=
+
+=beldad= _f._ beauty
+
+=Belona= Bellona, goddess of war, sister or wife of Mars
+
+=bello, -a= beautiful
+
+=bendito, -a= blessed
+
+=beneficiado, -a= (_pp. of_ =beneficiar=) object of benefit,
+ person for whom a benefit performance is given
+
+=beneficiar= benefit
+
+=beneficio= _m._ benefit;
+ =a ~ de= for the benefit of
+
+=beodo, -a= drunk, intoxicated
+
+=besamanos= _m._ act of kissing the hand, salute
+
+=besar= kiss
+
+=bicho= _m._ small insect;
+ coxcomb
+
+=bien= well;
+ very;
+ all right;
+ =~ que= although;
+ =ahora ~= now then;
+ this being so;
+ =más ~= rather
+
+=bien= _m._ good;
+ =nunca para el ~ fué tarde= it is never too late to mend
+
+=billete= _m._ note
+
+=bisoño, -a= inexperienced
+
+=bisoño= _m._ raw recruit, novice
+
+=blanco, -a= white
+
+=blasón= _m._ armorial bearings, blazon;
+ glory
+
+=boca= _f._ mouth;
+ =~ arriba= face upward, flat on one's back
+
+=boda(s)= _f._ wedding
+
+=bolsillo= _m._ pocket
+
+=bondad= _f._ goodness, kindness, clemency
+
+=Borgoña= _f._ Burgundy (_see note_)
+
+=Borja= _proper name_
+
+=borrar= blot, erase
+
+=Braganza= _see note_
+
+=bravo, -a= brave, excellent, fine;
+ bravo!
+
+=brazo= _m._ arm
+
+=breve= brief, short;
+ =en ~= in short, in a few words
+
+=brillar= shine, gleam
+
+=brindar= drink a health, toast;
+ offer
+
+=brotar= bud, spring up;
+ appear
+
+=brusco, -a= brusque, gruff
+
+=bueno, -a= good, faithful, noble, clear
+
+=bulto= _m._ object not clearly seen, form
+
+=bulla= _f._ crowd;
+ noise, shouting (of crowd);
+ =de ~= in high good humor
+
+=buque= _m._ ship
+
+=burlar= joke, make sport of, fool
+
+=busca= _f._ search;
+ =en ~ de= in search of, after
+
+=buscar= seek, look for, try to get
+
+
+=caballero= _m._ knight;
+ gentleman
+
+=caber= _irreg._ be contained in, fit, find room, have the right of admission;
+ =qué duda cabe= what doubt can there be
+
+=cabeza=, _f._ head;
+ =con la ~ baja= with bowed head
+
+=cabo= _m._ end;
+ =al ~= finally;
+ =al fin y al ~= after all is said and done
+
+=cacumen= _m._ top, head; understanding
+
+=cada= each;
+ =~ cual= each one
+
+=cadáver= _m._ dead body, corpse
+
+=caer= _irreg._ fall; be situated
+
+=calar= penetrate;
+ =~ el sombrero= press one's hat down tight
+
+=calavera= _f._ skull
+
+=calcular= calculate, reckon
+
+=Caliope= the muse of eloquence and heroic poetry and chief of the muses
+
+=calma= _f._ calm, peace
+
+=calmar= calm, soothe
+
+=calor= _m._ heat, warmth
+
+=calumniar= calumniate, slander
+
+=callar= be silent;
+ =~se= be silent
+
+=calle= _f._ street
+
+=cámara= _f._ chamber
+
+=cambiar (de)= change, exchange
+
+=cambio= _m._ change, exchange
+
+=camino= _m._ way, road
+
+=campanada= _f._ stroke (of bell)
+
+=campaña= _f._ campaign
+
+=cancel= _m._ glass screen in a
+ church or chapel behind which is the royal seat; extreme limit or boundary
+
+=candelabro= _m._ candelabrum
+
+=candelero= _m._ candlestick
+
+=cansado, -a= (_pp. of_ =cansar=) tired, weary
+
+=cansar= tire, weary;
+ =~se= grow tired
+
+=canto= _m._ song, singing
+
+=cañón= _m._ cannon;
+ =~ de metralla= long-barreled piece of artillery used
+ formerly for firing grape-shot
+
+=capa= _f._ cloak
+
+=capaz= (_pl._ =capaces=) capable, able
+
+=capilla= _f._ chapel
+
+=capitán= _m._ captain
+
+=capricho= _m._ whim
+
+=cara= _f._ face
+
+=caracol= _m._ snail; winding staircase
+
+=carácter= _m._ character, condition
+
+=caracterizar= characterize, act (a part), interpret (a part)
+
+=carcajada= _f._ burst of laughter
+
+=cárcel= _f._ prison
+
+=cariño= _m._ affection
+
+=cariñoso, -a= affectionate
+
+=carnicero= _m._ butcher
+
+=caro, -a= dear;
+ =venderse caro= be sold at a high price
+
+=carroza= _f._ state coach
+
+=carta= _f._ letter
+
+=casa= _f._ house
+
+=casado, -a= (_pp. of_ =casar=) married
+
+=casar= marry, give in marriage;
+ =~se con= marry
+
+=cascabel= _m._ bell
+
+=cascajo= _m._ gravel; rubbish
+
+=casi= almost
+
+=caso= _m._ case;
+ =hacer ~= pay attention;
+ =es el ~ que= the fact is that
+
+=castigar= punish
+
+=castigo= _m._ punishment
+
+=Castilla= _proper name_
+
+=Castilla= _f._ Castile
+
+=casualidad= _f._ chance, accident, coincidence
+
+=catorce= fourteen
+
+=causa= _f._ cause, reason;
+ =por ~ de= because of
+
+=causar= cause
+
+=cautelosamente= stealthily, cautiously; guilefully
+
+=cauteloso, -a= cautious, wary; stealthy, guileful
+
+=cazar= hunt, obtain by exercise of particular skill, catch
+
+=ceder= cede, grant, relinquish, give in
+
+=céfiro= _m._ zephyr
+
+=cegar= _irreg._ grow blind, be blinded
+
+=celebrar= celebrate, applaud
+
+=celestial= celestial, heavenly
+
+=celo= _m._ ardor, zeal;
+ =~s= jealousy
+
+=celoso, -a= jealous
+
+=centro= _m._ center
+
+=ceñir= _irreg._ gird, crown
+
+=ceñudo, -a= frowning, ominous
+
+=cerciorar= assure, affirm;
+ =~se de= make sure, ascertain
+
+=cerebro= _m._ brain, mind;
+ =trastornar el ~= turn one's head
+
+=ceremonia= _f._ ceremony
+
+=cerrado, -a= (_pp. of_ =cerrar=) closed, inclosed
+
+=cerrar= close;
+ =~ el paso a= stand in the way of, prevent
+
+=certero, -a= well aimed, unerring
+
+=cesar= cease;
+ =sin ~= incessantly
+
+=cetro= _m._ scepter
+
+=ciego, -a= blind
+
+=cielo= _m._ heaven, heavens, sky;
+ =¡~s!= great heavens!
+
+=cien= one hundred
+
+=cieno= _m._ filth, mud, mire
+
+=ciertamente= certainly, surely
+
+=cierto, -a= certain; certainly;
+ =por ~= to be sure;
+ =de ~= certainly
+
+=cinco= five;
+ =las ~= five o'clock
+
+=cisne= _m._ swan; singer, poet, bard
+
+=cita= _f._ appointment, rendezvous, tryst
+
+=citar= summon, make an appointment with
+
+=ciudad= _f._ city
+
+=cizaña= _f._ darnel;
+ =sembrar ~= sow tares, sow discord
+
+=clamor= _m._ clamor, uproar
+
+=clarito, -a= (_dimin. of_ =claro=);
+ =pronto y clarito= _see_ =pronto=
+
+=claro, -a= clear;
+ =claro está= it is evident
+
+=claustro= _m._ cloister
+
+=clavar= fix, nail, fasten, transfix
+
+=cobarde= cowardly;
+ =nunca pequé de ~= I was never guilty of cowardice
+
+=cobarde= _m._ coward
+
+=cobrar= gain, draw (pay); collect (debt)
+
+=coche= _m._ coach, carriage
+
+=codo= _m._ elbow;
+ =por cogote y ~s= _see_ =cogote=
+
+=cogote= _m._ back of neck;
+ =discurro hasta por ~ y codos= I am racking my brains with a club
+
+=cólera= _f._ anger
+
+=colérico, -a= choleric, angry
+
+=colmar (de, con)= heap upon, bestow liberally, fill, lavish upon
+
+=colocado, -a= (_pp. of_ =colocar=) placed
+
+=colocar= place
+
+=color= _m._ color;
+ =~es= color
+
+=colorar= paint, tinge, color;
+ =~se= blush, redden
+
+=columbrar= spy, discern at a distance, descry
+
+=columna= _f._ column, pillar
+
+=combatir= combat, fight
+
+=comenzar= _irreg._ commence, begin
+
+=comer= eat;
+ =~se= _adds a little energy to the verb_
+
+=comitiva= _f._ suite, retinue
+
+=como= as, as if, like, if only, provided that;
+ =~ puedo= as best I can;
+ =~ si= as if
+
+=cómo= how, why, what, is it possible;
+ =el ~= the way of it
+
+=compaña= _f._ company, escort
+
+=compañía= _f._ company
+
+=compasión= _f._ compassion, pity;
+ =por ~= for pity's sake
+
+=competir= _irreg._ compete, rival
+
+=complacencia= _f._ complacency
+
+=completar= to complete
+
+=completo, -a= complete
+
+=componer= _irreg._ compose
+
+=comprado, -a= (_pp. of_ =comprar=) bought
+
+=comprar= buy
+
+=comprender= understand, grasp
+
+=comprensión= _f._ comprehension
+
+=común= common
+
+=comunión= _f._ communion, fellowship, association
+
+=con= with, by, among; on account of;
+ =~ todo= after all, nevertheless
+
+=conceder= concede, grant
+
+=concentrado, -a= (_pp. of_ =concentrar=) concentrated, tense
+
+=conciliar= conciliate, compose, bring into agreement; arrange
+
+=concluir= _irreg._ conclude, finish
+
+=conde= _m._ count
+
+=condenado, -a= (_pp. of_ =condenar=) condemned
+
+=condición= _f._ condition, rank, class; stipulation, circumstance;
+ =~ oscura= obscure origin, low birth
+
+=conducido, -a= (_pp. of_ =conducir=) led, conducted
+
+=conducir= _irreg._ conduct, convoy, lead
+
+=confesar= _irreg._ confess
+
+=confesión= _f._ confession
+
+=confianza= _f._ confidence
+
+=confiar= trust, hope, have confidence
+
+=conforme= alike, corresponding to, as;
+ =~ a= consistent with;
+ =según y ~= _see_ =según=
+
+=confundir= confuse, confound;
+ =mezquino entre los hombres me confundo= I am worthless as men
+go;
+ =~se= be bewildered, be perplexed, be puzzled
+
+=confusión= _f._ confusion
+
+=confuso, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =confundir=) confused, in confusion
+
+=conjetura= _f._ conjecture, guess
+
+=conjurar= conjure; implore; avert
+
+=conjuro= _m._ incantation, charm; entreaty
+
+=conmigo= with me, on my side
+
+=conocer= _irreg._ know, be acquainted with, recognize
+
+=conocido, -a= (_pp. of_ =conocer=) known, recognized, well known
+
+=conque= so then
+
+=conquista= _f._ conquest
+
+=conquistar= win
+
+=consagrado, -a= (_pp. of_ =consagrar=) consecrated
+
+=consagrar= consecrate, devote; direct
+
+=conseguir= _irreg._ obtain, attain, succeed
+
+=consejo= _m._ council; advice, counsel
+
+=conservar= keep
+
+=consignar= consign, devote; state in writing
+
+=consigo= with _or_ by himself _etc._
+
+=consonancia= _f._ consonance, rime
+
+=consonante= _m._ a rime
+
+=conspirar= conspire, plot
+
+=constar= _impers._ be clear, be evident, be recorded
+
+=consuelo= _m._ consolation, comfort
+
+=consultar= consult; advise; determine (of administrative body)
+
+=consumir= consume
+
+=contacto= _m._ contact, touch
+
+=contado, -a= (_pp. of_ =contar=) counted, told;
+ =por de ~= of course
+
+=contar= _irreg._ count, tell, relate;
+ =~ con= count upon, reckon with
+
+=contemplar= contemplate, regard, watch
+
+=contener= _irreg._ contain
+
+=contentamiento= _m._ contentment, satisfaction
+
+=contentar= content, please
+
+=contento, -a= content, satisfied, happy, pleased
+
+=contento= _m._ contentment
+
+=contexto= _m._ context, contents
+
+=contigo= with you
+
+=continuación= _f._ continuation;
+ =a ~= below
+
+=contra= against;
+ =en mi ~= against me, to my disadvantage
+
+=contrario, -a= opposed, contrary;
+ =por el ~= on the contrary
+
+=contrario= _m._ opponent, antagonist, adversary
+
+=contraste= _m._ contrast
+
+=convencer= convince
+
+=conveniencia= _f._ convention, convenience
+
+=conveniente= suitable, convenient
+
+=convenir= _irreg._ suit, become, be advantageous
+
+=convento= _m._ convent
+
+=conversación= _f._ conversation; subject of conversation
+
+=convertido, -a= (_pp. of_ =convertir=) converted, changed
+
+=convertir= _irreg._ convert
+
+=convicción= _f._ conviction, firm belief
+
+=convulsión= _f._ convulsion
+
+=convulsivamente= convulsively
+
+=convulsivo, -a= convulsive
+
+=copa= _f._ cup, goblet, vase
+
+=copiar= copy
+
+=corazón= _m._ heart; courage
+
+=corchete= _m._ bailiff
+
+=cordero= _m._ lamb
+
+=corona= _f._ crown, diadem
+
+=coronar= crown
+
+=Corpus= _see note_
+
+=corredor= _m._ corridor
+
+=correr= run, circulate
+
+=corro= _m._ group, circle
+
+=cortado, -a= (_pp. of_ =cortar=) cut; broken (of phrase)
+
+=cortar= cut, cut off, cut out
+
+=corte= _f._ court; capital
+
+=cortesano, -a= pertaining to the court, courtier
+
+=cortesano= _m._ courtier
+
+=cortesía= _f._ courtesy, compliment, attention, bow
+
+=corto, -a= short;
+ =~ de vista= near-sighted
+
+=cosa= _f._ thing, matter, affair;
+ =~s de Quevedo son= it is some folly of Quevedo's,
+ it is some prank of Quevedo's;
+ =~ es clara= it is clear enough
+
+=costa= _f._ cost;
+ =a ~ de= at the cost of
+
+=costumbre= _f._ custom;
+ =es ~= it is customary
+
+=costurera= _f._ seamstress, dress-maker
+
+=cota= _f._ coat of mail; armor
+
+=creador, -a= creator
+
+=crear= create
+
+=crecer= _irreg._ grow
+
+=credencial= lending credit, lending authority
+
+=credencial= _f._ credential
+
+=credo= _m._ creed;
+ =con el ~ en la boca= facing death or danger
+
+=creer= believe, think
+
+=criba= _f._ crib
+
+=crimen= _m._ crime, guilt
+
+=crispado, -a= (_pp. of_ =crispar=) clenched
+
+=cristiano, -a= Christian
+
+=Cristo= Christ;
+ =por ~= _an emphatic oath_, by heavens!
+
+=cruel= cruel
+
+=crujir= crackle, creak
+
+=cruz= _f._ cross
+
+=cruzado, -a= (_pp. of_ =cruzar=);
+ =~ de brazos, con los brazos cruzados=, with folded arms
+
+=cruzar= cross, traverse
+
+=cuadrar= suit, be appropriate
+
+=cual= like, as;
+ =~ nunca= as never before;
+ =cada ~= each one
+
+=cuál= which, which one
+
+=cualquier= _see_ =cualquiera=
+
+=cualquiera= whatever, whoever, anybody, any;
+ =ser un ~= be of no account, be a nobody
+
+=cuando= when, as, since
+
+=cuándo= when?
+
+=cuanto, -a= how much (_pl._ how many), as much, as much as,
+ all that, what, how;
+ =~ más... más= the more... the more;
+ =~ menos... menos= the less... the less
+
+=cuánto, -a= how much, how; _pl._ how many, how much, how!
+
+=cuarteto= _m._ quatrain
+
+=cuarto, -a= fourth
+
+=cuatro= four
+
+=cubierto, -a= (_pp. of_ =cubrir=) covered
+
+=cubrir= _irreg._ cover;
+ =~se= cover one's head
+
+=cuchillada= _f._ knife-cut, slash with a knife; quarrel
+
+=cuchillo= _m._ knife
+
+=cuenta= _f._ account;
+ =eso de mi ~ corre= that is my affair;
+ =tener en ~= take into account, remember
+
+=cuento= _m._ story, tale;
+ =~ de alabarda= ferrule, end of halberd
+
+=cuerdo, -a= sensible, wise
+
+=cuerpo= _m._ body, substance;
+ =tomar más ~= grow firmer
+
+=cuestión= _f._ question, subject, matter under consideration
+
+=cuidado= _m._ care, pains
+
+=cuidar= take care
+
+=cuita= _f._ affliction, trouble
+
+=culebra= _f._ serpent, snake
+
+=culpa= _f._ blame, fault, guilt
+
+=cumplido, -a= (_pp. of_ =cumplir=) large, full, ample;
+ =cumplida merced= signal favor
+
+=cumplir= fulfill, carry out, execute; be fit, be convenient
+
+=curiosidad= _f._ curiosity
+
+=curioso, -a= curious, inquiring
+
+
+=chacota= _f._ uproarious mirth
+
+=chancero, -a= jocose, merry
+
+=chanza= _f._ joke, jest;
+ =estar de ~= be joking, be in a joking mood
+
+=chato, -a= flat, flat-nosed;
+ =chata razón= stunted intellect
+
+=chist= ssh, hush
+
+=chiste= _m._ joke
+
+=chistoso, -a= cheerful, funny
+
+
+=dado, -a= (_pp. of_ =dar=) given to, devoted to
+
+=dama= _f._ lady
+
+=dar= _irreg._ give, cause;
+ =~ con= find, come upon;
+ =~ en= strike, touch, happen, come to;
+ =~ fin= end, come to an end;
+ =~ muerte= kill;
+ =~ muestras= show signs;
+ =~ un paso= take a step;
+ =~ principio= begin;
+ =~ la vuelta= return;
+ =~ la hora= strike the hour;
+ =un soneto da catorce= a sonnet makes fourteen
+
+=de= of, from, for, through, at, in, by, with, than;
+ =~ cierto= certainly;
+ =~ improviso= unexpectedly;
+ =~ nuevo= again, anew;
+ =~ seguro= surely, undoubtedly
+
+=deber= owe, ought, must, be to
+
+=deber= _m._ duty
+
+=debido, -a= (_pp. of_ =deber=) due
+
+=débil= weak, fragile, feeble
+
+=decir= _irreg._ say;
+ =es ~= that is
+
+=declarar= declare
+
+=decoración= _f._ setting
+
+=decoro= _m._ respect, reverence due a person
+
+=dedicar= dedicate, devote
+
+=dedo= _m._ finger
+
+=defender= _irreg._ defend
+
+=defensa= _f._ defense
+
+=deferencia= _f._ deference, condescension
+
+=dejar= leave, leave off, cease, let, permit;
+ =~ de= (_infin._) cease _etc._;
+ =~ caer= drop;
+ =~ paso= give way before, let pass
+
+=del= = =de= + =el=
+
+=delante= in front, before;
+ =~ de= before, in front of
+
+=delirar= be delirious, rave; talk nonsense
+
+=delirio= _m._ delirium
+
+=delito= _m._ crime
+
+=demanda= _f._ demand, petition, request
+
+=demás= further, besides, in addition;
+ =lo ~= the rest;
+ =los ~= the rest, the others;
+ _with a pl. without art._ other
+
+=demasiado, -a= too much, too many
+
+=demonio= _m._ devil; the devil! the deuce!
+
+=demora= _f._ delay
+
+=dentro= within, inside;
+ =~ de= within, inside of
+
+=derecho, -a= straight; right (_opposed to_ =izquierdo=)
+
+=derecho= straight, direct, directly
+
+=derechura= _f._: =en ~= directly, straight
+
+=derrocar= overthrow, demolish
+
+=derrumbarse= fall headlong; crumble away
+
+=desafuero= _m._ injustice, outrage
+
+=desaliento= _m._ dismay, dejection
+
+=desamparo= _m._ abandonment, helplessness
+
+=desaparecer= _irreg._ disappear
+
+=desatarse= break loose, break out
+
+=desatinado, -a= (_pp. of_ =desatinar=) wild, incoherent, foolish
+
+=desatino= _m._ foolish act, folly, error
+
+=desazón= _f._ displeasure, annoyance, offense
+
+=descansado, -a= (_pp. of_ =descansar=) easy, quiet; comfortable, at ease
+
+=descansar= rest
+
+=descanso= _m._ rest
+
+=descolorido, -a= discolored, pale
+
+=desconcertar= _irreg._ disconcert, disturb, confuse
+
+=descubierto, -a= (_pp. of_ =descubrir=) uncovered, bare
+
+=descubrir= _irreg._ reveal, discover, uncover
+
+=desde= from, since;
+ =~ luego= at once;
+ =~ que= since, that
+
+=desdén= _m._ disdain, scorn
+
+=desdeñosamente= disdainfully
+
+=desdeñoso, -a= disdainful, scornful
+
+=desdichado, -a= unhappy, unfortunate
+
+=desdoblar= unfold
+
+=desear= desire, wish
+
+=desechar= reject, put aside
+
+=desembarazarse= uncover one's self, disembarrass one's self;
+ =~ de= relieve one's self of
+
+=desengaño= _m._ discovery of an error, disillusionment, disappointment
+
+=desentonado, -a= (_pp. of_ =desentonar=) out of tune, gruff
+
+=desenvainar= unsheathe, draw
+
+=desesperación= _f._ desperation, despair; passion
+
+=desfallecimiento= _m._ weakness, dejection
+
+=desfilar= defile, march by files, pass in review
+
+=desgarrar= rend, tear
+
+=desgracia= _f._ misfortune;
+ =por ~= unfortunately
+
+=desgraciado, -a= unfortunate, object of misfortune
+
+=deshacerse de= _irreg._ get rid of
+
+=deshonrar= dishonor
+
+=designio= _m._ design, plan, intention
+
+=desigual= unequal
+
+=desleírse= _irreg._ dilute, weaken, dissolve, melt
+
+=desmán= _m._ excess in words or action, insulting breach of etiquette, affront
+
+=desmayado, -a= (_pp. of_ =desmayar=) fainting, in a faint
+
+=desmayar= be dispirited; dismay, discourage;
+ =~se= faint, grow faint
+
+=desnudo, -a= naked, bare, drawn
+
+=desollar= _irreg._ flay, skin
+
+=desorden= _m._ disorder, confusion, turmoil
+
+=despacio= slow, slowly, at leisure
+
+=despacito= (_dimin. of_ =despacio=) at leisure
+
+=despacho= _m._ dispatch, official communication
+
+=despecho= _m._ spite, malevolence
+
+=despedida= _f._ good-by, farewell;
+ =hacer ~= take leave of
+
+=despedirse de= _irreg._ say good-by to, take leave of
+
+=despreciado, -a= (_pp. of_ =despreciar=) scorned
+
+=despreciar= scorn, despise
+
+=despreciativo, -a= scornful
+
+=desprecio= _m._ scorn
+
+=después= after, then, later, afterward;
+ =~ de= after
+
+=desterrado, -a= (_pp. of_ =desterrar=) banished
+
+=desterrar= _irreg._ banish
+
+=destierro= _m._ banishment, exile
+
+=destino= _m._ destiny, fate
+
+=destruir= _irreg._ destroy
+
+=desvanecer= _irreg._ vanish
+
+=desvarío= _m._ extravagant action, delirium;
+ =con ~= distractedly, wildly
+
+=desventura= _f._ ill fortune, calamity, misery, unhappiness
+
+=desventurado, -a= unhappy, luckless
+
+=desviar= turn aside, ward off, thrust aside;
+ =~se= turn aside, turn away, take the wrong road
+
+=detener= _irreg._ detain, stop;
+ =~se= stop
+
+=determinar= determine, decide
+
+=detrás= back, behind;
+ =~ de= after, in pursuit of;
+ =por ~= behind, from behind
+
+=deuda= _f._ debt
+
+=devoción= _f._ devotion;
+ _pl._ devotions (religious)
+
+=devolver= _irreg._ return, restore
+
+=día= _m._ day, light of day;
+ =algún ~= some day, once;
+ =todo el ~= all day
+
+=diablo= _m._ devil;
+ =qué ~s= what the deuce
+
+=dicha= _f._ happiness
+
+=dicho, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =decir=) said, (the) aforesaid, same
+
+=dicho= _m._ saying
+
+=dichoso, -a= happy, prosperous, fortunate
+
+=diente= _m._ tooth
+
+=diestro, -a= skillful, expert, prudent, cunning
+
+=diez= ten;
+ =para las ~= for ten o'clock
+
+=diferente= different
+
+=diferir= _irreg._ defer, delay, postpone
+
+=difícil= difficult
+
+=dignarse= deign, condescend
+
+=dignidad= _f._ dignity
+
+=digno, -a= worthy
+
+=dilación= _f._ delay
+
+=dilatarse= broaden, grow broad
+
+=dinero= _m._ money, funds
+
+=dios= _m._ god, God;
+ =vive ~= _see_ =vivir=;
+ =gran ~= great heavens!
+ =~ mío= heavens!
+
+=dirección= _f._ direction
+
+=director= _m._ director;
+ =~ de escena= stage-manager
+
+=dirigir= direct, address;
+ =~se= go, turn (toward), make one's way (toward)
+
+=discreción= _f._ discretion, judgment, prudence
+
+=discreto, -a= discreet; witty
+
+=discurrir= reflect, reason; plan, scheme
+
+=disgusto= _m._ disgust, annoyance, unpleasantness
+
+=disiparse= fade away
+
+=disparar= shoot, fire off
+
+=disparo= _m._ discharge, shot (of firearm)
+
+=dispensar= dispense, grant, excuse
+
+=disponer= _irreg._ arrange, dispose, order, direct
+
+=dispuesto, -a= (_pp. of_ =disponer=) prepared, ready
+
+=disputar= dispute, debate, argue, quarrel
+
+=distancia= _f._ distance
+
+=distinción= _f._ distinction
+
+=distinguido, -a= (_pp. of_ =distinguir=) distinguished, eminent
+
+=distinguir= _irreg._ distinguish, single out
+
+=distinto, -a= distinct, different
+
+=distracción= _f._ distraction, absent-mindedness
+
+=diversión= _f._ diversion, amusement
+
+=divertido, -a= (_pp. of_ =divertir=) amusing
+
+=divertir= _irreg._ divert, turn away; amuse
+
+=diz= it is said, people say
+
+=doblar= double, bend
+
+=doblez= (_pl._ =dobleces=) fold, crease;
+ =en tres dobleces= thrice folded
+
+=dogal= _m._ halter, noose, hangman's rope
+
+=dolor= _m._ grief, sorrow, pain
+
+=dominado, -a= (_pp. of_ =dominar=) dominated;
+ =~ por la situación= overwhelmed by the situation
+
+=dominador, -a= dominating
+
+=dominador= _m._ dominator
+
+=dominar= dominate
+
+=dominio= _m._ dominion
+
+=dominión= _f._ dominion
+
+=don, doña=, _title of courtesy given to gentleman or lady, now equivalent
+to_ Mr. _etc., but used only before given names_
+
+=donaire= _m._ witticism, joke, humor
+
+=donde= where, in which;
+ =en ~= in which;
+ =a ~= whither
+
+=dónde= where?
+ =a ~= whither?
+ =en ~= where?
+
+=doquier= anywhere, wherever, everywhere
+
+=dormir= _irreg._ sleep;
+ =~se= fall asleep
+
+=dos= two;
+ =los (las) ~= both
+
+=dosel= _m._ canopy, dais
+
+=drama= _m._ drama, play
+
+=ducado= _m._ duchy
+
+=ducho, -a= skillful, experienced
+
+=duda= _f._ doubt
+
+=dudar= doubt, hesitate;
+ =~ de= doubt
+
+=duelo= _m._ duel, combat; sorrow;
+ =duelo ni quebranto= _see note_
+
+=dueña= _f._ duenna, lady-in-waiting
+
+=dulce= sweet, gentle
+
+=dulzura= _f._ sweetness, gentleness;
+ =con ~= graciously, gently
+
+=duque= _m._ duke
+
+=duquesa= _f._ duchess
+
+=durante= during
+
+=dureza= _f._ rigor, severity
+
+=duro, -a= hard, cruel; thankless, costly
+
+
+=e= and
+
+=ea= come!
+
+=eco= _m._ echo
+
+=echado, -a= (_pp. of_ =echar=):
+ =con el velo echado= with her veil drawn, with her veil let down
+
+=echar= throw, cast;
+ =~ el aliento= blow;
+ =~ abajo= pull down, draw down;
+ =~ a reír= burst out laughing
+
+=edad= _f._ age
+
+=el, la, lo=, _pl._ =los, las=, the
+
+=él=, _pl._ =ellos=, he, him, it
+
+=elefante= _m._ elephant
+
+=elegir= _irreg._ choose
+
+=elogio= _m._ eulogy, praise
+
+=ella= she, her
+
+=ello= it;
+ =~ es que= the fact is that;
+ =~ por ~= a fair exchange
+
+=embajador= _m._ ambassador
+
+=embargo=: =sin ~= nevertheless
+
+=emboscada= _f._ ambuscade, surprise
+
+=embozado, -a= _pp. of_ =embozar=
+
+=embozarse= muffle one's self, fasten upper part (=embozo=) of cloak about
+ neck and throat
+
+=embozo= _m._ muffler, fold of cloak that covers lower part of face; disguise
+
+=eminente= eminent, signal, distinguished
+
+=emoción= _f._ emotion
+
+=empeñarse en= persist, endeavor, insist upon
+
+=empezar= _irreg._ begin
+
+=empinar= raise;
+ =~ el codo= raise the glass, crook one's elbow
+
+=empresa= _f._ undertaking, enterprise
+
+=en= in, on, upon, at, into, to;
+ =~ mi contra= against me, to my disadvantage;
+ =~ cuanto= as soon as;
+ =~ pos de= after, behind;
+ =~ torno de= about, around
+
+=enaltecer= _irreg._ raise aloft, exalt;
+ heighten
+
+=enamorar= enamor, inspire love;
+ charm;
+ =~se de=, =~se con=, fall in love with
+
+=encaminar= guide, direct;
+ =~se= go toward, start
+
+=encanto= _m._ charms, attractions
+
+=encarado, -a= (_pp. of_ =encarar=):
+ =mal ~= ill-featured, badly adjusted
+
+=encarar= face, point;
+ =~se con= face, confront
+
+=encarecer= _irreg._ extol, exaggerate, emphasize
+
+=encarecimiento= _m._ exaggeration
+
+=encargar= recommend, charge, commend;
+ =~se de= take charge of, take upon one's self
+
+=encender= _irreg._ kindle
+
+=encerrar= _irreg._ inclose, contain
+
+=encoger= contract; discourage;
+ =~se de hombros= shrug one's shoulders
+
+=encomendar= _irreg._ commend, commit, entrust
+
+=encomio= _m._ encomium, eulogy, praise
+
+=encono= _m._ malevolence, ill will
+
+=encontrar= _irreg._ find, encounter; see;
+ =~se= be
+
+=encresparse= grow rough, grow choppy (of sea)
+
+=encubierto, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =encubrir=) hidden, masked
+
+=encuentro= _m._ encounter, meeting;
+ =salir al ~ de= come out to meet
+
+=endulzar= sweeten, soften, lighten
+
+=enemigo, -a= hostile
+
+=enemigo= _m._ enemy
+
+=énfasis= _m._ emphasis
+
+=enfermo, -a= ill, sick, suffering
+
+=engañar= deceive;
+ =~se= make a mistake, be mistaken
+
+=engaste= _m._ setting (of jewels)
+
+=engolfado, -a= (_pp. of_ =engolfar=) engulfed, absorbed
+
+=engrandecer= _irreg._ aggrandize, ennoble, exalt
+
+=enhiesto, -a= upright, erect
+
+=enjaulado, -a= (_pp. of_ =enjaular=) caged, confined
+
+=enjuto, -a= dry
+
+=enmudecer= _irreg._ become mute, become silent
+
+=enojar= annoy, trouble, vex, offend;
+ =~se= be annoyed, become angry
+
+=enojo= _m._ annoyance, offense;
+ =si no lo habéis por ~= if it be not offensive to you
+
+=enredijo= _m._ tangle
+
+=enredo= _m._ tangle, entanglement; mischief
+
+=ensangrentado, -a= blood-stained
+
+=ensangrentar= _irreg._ stain with blood
+
+=ensartar= string together, link together;
+ =~ mil gracias= be full of jokes
+
+=ensayo= _m._ assay, trial, experiment
+
+=enseñar= show
+
+=ensimismado, -a= (_pp. of_ =ensimismarse=) absorbed in thought
+
+=entendedor= _m._:
+ =a buen ~= (_the full form of the proverb is_ =a buen entendedor,
+ breve hablador=, _or_ =al buen entendedor, pocas palabras=)
+ a word to the wise is sufficient
+
+=entender= _irreg._ understand
+
+=entendido, -a= (_pp. of_ =entender=) understood
+
+=enterar= inform;
+ =~se de= find out about
+
+=enternecer= _irreg._ move to pity, soften, affect;
+ =~se= soften, be affected
+
+=entero, -a= complete, entire
+
+=entonces= then
+
+=entrada= _f._ entrance; admission, admittance
+
+=entrambos, -as= both
+
+=entrañas= _f._ inmost feelings
+
+=entrar= enter, bring in;
+ =entra= (_in stage directions_) exit
+
+=entre= between, in the midst of, in, among
+
+=entreabierto, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =entreabrir=) half opened
+
+=entregado, -a= (_pp. of_ =entregar=) surrendered
+
+=entregar= deliver, hand over, surrender, entrust
+
+=entretanto= in the meantime
+
+=entretenido, -a= (_pp. of_ =entretener=) amusing, interesting
+
+=envainar= sheathe
+
+=enviado, -a= (_pp. of_ =enviar=) sent, envoy
+
+=enviar= send
+
+=envidia= _f._ envy
+
+=envilecer= _irreg._ vilify, debase, degrade
+
+=epitafio= _m._ epitaph
+
+=época= _f._ epoch, period
+
+=equivocación= _f._ mistake, misunderstanding
+
+=equivocarse= be mistaken
+
+=erguido, -a= (_pp. of_ =erguir=) erect, straight
+
+=errar= _irreg._ err, wander, be mistaken
+
+=error= _m._ error, mistake
+
+=escalera= _f._ staircase
+
+=escalón= _m._ step
+
+=escándalo= _m._ scandal; astonishment
+
+=escapar(se)= escape
+
+=escaso, -a= scanty, trifling
+
+=escena= _f._ scene, stage
+
+=esclavo= _m._ slave
+
+=escoger= choose
+
+=escolta= _f._ escort
+
+=escoltar= escort
+
+=esconder= hide
+
+=escondido, -a= (_pp. of_ =esconder=) hidden
+
+=Escorial= _m._ the Escorial, _see note_
+
+=escorpión= _m._ scorpion
+
+=escriba= _m._ scribe
+
+=escribir= _irreg._ write
+
+=escrito, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =escribir=) written
+
+=escrito= _m._ writing, manuscript; paper
+
+=escuchar= listen, hearken to, hear
+
+=escudriñar= scrutinize, examine
+
+=escupir= spit
+
+=ese, -a=, _pl._ =esos, -as=, that (near person addressed); those
+
+=ése, -a=, _pl._ =ésos, -as=, that one, those
+
+=esencia= _f._ essence
+
+=esforzarse= _irreg._ make efforts, struggle
+
+=esfuerzo= _m._ effort
+
+=eso= that;
+ =~ es= that is right;
+ =por ~= for that reason, that is why
+
+=espacio= _m._ space, place; interval of time;
+ =en breve ~= quickly
+
+=espada= _f._ sword
+
+=espalda= _f._ back, shoulders;
+ =a ~s de= back of, behind;
+ =a la ~= at the back, in the rear, up stage;
+ =llevar a la ~= carry, wear on one's back
+
+=espantajo= _m._ scarecrow
+
+=espantar= terrify, frighten
+
+=espanto= _m._ consternation, fright, wonder
+
+=España= _f._ Spain
+
+=español, -a= Spanish
+
+=español= _m._ Spaniard
+
+=espectro= _m._ specter, shade
+
+=espejo= _m._ mirror
+
+=esperanza= _f._ hope
+
+=esperar= await, expect, hope
+
+=espía= _m. f._ spy
+
+=espíritu= _m._ spirit
+
+=esposa= _f._ wife
+
+=esposo= _m._ husband
+
+=espuma= _f._ foam;
+ =~s= waves, seas
+
+=esquina= _f._ corner
+
+=esquivar= shun, avoid, evade
+
+=estado= _m._ state, nation
+
+=estallar= burst
+
+=estar= _irreg._ be; suit, become;
+ =está bien= all right;
+ =~ para= be about to;
+ =no está= he is not here
+
+=este, -a=, _pl._ =estos, -as=, this, these
+
+=éste, -a=, _pl._ =éstos, -as=, this one, these; the latter
+
+=estimar= esteem;
+ =~ en mucho= value highly
+
+=esto= this
+
+=estorbar= molest, prevent, interfere with, block
+
+=estorbo= _m._ obstacle, hindrance
+
+=estrago= _m._ damage
+
+=estrambote= _m._ verses added to a sonnet or other
+ metrical combination for the sake of greater emphasis or humor; envoy
+
+=estrella= _f._ star; destiny;
+ =con mala ~= ill-starred
+
+=estrellarse= be dashed to pieces, be shivered, be shattered
+
+=estremecerse= _irreg._ shudder
+
+=estrenarse= be presented for the first time (of a drama)
+
+=estrujar= press, crush, crumple
+
+=estudio= _m._ study
+
+=estupendo, -a= stupendous
+
+=eternidad= _f._ eternity
+
+=eterno, -a= eternal
+
+=Europa= _f._ Europe
+
+=evitar= avoid, shun, save
+
+=exagerado, -a= (_pp. of_ =exagerar=) exaggerated
+
+=exaltación= _f._ exaltation, passion
+
+=examinar= examine, investigate
+
+=excelencia= _f._ excellence; Excellency (_usual
+ title given to persons high in office or of istinction_)
+
+=excelente= excellent
+
+=excelso, -a= high, sublime
+
+=excusado, -a= (_pp. of_ =excusar=) excused, reserved;
+ =calle ~= unfrequented street
+
+=excusar= excuse, omit
+
+=execrar= execrate, abominate
+
+=exhortar= exhort, admonish
+
+=exigir= demand
+
+=existencia= _f._ existence
+
+=existir= exist
+
+=expedito, -a= free, open
+
+=experiencia= _f._ experience
+
+=expirar= expire
+
+=explicar= explain
+
+=expresar= express
+
+=expresión= _f._ expression
+
+=exquisito, -a= exquisite
+
+=exterior= exterior, outside
+
+=extinguido, -a= (_pp. of_ =extinguir=) extinguished, extinct
+
+=extinguir= extinguish
+
+=extranjero, -a= foreign, strange
+
+=extranjero= _m._ foreigner, stranger
+
+=extrañar= marvel at, astonish;
+ =~se de= marvel at
+
+=extrañeza= _f._ strangeness; surprise, wonderment
+
+=extraño, -a= strange, singular, extravagant, foreign
+
+=extraordinario, -a= extraordinary
+
+=extravío= _m._ deviation; disorder
+ =con ~= incoherently
+
+=extremo, -a= extreme;
+ =en ~= extremely
+
+
+=fácil= easy
+
+=fachada= _f._ façade
+
+=falsificar= falsify, forge
+
+=falso, -a= false
+
+=faltar= be lacking, fail;
+ =lo que de Dios os falta= what God has in store for you
+
+=fama= _f._ fame, reputation
+
+=familia= _f._. family
+
+=famoso, -a= famous; great, excellent
+
+=farol= _m._ lantern
+
+=farolillo= _m._ (_dimin. of_ =farol=) little lantern
+
+=fascinar= fascinate
+
+=fastidio= _m._ annoyance
+
+=fatal= fatal, ominous
+
+=fausto, -a= happy, prosperous
+
+=favor= _m._ favor
+
+=favorito= _m._ favorite
+
+=faz= _f._ face
+
+=fe= _f._ faith;
+ =a ~= in truth, in good earnest;
+ =por mi ~ de caballero= on my sacred honor, on my word as a gentleman
+
+=febrero= _m._ February
+
+=felicidad= _f._ happiness
+
+=Felipe= Philip
+
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+
+=ferocidad= _f._ ferocity
+
+=feroz= (_pl._ =feroces=) ferocious, wild, savage, rebellious
+
+=festejo= _m._ feast, entertainment
+
+=fiel= faithful, trustworthy
+
+=fijamente= fixedly
+
+=fijarse en= fix eyes _or_ attention on
+
+=fijo, -a= fixed
+
+=fila= _f._ rank, row, file
+
+=filosofía= _f._ philosophy
+
+=fin= _m. and f._ end, conclusion; purpose;
+ =al ~ y al cabo= after all is said and done, finally;
+ =dar ~= finish;
+ =en ~= finally, after all, in short;
+ =a ~ de que= in order that;
+ =por ~= finally
+
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+
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+
+=firma= _f._ signature
+
+=firmar= sign
+
+=firme= firm, steady
+
+=Flandes= _m._ Flanders
+
+=flor= _f._ flower
+
+=fondo= _m._ background (center), bottom, back (of stage)
+
+=forma= _f._ form
+
+=formar= form
+
+=fortuna= _f._ fortune, chance;
+ =por ~= perchance
+
+=forzado, -a= (_pp. of_ =forzar=) forced
+
+=frágil= fragile, frail, weak
+
+=Francisco= _proper name_
+
+=frase= _f._ phrase, sentence
+
+=frenesí= _m._ frenzy
+
+=frente= _f._ forehead, brow;
+ =en ~ de= in front of, opposite;
+ =al ~ de= in front of, at the beginning of;
+ =~ a ~= face to face
+
+=frescura= _f._ coolness, tranquillity
+
+=frialdad= _f._ coldness;
+ =con ~= coldly
+
+=frío, -a= cold
+
+=friolera= _f._ trifle
+
+=frotar= rub
+
+=fruto= _m._ fruit
+
+=fuego= _m._ fire
+
+=Fuenterrabía= _see note_
+
+=fuera= outside;
+ =~ de= outside of, beyond, away from, besides;
+ =~ de sí= beside himself
+
+=fuerte= strong, powerful; bitter
+
+=fuerza= _f._ force, strength, violence;
+ =es ~= it is necessary
+
+=fuga= _f._ flight, escape
+
+=fugaz= (_pl._ =fugaces=) fleeting
+
+=funesto, -a= sinister, fatal
+
+=furibundo, -a= furious
+
+=furioso, -a= furious
+
+=furor= _m._ fury
+
+=futuro, -a= future
+
+
+=gala= _f._ parade, present, honor
+
+=galán= gallant
+
+=galán= _m._ gallant
+
+=galería= _f._ gallery
+
+=gana= _f._ desire;
+ =de mala ~= unwillingly, reluctantly
+
+=ganado, -a= (_pp. of_ =ganar=) won; winner
+
+=ganar= gain, conquer, win
+
+=ganso= _m._ goose
+
+=Gaspar= _proper name_
+
+=gastar= spend, waste; wear, use
+ (habitually); act, behave (e.g. =~ mal humor= be ill-humored)
+
+=gemido= _m._ groan, moan
+
+=gemir= _irreg._ groan; suffer
+
+=general= general
+
+=general= _m._ general
+
+=generoso, -a= generous, noble
+
+=genio= _m._ genius, character, temper, humor; embodiment
+
+=gente= _f._ people, men
+
+=gesto= _m._ face, expression
+
+=Girón= _proper name_
+
+=gloria= _f._ glory;
+ =ni en la ~= not even in heaven itself, what could be better?
+
+=glorioso, -a= glorious
+
+=gobernador, -a= governor
+
+=gobernar= _irreg._ govern, rule
+
+=gobierno= _m._ government
+
+=golpe= _m._ blow, wound, shock, thrust
+
+=gota= _f._ drop
+
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+
+=gozo= _m._ joy, rejoicing, keen pleasure
+
+=grabar= engrave
+
+=gracia= _f._ grace, wit, joke; favor;
+ =~s= thanks;
+ =~s a Dios= thank heaven;
+ =por ~= for a joke;
+ =hacer ~ a= please, amuse;
+ =tener ~= be witty, be funny
+
+=gracioso, -a= free, graceful, easy;
+ =gracioso porte= easy carriage
+
+=grada= _f._ step, stair;
+ =~s perron=
+
+=gradería= _f._ steps
+
+=grajo= _m._ jackdaw
+
+=gran= _see_ =grande=
+
+=grande= great, large
+
+=grandeza= _f._ greatness, eminence
+
+=gratitud= _f._ gratitude
+
+=grey= _f._ flock
+
+=grillos= _m. pl._ fetters, irons
+
+=grito= _m._ shout, cry
+
+=grotesco, -a= grotesque
+
+=grupo= _m._ group
+
+=guardar= guard, protect, keep, watch over;
+ =guárdeos Dios= farewell;
+ =~ silencio= remain silent
+
+=guardarropa= _f._ wardrobe, clothes-press
+
+=guardarropía= _f._ wardrobe (_theatrical_)
+
+=guardia= _f._ guard, policeman;
+ =ponerse en ~= put one's self on one's guard
+
+=guerra= _f._ war
+
+=guiar= guide, lead
+
+=gusto= _m._ pleasure;
+ =a vuestro ~= to your liking;
+ =de ~= with pleasure
+
+=Guzmán= _family name_;
+ =el de ~= = =el Conde-Duque de Olivares=
+
+
+=haber= _irreg._ have;
+ =~ de= have to, be to, must;
+ =hay, había,= _etc._ there is, there are, _etc._;
+ =~ menester= have need of;
+ =hay= (_etc._) =que= it is necessary, one must;
+ =qué ha habido= what has happened;
+ =no ha mucho= not long ago
+
+=hábil= capable, clever, cunning
+
+=habilidad= _f._ ability, cunning
+
+=habitación= _f._ room, apartment, suite of rooms
+
+=hábito= _m._ habit, custom; dress; insignia, order
+
+=hablar= speak, talk, discuss;
+ =qué hablará consigo mismo= what can he be muttering to himself;
+ =~ para si= talk to one's self
+
+=hacer= _irreg._ do, make, act, cause, have;
+ =~se= become;
+ =se hace tarde= it is getting late;
+ =hace= (_in impers. expr. of time_) ago;
+ =~ agua= leak;
+ =~ compañía= accompany;
+ =~ la corte a= do honor to, pay court to;
+ =~ cruces= cross one's self;
+ =~ gracia= please, amuse;
+ =~ presente= present, state, bring to one's attention;
+ =~ voto= vow;
+ =~ una salva= fire a salute
+
+=hacia= toward;
+ =~ aquí= in this direction
+
+=halagüeño, -a= attractive, alluring, flattering
+
+=hallar= find;
+ =~se= be (=estar=)
+
+=hambre= _f._ hunger
+
+=harto, -a= satiated
+
+=harto= enough
+
+=hasta= as far as, until, towards, even to, even;
+ =~ que= until
+
+=hazaña= _f._ deed
+
+=hecho= (_pp. irreg. of_ =hacer=)
+
+=hecho= _m._ deed, fact, action
+
+=helado, -a= (_pp. of_ =helar=) frozen, chilled
+
+=heredar= inherit
+
+=heredero= _m._ heir;
+ =príncipe ~= crown prince
+
+=herir= _irreg._ wound, strike
+
+=hermana= _f._ sister;
+ =prima ~= first cousin
+
+=hermano= _m._ brother
+
+=hermoso, -a= beautiful
+
+=heroico, -a= heroic
+
+=heroísmo= _m._ heroism
+
+=hidalgo= _m._ nobleman
+
+=hiel= _f._ bitterness, gall
+
+=hielo= _m._ ice
+
+=hierba= _f._ grass
+
+=hierro= _m._ iron, steel; sword
+
+=hijo= _m._ son, child
+
+=hipocresía= hypocrisy, dissimulation
+
+=hipócrita= _m._ hypocritical
+
+=historia= _f._ history, story, fable, tale, yarn; rot!
+
+=hoja= _f._ leaf;
+ =~s= leaves of (folding or sliding) door
+
+=hola= hello, ho
+
+=holgarse de= _irreg._ take pleasure in
+
+=hombre= _m._ man
+
+=hombro= _m._ shoulder
+
+=hondo, -a= deep, dark;
+ =honda querella= bitter complaint
+
+=honor= _m._ honor
+
+=honra= _f._ honor
+
+=honrar= honor
+
+=honroso, -a= honorable, creditable
+
+=hora= _f._ hour, appointed time;
+ =es ~ de que= it is time that;
+ =a estas ~s= now, at this moment
+
+=horca= _f._ gallows
+
+=horizonte= _m._ horizon
+
+=horrendo, -a= dreadful, hideous
+
+=horrible= horrible
+
+=horror= _m._ horror;
+ =qué ~= how horrible
+
+=hostilidad= _f._ hostility
+
+=hoy= to-day;
+ =~ mismo= this very day;
+ =de ~ en más= from now on, henceforth
+
+=huirse= _irreg._ flee, escape
+
+=humanidad= _f._ humanity
+
+=humano, -a= human
+
+=humedecer= _irreg._ moisten; grow wet, grow moist
+
+=húmedo, -a= damp, wet
+
+=humilde= humble
+
+=humillación= _f._ humiliation, abjectness
+
+=humillado, -a= (_pp. of_ =humillar=) humiliated, humbled
+
+=humillar= humble, crush, degrade
+
+=humo= _m._ smoke
+
+=humor= _m._ humor;
+ =de mal ~= ill-humoredly;
+ =estar de ~= be in good humor
+
+=hundir= plunge, crush;
+ =~se= crumble, collapse
+
+
+=idea= _f._ idea
+
+=ideal= ideal
+
+=ídem= idem, the same
+
+=ignorar= be ignorant of, be in ignorance
+
+=igual= equal, similar, fair
+
+=ijar= _m._ flank, side
+
+=iluminado, -a= (_pp. of_ =iluminar=) illuminated
+
+=iluminar= illuminate
+
+=ilusión= _f._ illusion
+
+=ilustre= illustrious, glorious
+
+=imagen= _f._ image
+
+=imaginar= imagine
+
+=imaginario, -a= imaginary
+
+=imbécil= imbecile, mad
+
+=imbécil= _m._ imbecile, ass
+
+=imitar= imitate
+
+=impaciencia= _f._ impatience
+
+=impacientarse= grow impatient
+
+=impaciente= impatient
+
+=impasible= impassible, motionless
+
+=imperial= imperial
+
+=imperio= _m._ empire, command, imperiousness;
+ =con ~= arrogantly, in commanding tone
+
+=imperioso, -a= imperious, commanding
+
+=impío, -a= impious, wicked
+
+=imponer= _irreg._ impose
+
+=importar= be of importance, matter, concern;
+ =importe que importe= matter what it may, at any rate
+
+=importuno, -a= unseasonable, annoying
+
+=imposible= impossible
+
+=impostor= _m._ impostor
+
+=improviso, -a= unexpected, unforeseen;
+ =de ~= suddenly, unexpectedly
+
+=impuro, -a= impure, unfaithful
+
+=incapaz= (_pl._ =-ces=) incapable
+
+=incauto, -a= incautious, rash
+
+=incertidumbre= _f._ uncertainty
+
+=incisivo, -a= incisive
+
+=inclinación= _f._ inclination, bow
+
+=inclinarse= bow
+
+=ínclito, -a= renowned, illustrious
+
+=incorporarse= join, mingle with
+
+=indagar= investigate, inquire
+
+=independiente= independent
+
+=indiferencia= _f._ indifference
+
+=indignado, -a= (_pp. of_ =indignar=) indignant, angry
+
+=indispuesto, -a= indisposed, unwell
+
+=inédito, -a= unpublished
+
+=Inés= _proper name_
+
+=inevitable= inevitable
+
+=infame= infamous, abominable
+
+=infamia= _f._ infamy
+
+=infante, -a= infante, infanta (legitimate child of Spanish royal blood)
+
+=infeliz= unhappy, wretched
+
+=inferir= _irreg._ infer
+
+=infernal= infernal, hellish
+
+=infierno= _m._ hell
+
+=infinito, -a= infinite;
+ _as adv._ immeasurably
+
+=influir= _irreg._ influence, exercise influence
+
+=infructuoso, -a= fruitless, vain
+
+=infundir= imbue with, inspire
+
+=ingenio= _m._ talent, cleverness, brilliancy
+
+=iniquidad= _f._ iniquity, wickedness
+
+=injusto, -a= unjust
+
+=inmediatamente= immediately, instantly
+
+=inmenso, -a= immense, unbounded, infinite
+
+=inmóvil= motionless
+
+=inocencia= _f._ innocence
+
+=inocente= innocent
+
+=inquietud= _f._ disquietude;
+ =con ~= restlessly
+
+=inquirir= _irreg._ inquire into, investigate
+
+=insistir (en)= insist (upon)
+
+=instantáneo, -a= instantaneous
+
+=instante= _m._ instant
+
+=insulso, -a= stupid, insipid
+
+=insultar= insult
+
+=insulto= _m._ insult
+
+=intacto, -a= intact, untouched
+
+=inteligencia= _f._ intelligence
+
+=intención= _f._ intention, meaning
+
+=intentar= try, intend, mean
+
+=intento= _m._ intent, purpose, design
+
+=intercalado, -a= (_pp. of_ =intercalar=) interpolated
+
+=intercalar= interpolate, insert
+
+=interceptar= intercept
+
+=interés= _m._ interest, advantage
+
+=interior= interior, inside
+
+=interior= _m._ interior
+
+=interpretar= interpret
+
+=interrumpir= interrupt
+
+=introducir= _irreg._ introduce, lead in
+
+=inundar= inundate, flood
+
+=inútil= useless;
+ =me era ~= I had no occasion for
+
+=invención= _f._ invention, fabrication
+
+=invocar= invoke
+
+=ir= _irreg._ go; be (_with pres. part._);
+ =~se= go away;
+ =vase= exit;
+ =vamos= come, why;
+ =vaya= come, well, indeed;
+ =vaya un= what a;
+ =~ a= (_infin._) start to;
+ =vamos a otra cosa= let's talk of something else;
+ =van ya muchos años que= it is many years now since;
+ =todo va bien= everything is all right;
+ =muy bien os va con= you are making fine progress with;
+ =id con Dios= God be with you, good-by;
+ =va de tahur a tahur= it is gambler against gambler;
+ =va que se le lleva el aire= he goes as if he were walking on air;
+ =se nos fué de entre las manos= slipped from our grasp
+
+=ironía= _f._ irony
+
+=irónicamente= ironically
+
+=irónico, -a= ironical
+
+=irresistible= irresistible
+
+=irritar= irritate;
+ =~se= be stirred, be provoked, be aroused
+
+=isla= _f._ island
+
+=ítem= also, moreover;
+ =con el ~= with the additional circumstance
+
+=izquierdo, -a= left (_opp. of_ derecho)
+
+
+=ja= ha
+
+=jamás= never, ever
+
+=jardín= _m._ garden
+
+=jaspeado, -a= (_pp. of_ =jaspear=) spotted, mottled
+
+=Jesucristo= Jesus Christ; good God!
+
+=Jesús= Jesus; Lord!
+
+=jornada= _f._ journey, expedition; occasion;
+ =nuestra es la ~= the day is ours;
+ =al fin de la ~= the day's work done
+
+=joven= young
+
+=jovial= jovial
+
+=joya= _f._ jewel
+
+=joyel= _m._ jewel
+
+=Juan= John
+
+=júbilo= _m._ jubilation, joy
+
+=Judás= Judas (Iscariot)
+
+=jueves= _m._ Thursday;
+ =~ santo= Maundy Thursday
+
+=jugar= _irreg._ play
+
+=juglar= _m._ buffoon
+
+=juguetón, -a= playful, sportive
+
+=juicio= _m._ judgment, opinion; good sense, prudence;
+ =perder el ~= lose one's head, go mad
+
+=junto, -a= near, close, beside;
+ =~s= together, side by side;
+ =~ a= beside, near, at the side of
+
+=jurar= swear
+
+=juro= _m._ right of perpetual property;
+ =~ de heredad= hereditary and perpetual property
+
+=justicia= _f._ justice
+
+=justo, -a= just, right, proper
+
+=juzgar= judge, consider
+
+
+=la= the; her, it; to her, to it
+
+=labio= _m._ lip
+
+=labor= _f._ labor, undertaking;
+ =~ de mujer= embroidery, needlework
+
+=labrador= _m._ laborer, workman
+
+=lacio, -a= faded, flaccid, languid
+
+=lado= _m._ side
+
+=La Grana= _proper name_
+
+=lágrima= _f._ tear
+
+=lance= _m._ incident, situation, affair, quarrel
+
+=lanzar= hurl;
+ =~se= rush, dart
+
+=lanzón= _m. (augm. of_ =lanza=) great lance
+
+=largo, -a= long;
+ =a paso ~= quickly, hurriedly
+
+=largueza= _f._ largess, generosity
+
+=lástima= _f._ pity;
+ =~ que= what a pity that;
+ =es ~= it is a pity
+
+=lastimarse= grieve, complain
+
+=lateral= lateral
+
+=latido= _m._ beat, beating (of heart)
+
+=laurel= _m._ laurel
+
+=lazo= _m._ bond
+
+=le= him, it; to him, to her, to it
+
+=leal= loyal, true
+
+=lealtad= _f._ loyalty
+
+=lector= _m._ reader
+
+=lectura= _f._ reading
+
+=leer= read
+
+=lejano, -a= distant
+
+=lengua= _f._ tongue
+
+=lentamente= slowly
+
+=lentitud= _f._ slowness, deliberation
+
+=León= _m._ city in northwestern part of Spain
+
+=letra= _f._ letter
+
+=letrilla= _f._ rondelet; usually humorous or satirical. It is divided into
+ strophes, at the end of each of which the general thought of the composition
+ is briefly repeated after the manner of a refrain
+
+=levantado, -a= (_pp. of_ =levantar=) raised
+
+=levantar= raise;
+ =~se= rise
+
+=leve= slight
+
+=ley= _f._ law;
+ =de ~= by law, by right;
+ =sin dios y sin ~= godless and lawless
+
+=librar= free
+
+=libre= free, unoccupied
+
+=libro= _m._ book
+
+=lid= _f._ contest, fight
+
+=lidiar= fight
+
+=ligero, -a= light, hasty, thoughtless
+
+=limpio, -a= clean, neat;
+ =sacar en ~= find out definitely, come to a conclusion
+
+=línea= _f._ line
+
+=linterna= _f._ lantern
+
+=Lisboa= _f._ Lisbon
+
+=liso, -a= smooth
+
+=lisonja= _f._ flattery, compliment
+
+=lisonjero, -a= flattering, complimentary, agreeable
+
+=litera= _f._ litter, stretcher
+
+=liviano, -a= light, fickle, frivolous
+
+=lo= it, him; the
+
+=loco, -a= mad, crazy
+
+=lograr= obtain, succeed in, attain
+
+=Lucifer= Lucifer
+
+=lucha= _f._ struggle
+
+=luchar= struggle, fight, contend
+
+=luego= soon, then, presently, at once;
+ =~ que= as soon as, when;
+ =hasta ~= good-by (implies only a short separation)
+
+=lúgubre= sad, mournful, gloomy
+
+=luna= _f._ moon
+
+=luto= _m._ mourning
+
+=luz= _f._ light;
+ =luces= knowledge, enlightenment
+
+
+=llamar= call, summon;
+ =~se= be called, named
+
+=llanamente= frankly
+
+=llano, -a= clear, evident
+
+=llanto= _m._ weeping, tears
+
+=llave= _f._ key
+
+=llegar= arrive, approach, reach;
+ =~se= approach;
+ =~ a= (_infin._) come to, succeed in
+
+=lleno, -a= full
+
+=llevar= carry, bear, wear;
+ =~se= take, carry off;
+ =~ un golpe= receive a blow;
+ =lleve tu palabra el diablo= to the devil with what you've got to say
+
+=llorar= weep, lament
+
+
+=madre= _f._ mother
+
+=Madrid= _m._ Madrid
+
+=maestro= _m._ teacher, tutor
+
+=magín= _m._ fancy, imagination
+
+=majestad= _f._ majesty
+
+=mal= badly, ill;
+ =~ seguro, -a= unsafe, insecure
+
+=mal= _m._ evil, harm, ill;
+ =por mi ~= to my injury, to my misfortune, to my sorrow
+
+=maldad= _f._ wickedness
+
+=maldecir= _irreg._ curse
+
+=maldito, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =maldecir=) cursed, accursed
+
+=maliciosamente= maliciously, mischievously
+
+=malicioso, -a= malicious, mischievous, sly
+
+=mal(o), -a= bad, poor, ill, wicked
+
+=malvado, -a= wicked, unscrupulous
+
+=malla= _f._ coat of mail
+
+=mancebía= _f._ brothel
+
+=mandar= command, order
+
+=mandato= _m._ order, command
+
+=mandíbula= _f._ jaw;
+ =reírse a ~s batientes= laugh loud and long
+
+=mando= _m._ command, bidding
+
+=manera= _f._ manner
+
+=manifestar= _irreg._ manifest
+
+=maniobra= _f._ maneuver
+
+=mano= _f._ hand
+
+=mansión= _f._ mansion
+
+=manso, -a= tame, meek, placid
+
+=mantener= _irreg._ maintain, keep;
+ =~se= continue
+
+=manto= _m._ mantle, cloak
+
+=Mantua= _f._ Mantua
+
+=maña= _f._ skill, cunning
+
+=mañana= to-morrow
+
+=mañana= _f._ morning;
+ =~ será otro día= to-morrow things will be different
+
+=maquinación= _f._ machination
+
+=maquinalmente= mechanically
+
+=mar= _m._ sea;
+ _pl._ seas, waters
+
+=marcado, -a= (_pp. of_ =marcar=) marked
+
+=marcha= _f._ march, departure;
+ =en ~= march
+
+=marchar= march;
+ =~se= go away
+
+=Margarita= _proper name_
+
+=marido= _m._ husband
+
+=marqués= _m._ marquis
+
+=Marte= Mars, god of war
+
+=mártir= _m. and f._ martyr
+
+=martirio= _m._ martyrdom
+
+=mas= but
+
+=más= more, most, further; of higher rank;
+ =~ bien= rather;
+ =a ~= further, besides;
+ =de hoy en ~= from now on, henceforth;
+ =mientras ~... ~= the more... the more;
+ =por ~ que= however much
+
+=matador= _m. and adj._ killer, murderer; murderously inclined
+
+=matar= kill; put out, extinguish
+
+=materno, -a= maternal
+
+=matrimonio= _m._ matrimony, marriage
+
+=mayor= (_comp. of_ =grande=) greater, greatest
+
+=maza= _f._ object fastened to a person's clothing
+ in order to make sport of him; something noisy tied to dog's tail
+
+=me= me, to me
+
+=Medina= _proper name_
+
+=medio, -a= half, middle
+
+=medio= _m._ middle, means, resort;
+ =en ~ de= in the middle of
+
+=meditar= meditate
+
+=mejilla= _f._ cheek
+
+=mejor= (_comp. of_ bueno) better, best; all the better; fine!
+ =~ que ~= better than ever! great!
+
+=mejoreo= _m._ advantage; constant use of the word =mejor=
+
+=mejoría= _f._ betterment, advantage; improvement, superiority
+
+=memoria= _f._ memory
+
+=memorial= _m._ petition
+
+=Mendaña= _proper name_
+
+=mendigar= beg
+
+=menester= necessary
+
+=mengua= _f._ diminution, wane; disgrace, shame
+
+=menina= _f._ little girl-in-waiting
+
+=menor= (_comp. of_ =pequeño=) smaller, less, least
+
+=menos= (_comp. of_ =poco=) less, least; of lower rank;
+ =por ~= at least;
+ =al ~= at least;
+ =lo ~= at least;
+ =no es para ~ la cosa= the situation well warrants it
+
+=menos= except
+
+=mental= mental
+
+=mente= _f._ mind, understanding, intelligence
+
+=mentir= _irreg._ lie, misrepresent, attribute falsely
+
+=mentira= _f._ lie, untruth; lies
+
+=meollo= _m._ brain, marrow; understanding;
+ =tener seco el ~= have lost one's wits, have gone crazy
+
+=merced= _f._ favor, grace
+
+=merecer= _irreg._ deserve; receive a favor at the hands of
+
+=merienda= _f._ lunch; food;
+ =siempre las memorias son ~ del olvido= memories were ever food for
+forgetfulness
+
+=mes= _m._ month
+
+=mesa= _f._ table, desk
+
+=meseta= _f._ landing (of stairs)
+
+=metralla= _f._ grape-shot
+
+=mezquino, -a= wretched
+
+=mi= my
+
+=mí= me
+
+=miedo= _m._ fear;
+ =tener ~= be afraid
+
+=mientras= while; during;
+ =~ que= while;
+ =~ más (menos)... más (menos)= the more (less)... the more (less)
+
+=mil= thousand, a thousand
+
+=militar= military, martial
+
+=millón= _m._ million, a million
+
+=mina= _f._ mine
+
+=ministro= _m._ minister;
+ =~ de Estado= Secretary of State
+
+=minuto= _m._ minute
+
+=mío, -a= my;
+ =el mío, la mía,= mine
+
+=mirada= _f._ glance, gaze, look
+
+=mirar= look at, regard, gaze upon, see;
+ =mira que= consider that, remember that
+
+=misa= _f._ mass
+
+=misericordia= _f._ mercy
+
+=mísero, -a= miserable, wretched;
+ =~ de= alas for
+
+=mismísimo, -a= selfsame;
+ =el ~ diablo= the very devil himself
+
+=mismo, -a= self, same, very
+
+=misterio= _m._ mystery, mysteriousness, secrecy
+
+=mitad= _f._ half; middle, midst
+
+=modelo= _m._ model
+
+=modo= _m._ way, manner;
+ =de cualquier ~= in any way possible;
+ =en cierto ~= in a certain sense;
+ =de ~ que= so that, in such a way that;
+ =con discretos ~s= cleverly
+
+=mofa= _f._ mockery, ridicule
+
+=momento= _m._ moment, instant;
+ =al ~= instantly, at once
+
+=monarca= _m._ monarch
+
+=monta= _f._ importance, moment
+
+=monte= _m._ mountain
+
+=montón= _m._ heap;
+ =a ~es= in great abundance
+
+=monumento= _m._ monument
+
+=morada= _f._ abode, dwelling
+
+=morar= live, dwell
+
+=mordaza= _f._ gag
+
+=moribundo, -a= moribund, at point of death
+
+=morir= _irreg._ die;
+ =~se= die
+
+=mortal= mortal; near death
+
+=mostrar= _irreg._ show
+
+=movimiento= _m._ movement, motion
+
+=mucho, -a= much;
+ _pl._ many
+
+=mucho= much, very, greatly
+
+=mudar= change;
+ =~ de= change one's
+
+=mudo, -a= mute, silent
+
+=mueble= _m._ piece of furniture
+
+=muerte= _f._ death;
+ =a ~ o a vida= life or death! a forlorn hope
+
+=muerto, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =morir= _or_ =matar=) dead, killed; exhausted
+
+=muestra= _f._ sample; sign, indication
+
+=mujer= _f._ woman
+
+=mundo= _m._ world
+
+=muralla= _f._ wall (of town)
+
+=musa= _f._ muse, inspiration
+
+=mustio, -a= sad; languid
+
+=muy= very, very much
+
+
+=nacer= _irreg._ be born
+
+=nación= _f._ nation
+
+=nada= nothing, anything; enough
+
+=nadie= no one, nobody, anybody, somebody
+
+=nariz= _f._ nose
+
+=narizado, -a= big-nosed
+
+=narración= _f._ narration, narrative, account
+
+=Nasón= Publius Ovidius Naso, Latin poet, born 48 B.C., died 18 A.D.
+
+=natural= natural
+
+=naturalidad= _f._ naturalness
+
+=navío= _m._ ship
+
+=necesario, -a= necessary
+
+=necesitar= need
+
+=necio, -a= foolish, ignorant, stupid
+
+=necio= _m._ fool
+
+=nefando, -a= abominable
+
+=negar= _irreg._ deny
+
+=negocio= _m._ business, affair, occupation
+
+=negro, -a= black, dark, gloomy, wretched;
+ =negro afán= dire anxiety
+
+=nema= _f._ seal
+
+=nequáquam= by no means, not a bit of it
+
+=ni= nor, neither, not even;
+ =~ aun= not even
+
+=nicho= _m._ niche
+
+=nido= _m._ nest; berth
+
+=nieta= _f._ granddaughter
+
+=nieto= _m._ grandson
+
+=niña= _f._ child, girl
+
+=niño= _m._ child, boy
+
+=nivel= _m._ level
+
+=no= no, not
+
+=noble= noble, illustrious
+
+=noche= _f._ night;
+ =de ~= at night;
+ =esta ~= to-night;
+ =buenas ~s= good night;
+ =~ de truenos= stormy night, black night
+
+=nombrar= name, appoint
+
+=nombre= _m._ name, fame, reputation;
+ =en su ~= for him;
+ =juro a mi ~= upon my honor
+
+=nos= us, to us
+
+=nosotros, -as= we, us
+
+=notar= note
+
+=noto= _m._ south wind
+
+=notorio, -a= notorious;
+ =público y ~= _see_ =público=
+
+=nube= _f._ cloud;
+ =~s de arrebol= brilliant sky
+
+=nuestro, -a= our, ours;
+ =el nuestro, la nuestra,= our, ours
+
+=nuevo, -a= new, fresh;
+ =qué hay de ~= what is the news;
+ =de ~= again, anew
+
+=numen= _m._ divinity, muse; inspiration
+
+=nunca= never
+
+=nuncio= _m._ messenger, harbinger
+
+=nupcial= nuptial
+
+
+=o= or;
+ =~... ~= either... or
+
+=obedecer= _irreg._ obey
+
+=obediencia= _f._ obedience
+
+=obediente= obedient
+
+=obligación= _f._ obligation
+
+=obligar= oblige, force
+
+=obra= _f._ act;
+ _pl._ behavior, actions
+
+=obrar= operate, act
+
+=observación= _f._ observation, remark
+
+=observar= observe
+
+=obtener= _irreg._ obtain
+
+=Ocaña= _f._ _see note_
+
+=ocasión= _f._ occasion;
+ =a ~ dichosa= at just the right moment
+
+=ocioso, -a= idle
+
+=ocultar= hide
+
+=oculto, -a= hidden
+
+=ocupar= occupy;
+ =~se de= occupy one's self in, concern one's self about
+
+=ocurrencia= _f._ occurrence; witty sally, idea
+
+=ocurrir= occur
+
+=ocho= eight
+
+=odiar= hate
+
+=odio= _m._ hatred;
+ _pl._ hatred
+
+=oficio= _m._ business, office, occupation
+
+=ofrecer= _irreg._ offer, volunteer
+
+=oh= oh
+
+=oído, -a= (_pp. of_ =oír=) heard
+
+=oído= _m._ hearing, ear
+
+=oír= _irreg._ hear, listen
+
+=ojo= _m._ eye
+
+=ola= _f._ wave
+
+=Olivares= _proper name_
+
+=olvidado, -a= (_pp. of_ =olvidar=) forgotten; forgetful
+
+=olvidar= forget;
+ =~se de= forget
+
+=olvido= _m._ forgetfulness; oblivion
+
+=opinión= _f._ opinion
+
+=oponer(se)= _irreg._ oppose
+
+=opuesto, -a= (_pp. of_ =oponer=) opposite
+
+=oración= _f._ speech; sentence; prayer
+
+=orar= pray
+
+=órden= _f._ order, command, direction
+
+=órgano= _m._ organ
+
+=orgullo= _m._ pride
+
+=origen= _m._ origin
+
+=orilla= _f._ shore;
+ =morir ahogado en la ~= fail with success within one's grasp
+
+=Ormuz= _m._ Ormuz, _cf. note_
+
+=oro= _m._ gold
+
+=os= you, to you
+
+=osado, -a= (_pp. of_ =osar=) daring, presumptuous
+
+=osar= dare
+
+=oscuridad= _f._ obscurity, darkness
+
+=oscuro, -a= obscure, dark;
+ =a oscuras= in the dark
+
+=Osorio= _proper name_
+
+=ostentoso, -a= ostentatious
+
+=Osuna= Osuna, _cf. Hist. Introd._
+
+=otro, -a= other, another
+
+=Ovidio= _cf._ Nasón
+
+
+=Pablo= _proper name_
+
+=pábulo= _m._ food
+
+=padecer= _irreg._ suffer
+
+=padecimiento= _m._ suffering
+
+=padre= _m._ father
+
+=padrón= _m._ pattern, model; column, post with inscription;
+ =~ de infamia= mark of infamy
+
+=paga= _f._ pay, reward
+
+=pagar= pay, pay for
+
+=pago= _m._ pay, payment; fee
+
+=paje= _m._ page
+
+=pajuela= _m._ sulphur match; piece of wicking dipped in sulphur
+
+=palabra= _f._ word
+
+=palaciego, -a= of the palace
+
+=palacio= _m._ palace
+
+=Palermo= _m._ Palermo, _see note_
+
+=pálido, -a= pallid, pale
+
+=palma= _f._ palm
+
+=palpar= feel
+
+=pan= _m._ bread
+
+=papel= _m._ paper
+
+=papelito= _m._ (_dimin. of_ =papel=) slip of paper
+
+=par= _m._ pair, equal, peer;
+ =sin ~= unequaled, matchless;
+ =a ~= together
+
+=para= for, to, in order to;
+ =estar ~= be about to;
+ =~ que= in order to, in order that
+
+=parabién= _m._ congratulations
+
+=parar= stop, put a stop to;
+ =~se= stop, pause
+
+=pardiez= by Jove
+
+=parecer= _irreg._ seem;
+ =me parece= I think;
+ =al ~= apparently;
+ =~se a= resemble
+
+=pared= _f._ wall
+
+=pareja= _f._ pair, couple
+
+=parentela= _f._ kindred, relations
+
+=párpado= _m._ eyelid
+
+=parte= _f._ part, place, spot;
+ =en cualquier ~= anywhere
+
+=particular= particular, special; personal, private
+
+=partida= _f._ departure;
+ =¡de ~!= on our way!
+
+=partir= part, divide; depart, start; share
+
+=pasar= pass, happen; pierce; pass out;
+ =qué pasa por mí= what is happening to me, what is wrong with me
+
+=pasearse= walk about
+
+=pasión= _f._ passion
+
+=paso= _m._ step, passage, way;
+ =al ~= immediately;
+ =a ~ largo= hurriedly, quickly;
+ =abrir ~= make way for;
+ =cerrar el ~= prevent, interfere;
+ =dar un ~= take a step, move;
+ =dar ~= make way;
+ =dejar ~= let pass, make way for
+
+=patria= _f._ country, fatherland
+
+=pausa= _f._ pause
+
+=paz= _f._ peace;
+ =venir de ~= a friend (_answer to challenge of sentry_)
+
+=pecar= sin, err
+
+=pecho= _m._ breast, chest; heart
+
+=pedazo= _m._ piece, fragment
+
+=pedir= _irreg._ ask, ask for, demand
+
+=pedrisco= _m._ hailstorm; shower of stones
+
+=pegado, -a= (_pp. of_ =pegar=) fastened, joined
+
+=peje= _m._ fish;
+ =~ espada= swordfish
+
+=peligro= _m._ danger
+
+=peligroso, -a= dangerous
+
+=pena= _f._ pain, trouble, affliction, penalty
+
+=pendiente= pending, hanging in air; unfinished
+
+=pensamiento= _m._ mind, thought
+
+=pensar= _irreg._ think, intend
+
+=pensativo, -a= pensive
+
+=pensión= _f._ pension, toil
+
+=peor= (_comp. of_ =malo=) worse, worst
+
+=pequeño, -a= small
+
+=percance= _m._ mischance, misfortune
+
+=percibir= perceive, feel; collect
+
+=perder= _irreg._ lose, ruin;
+ =~se= be ruined, be lost
+
+=perdido, -a= (_pp. of_ =perder=) lost, undone
+
+=perdón= _m._ pardon
+
+=perdonar= pardon
+
+=peregrino, -a= strange
+
+=perfección= _f._ perfection
+
+=perfectamente= perfectly; all right, well and good
+
+=permanecer= _irreg._ remain
+
+=permitido, -a= (_pp. of_ =permitir=) permitted
+
+=permitir= permit
+
+=Pernambuco= _cf. note_
+
+=pero= but
+
+=perpetuo, -a= perpetual
+
+=perro= _m._ dog
+
+=perseguir= _irreg._ pursue, beset, persecute
+
+=persona= _f._ person
+
+=personaje= _m._ personage; character (in theater)
+
+=persuasión= _f._ persuasion
+
+=pesado, -a= heavy, stupid, serious
+
+=pesar= weigh, cause regret, trouble
+
+=pesar= _m._ regret, sorrow;
+ =a ~ de= in spite of;
+ =a su ~= in spite of herself
+
+=peso= _m._ weight
+
+=pesquisa= _f._ search, inquiry
+
+=petición= _f._ petition, appeal
+
+=picante= piquant, keen, stinging, hot
+
+=pie= _m._ foot;
+ =al ~ de= at the foot of, beside;
+ =al ~ de la letra= literally
+
+=piedad= _f._ mercy;
+ =por ~= for pity's sake
+
+=piloto= _m._ pilot
+
+=pinta= _f._ edge line on card denoting suit; outward appearance
+
+=pintado, -a= (_pp. of_ =pintar=) painted;
+ =os está que ni ~= nothing could be more becoming to you
+
+=pintar= color, paint
+
+=pío, -a= pious, devout
+
+=piropo= _m._ compliment
+
+=pista= _f._ trail, track, clue
+
+=pistola= _f._ pistol
+
+=placer= _irreg._ please, content;
+ =plega a Dios= God grant
+
+=placer= _m._ pleasure;
+ =ser de ~= be agreeable, be enjoyable
+
+=plan= _m._ plan
+
+=plantar= plant;
+ =~se el sombrero= put on one's hat
+
+=plaza= _f._ city square
+
+=plazo= _m._ space of time, term
+
+=plazuela= _f._ (_dimin. of_ =plaza=) little square
+
+=plegaria= _f._ prayer, petition
+
+=pleito= _m._ lawsuit;
+ =estar en ~= be in the courts, be in doubt
+
+=pliego= _m._ sheet of paper, folded paper
+
+=pliegue= _m._ fold
+
+=plomo= _m._ lead
+
+=plugo= _pret. of_ =placer=
+
+=pluma= _f._ feather, quill, pen
+
+=pobre= poor, wretched
+
+=poco, -a= little, _pl._ few, a few, some;
+ =un poco= a little;
+ =poco a poco= little by little
+
+=poder= _irreg._ can, be able, be able to do, be powerful;
+ =~lo todo= be all-powerful;
+ =no puedo más= I have reached the end of my resources;
+ =puede que= it is possible that;
+ =~se= be possible
+
+=poder= _m._ power
+
+=poderoso, -a= powerful
+
+=podrido, -a= (_pp. of_ =podrir=) rotten, decayed
+
+=podrir= _irreg._ decay
+
+=poeta= _m._ poet
+
+=Polimnia= the muse of pantomime
+
+=polvo= _m._ dust
+
+=pólvora= _f._ powder;
+ =gastar la ~ en salvas= waste one's strength
+
+=pompa= _f._ pomp
+
+=poner= _irreg._ place, put, put on;
+ =~se= become;
+ =~ en claro= clear up, explain;
+ =~ en salvo= save;
+ =~ en escena= stage;
+ =me ha puesto descolorido el semblante= has made me turn pale;
+ =~ preso= put under arrest
+
+=por= by, for, in order to, from, for the sake of, through, over, on, in,
+about, around;
+ =~ debajo= beneath;
+ =~ decirlo así= so to speak;
+ =~ eso= that is why;
+ =~ fin= finally;
+ =poner ~ obra= execute;
+ =~ este lado= on this side;
+ =~ el contrario= on the contrary;
+ =~ cierto= certainly, be sure;
+ =~ qué= why
+
+=porque= because, for, in order that
+
+=portal= _m._ portal, entrance, vestibule
+
+=porte= _m._ nobility; size, quality, nature; bearing
+
+=Portugal= _m._ Portugal
+
+=portugués, -a= Portuguese
+
+=porvenir= _m._ future
+
+=pos=:
+ =en ~= afterward, behind;
+ =en ~ de= after
+
+=posada= _f._ inn, lodging
+
+=postrer= _see_ =postrero=
+
+=postrero, -a= last, final
+
+=póstumo, -a= posthumous
+
+=practicable= practicable, usable
+
+=precio= _m._ price
+
+=precipicio= _m._ precipice; brink
+
+=precipitación= _f._ precipitation
+
+=precipitarse= rush
+
+=preciso, -a= necessary, essential
+
+=preeminencia= _f._ preëminence
+
+=preferencia= _f._ preference
+
+=preferir= _irreg._ prefer
+
+=pregunta= _f._ question
+
+=preguntar= ask (question)
+
+=premio= _m._ reward, prize
+
+=prenda= _f._ pledge, noble characteristic
+
+=prender= _irreg._ arrest; fasten
+
+=preñado, -a= (_pp. of_ =preñar=) pregnant, charged with
+
+=preocupación= _f._ preoccupation
+
+=preocupado, -a= (_pp. of_ =preocupar=) preoccupied
+
+=preparado, -a= (_pp. of_ =preparar=) prepared
+
+=preparar= prepare
+
+=prescribir= _irreg._ prescribe
+
+=presencia= _f._ presence
+
+=presenciar= witness, be present at
+
+=presentar= present, bring forward
+
+=presente= present;
+ =hacerse ~= make one's presence felt;
+ =tener ~= bear in mind
+
+=presente= _m._ present, gift
+
+=preso, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ prender) imprisoned, prisoner, in custody
+
+=prestar= lend, furnish
+
+=presunción= _f._ assumption
+
+=pretender= pretend, claim, solicit
+
+=prevención= _f._ warning, prejudice
+
+=prevenido, -a= (_pp of._ =prevenir=) prepared, arranged
+
+=prevenir= _irreg._ prepare, provide; warn, notify
+
+=prima= _f._ cousin;
+ =~ hermana= first cousin
+
+=primer= _see_ =primero=
+
+=primero, -a= first, best
+
+=primero= first, before
+
+=primo= _m._ cousin
+
+=principal= principal, of high rank, of high importance
+
+=príncipe= _m._ prince
+
+=principio= _m._ beginning
+
+=prisión= _f._ prison, arrest
+
+=privado= favorite
+
+=privanza= _f._ favor at court; administration
+ (of arbitrarily appointed official)
+
+=privar= enjoy privileges of favorite
+
+=pro=:
+ =en ~ de= in behalf of
+
+=probar= _irreg._ prove
+
+=proceder= proceed
+
+=proceder= _m._ procedure, conduct
+
+=procesión= _f._ procession
+
+=producir= _irreg._ produce, cause
+
+=profundo, -a= profound, deep
+
+=prohibición= _f._ prohibition, interdict
+
+=prole= _f._ offspring; race, children
+
+=prolijo, -a= prolix, long-winded
+
+=promesa= _f._ promise
+
+=prometer= promise
+
+=prontitud= _f._ promptness
+
+=pronto, -a= ready, swift, prompt;
+ =al pronto= at first
+
+=pronto= soon, quickly, promptly;
+ =~ y clarito= straight out, frankly
+
+=pronunciar= pronounce
+
+=propicio, -a= propitious
+
+=propio, -a= own, same, self; natural; particular; becoming, proper;
+ =amor propio= self-respect, conceit
+
+=proseguir= _irreg._ pursue, continue
+
+=proteger= protect
+
+=proveer= _irreg._ provide
+
+=provincia= _f._ province, dependency
+
+=provocar= provoke, stir, arouse
+
+=próximo, -a= nearest, next
+
+=prudencia= _f._ prudence, moderation
+
+=prudente= prudent
+
+=prueba= _f._ proof
+
+=público, -a= public;
+ =~ y notorio= generally known
+
+=pueblo= _m._ people, populace
+
+=puerta= _f._ door, gate
+
+=puerto= _m._ port, haven;
+ =salir a ~ seguro= reach a safe port, come out all right
+
+=pues= since, because, then, as; well, why;
+ =~ que= since
+
+=puesto, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =poner=) placed;
+ =~ en alto= raised, raised on high;
+ =ya ~ la tiene= he is wearing it already
+
+=puesto= _m._ place
+
+=pulla= _f._ witty saying, jest; dig
+
+=punta= _f._ point
+
+=punto= _m._ point, moment, matter, object;
+ =a ~= on the spot;
+ =al ~= immediately
+
+=puntual= punctual, prompt
+
+=puñal= _m._ dagger
+
+=puñalada= _f._ dagger-blow
+
+=puño= _m._ fist, hand;
+ =de ~ propio= in his own handwriting
+
+=puro, -a= pure, mere, sheer; chaste
+
+
+=que= who, which, that;
+ =el ~= he who, who, which;
+ =la ~= she who, who, which;
+ =lo ~= that which, what
+
+=que= for, because, that, since; as, than
+
+=¿qué?= which, what;
+ =por ~= why;
+ =~ de= what
+
+=¡qué!= what, why, what a;
+ =~ tan= what a, what
+
+=quebranto= _m._ breaking, grief; damage
+
+=quedar= remain, stay, be left; be;
+ =~se= remain, be
+
+=quedo, -a= quiet, still, gentle
+
+=quedo= slowly
+
+=quemar= burn
+
+=quemarropa=:
+ =a ~= point-blank
+
+=querella= _f._ complaint
+
+=querer= _irreg._ wish, want, be willing, like, try;
+ =~ a= love;
+ =~ decir= mean
+
+=querido, -a= (_pp. of_ =querer=) beloved, loved
+
+=Quevedo= _proper name_
+
+=quiebra= _f._ crack, fissure, fracture
+
+=quien= who, whom; the one who, he who _etc._;
+ =por ~ soy= on my honor
+
+=quién= who?
+ =~ otro pudiera= would it were another;
+ =~ para ~= man to man, on equal footing
+
+=quieto, -a= quiet, still
+
+=quimera= _f._ an impossibility which suggests
+ itself to the mind as possible, chimera, futile idea, dream
+
+=quince= fifteen
+
+=quitar= take away, take off, ward off;
+ =ya no quitáis ni ponéis= you can neither ruin me nor make me now
+
+=quizás= perhaps
+
+
+=rabia= _f._ rage, anger
+
+=rabiar= rage, suffer great pain
+
+=radiante= radiant, brilliant
+
+=raíz= _f._ root
+
+=rama= _f._ branch;
+ =andar por las ~s= beat about the bush
+
+=ramal= _m._ branch, division
+
+=rápidamente= rapidly, quickly
+
+=rapidez= _f._ rapidity
+
+=raquítico, -a= rickety, feeble
+
+=raro, -a= rare, strange;
+ =¡cosa más rara!= how strange!
+
+=rasgar= tear up
+
+=rastrojo= _m._ stubble
+
+=rato= _m._ while, short space of time
+
+=ratón= _m._ mouse
+
+=rayo= _m._ ray; thunderbolt
+
+=raza= _f._ race, family
+
+=razón= _f._ reason, intellect, argument,
+ explanation; right, justice; way, method;
+ =es ~= it is right
+
+=real= real; royal
+
+=rebozado,-a= _(pp. of_ =rebozar=) muffled; disguised
+
+=rebozar= muffle; disguise
+
+=recado= _m._ message, errand, outfit;
+ =~ de escribir= writing materials
+
+=recalcar= emphasize
+
+=recaudo= _m._:
+ =a buen ~= well guarded, in safe keeping
+
+=recelo= _m._ misgiving, fear, suspicion
+
+=recibir= receive, admit
+
+=recio,-a= strong, stout; severe, hard
+
+=recitar= recite
+
+=recobrar= recover
+
+=recoger= pick up, gather
+
+=recompensa= _f._ recompense, reward
+
+=reconcentrar= concentrate
+
+=reconciliar= reconcile
+
+=recordar= _irreg._ remember, recall
+
+=recuerdo= _m._ memory, remembrance
+
+=rechazar= repel, repulse, reject
+
+=redención= _f._ redemption
+
+=reflejo= _m._ reflection
+
+=reflexión= _f._ reflection
+
+=regazo= _m._ lap; care
+
+=regio,-a= regal, kingly
+
+=registrar= search
+
+=registro= _m._ search; register, organ stop
+
+=regla= _f._ rule
+
+=regreso= _m._ return
+
+=rehacio,-a= stubborn, reluctant, obstinate
+
+=reina= _f._ queen
+
+=reinar= reign
+
+=reino= _m._ kingdom
+
+=reír= _irreg._ laugh;
+ =~se= laugh
+
+=reloj= _m._ watch, clock;
+ =~ de sol= sun-dial
+
+=remedio= _m._ remedy, help
+
+=remojado,-a= (_pp. of_ =remojar=) steeped, soaked
+
+=remordimiento= _m._ remorse, regret
+
+=rencor= _m._ rancor
+
+=rendir= _irreg._ render, surrender;
+ =~ vasallaje= do homage
+
+=renglón= _m._ line
+
+=reparar en= notice
+
+=repasar= review, peruse
+
+=repentinamente= suddenly
+
+=repetir= _irreg._ repeat
+
+=reposar= repose, rest
+
+=representación= _f._ representation, performance
+
+=representar= represent, perform, act (of drama)
+
+=reprimir= repress, check
+
+=reprochar= reproach
+
+=repugnancia= _f._ repugnance, disgust
+
+=repugnar= inspire with repugnance, inspire with loathing
+
+=rescatar= rescue
+
+=resignación= _f._ resignation
+
+=resolver= _irreg._ resolve, determine, decide
+
+=resonar= _irreg._ resound, sound
+
+=respetar= respect, revere, honor
+
+=respeto= _m._ respect
+
+=respirar= breathe
+
+=responder= answer; =~ de= answer for, be responsible for, acknowledge
+
+=restar= subtract, remain;
+ =~ con el dedo= subtract on one's fingers
+
+=resuelto, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =resolver=) determined, ready;
+ =~ a todo= ready for anything, stopping at nothing
+
+=retablo= _m._ series of figures that represent some historical
+ occurrence, scene, picture
+
+=retintín= _m._ tinkle, jingle
+
+=retirada= _f._ retreat
+
+=retirar(se)= retire, withdraw
+
+=retiro= _m._ retirement, seclusion
+
+=retroceder= retreat, give ground
+
+=reventar= _irreg._ burst
+
+=reverencia= _f._ reverence, courtly bow
+
+=reverenciar= reverence, revere
+
+=revuelto,-a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =revolver=) confused
+
+=rey= _m._ king
+
+=reyezuelo= (_dim. of_ =rey=) petty king
+
+=rezar= pray
+
+=rico, -a= rich
+
+=ridículo, -a= ridiculous, absurd
+
+=riesgo= _m._ risk, peril
+
+=rigor= _m._ severity
+
+=Ripalda= _proper name_
+
+=risa= _f._ laugh, laughter
+
+=risotada= _f._ loud laugh, burst of laughter
+
+=risueño, -a= smiling, pleasing
+
+=rival= _m._ rival
+
+=robusto, -a= robust, strong, stout
+
+=roca= _f._ rock, stone
+
+=rodeado, -a= (_pp. of_ =rodear=) surrounded
+
+=rodear= surround
+
+=rodilla= _f._ knee;
+ =~ en tierra= kneeling on one knee
+
+=rodrigón= _m._ elderly servant who accompanies ladies
+
+=rogar= _irreg._ pray, beseech
+
+=rojo, -a= red
+
+=romance= _m._ ballad
+
+=romper= break
+
+=rompimiento= _m._ glimpse
+
+=ronco, -a= hoarse
+
+=ronda= _f._ night patrol of police
+
+=rondar= patrol, walk about streets at night; prowl
+
+=ropa= _f._ wearing apparel, clothes
+
+=Rosellón= _m._ Roussillon, _cf. note_
+
+=rostro= _m._ face
+
+=roto, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =romper=) broken;
+ =hostilidades rotas= hostilities begun
+
+=rudo, -a= rude, coarse, rough
+
+=ruido= _m._ noise
+
+=ruin= low, base, miserable, wretched, mean
+
+=ruina= _f._ ruin, downfall
+
+=rumor= _m._ rumor, sound, noise
+
+
+=sabedor, -a= aware of, knowing
+
+=saber= _irreg._ know, find out, hear, know how;
+ =qué sé yo= how do I know;
+ =no sé qué= something or other
+
+=sabio, -a= wise, sage, cunning
+
+=Saboya= _f._ Savoy
+
+=sacar= take out, draw out, draw;
+ =~ la espada a= draw on;
+ =~ en limpio= find out, come to a conclusion
+
+=saciar= sate, satiate
+
+=saco= _m._ bag, sack; garment of rough cloth;
+ =como el ~ de sus vicios= like the burden of his sins
+
+=sacrificio= _m._ sacrifice
+
+=sagrado, -a= sacred, holy
+
+=sala= _f._ hall, room
+
+=salida= _f._ departure; exit
+
+=salina= _f._ salt-works
+
+=salir= _irreg._ come out, go out; enter;
+ =~ al encuentro= come to meet
+
+=saliva= _f._ saliva
+
+=salón= _m._ drawing-room, hall
+
+=salud= _f._ health; greeting
+
+=saludar= salute, greet, bow
+
+=saludo= _m._ salute, bow, greeting
+
+=salva= _f._ salute;
+ =hacer una ~= fire a salute
+
+=salvación= _f._ salvation
+
+=salvador, -a= saving
+
+=salvador= _m._ savior
+
+=salvar= save
+
+=salvo, -a= safe;
+ =poner en ~= save
+
+=san= _see_ =santo=
+
+=sandez= _f._ foolishness, stupidity
+
+=sangrar(se)= bleed
+
+=sangre= _f._ blood; stock
+
+=sangriento, -a= blood-stained;
+ =tono ~= bitter tone, mordant tone
+
+=San Lorenzo= St. Lawrence (_l. 2733_, el Escorial)
+
+=San Marcos= St. Mark, _cf. note_
+
+=San Martín= St. Martin, church of St. Martin
+
+=Santiago= _m._ St. James
+
+=santiagués= of the order of St. James
+
+=santo, -a= saint; saintly, holy
+
+=San Vito= _m._ St. Vitus, _see note_
+
+=saña= _f._ rage, fury
+
+=sarcasmo= _m._ sarcasm; bit of irony, bit of sarcasm
+
+=Satanás= _m._ Satan
+
+=sátira= _f._ satire
+
+=sayón= _m._ executioner
+
+=sazón: a la ~= at the time
+
+=se= himself, herself, itself; to himself _etc._;
+ themselves, to themselves; each other, to each other
+
+=se= (=lo, la,= _etc._) to him _etc._
+
+=sé= _see_ =saber=
+
+=seco, -a= dry
+
+=secreto, -a= secret
+
+=secreto= _m._ secret
+
+=seguida=:
+ =en ~= at once, immediately
+
+=seguido, -a= (_pp. of_ =seguir=) followed
+
+=seguir= _irreg._ follow, continue;
+ =os le quiero ~= I would follow your example there
+
+=según= according to, as, judging from;
+ =~ y conforme= it depends;
+ =~ dicen= according to what they say, so they say
+
+=segundo, -a= second
+
+=seguridad= _f._ security
+
+=seguro, -a= secure, infallible, reliable, certain, unfaltering, sure,
+safe;
+ =de ~= surely, undoubtedly
+
+=seis= six
+
+=sellado, -a= (_pp. of_ =sellar=) sealed
+
+=sellar= seal
+
+=sello= _m._ seal, stamp, mark
+
+=semblante= _m._ face, countenance
+
+=sembrar= _irreg._ sow, scatter
+
+=semicírculo= _m._ semicircle
+
+=sentado, -a= (_pp. of_ =sentar=) seated
+
+=sentarse= _irreg._ sit down, be seated
+
+=sentencia= _f._ sentence, decision, maxim
+
+=sentimiento= _m._ emotion, grief, concern
+
+=sentir= _irreg._ feel, perceive, hear; regret, be sorry for
+
+=seña= _f._ sign, signal
+
+=señal= _f._ sign, indication;
+ =en ~ de= as a sign of
+
+=señalado, -a= (_pp. of_ =señalar=) marked, signal
+
+=señalar= point out, point to
+
+=señor= _m._ gentleman, lord, master; sir
+
+=señora= _f._ lady; my lady (_in direct address_)
+
+=separación= _f._ separation
+
+=separado, -a= (_pp. of_ =separar=) separated, removed
+
+=separar= separate, remove
+
+=sepultura= _f._ sepulcher, tomb, grave, burial
+
+=ser= _irreg._ be;
+ =a no ~ por= if it were not for;
+ =es que= the fact is that, the reason is that;
+ =érase= once upon a time there was, _see note, l. 1685_;
+ =sea... sea...= whether... or
+
+=ser= _m._ being, life
+
+=sereno, -a= serene, calm, quiet
+
+=serio, -a= serious, grave
+
+=servicio= _m._ service, benefit
+
+=servidor= _m._ servant, servitor, retainer
+
+=servidumbre= _f._ attendance; household servants and dependents, suite
+
+=servir= _irreg._ serve, be of service, wait upon, act as escort;
+ =~ de= serve as, serve for;
+ =pues a ~me= then do my bidding
+
+=severo, -a= severe, stern
+
+=si= if; indeed;
+ =~ bien= although
+
+=sí= yes, indeed
+
+=sí= himself _etc._
+
+=sicario= _m._ (paid) assassin
+
+=Sicilia= _f._ Sicily
+
+=siempre= always, ever;
+ =~ que= whenever
+
+=sien= _f._ temple
+
+=silencio= _m._ silence
+
+=silla= _f._ chair
+
+=sillón= _m._ armchair, easy chair
+
+=simple= silly, idiotic; artless, ingenuous
+
+=sin= without;
+ =~ embargo= however, nevertheless;
+ =~ que= without, except that
+
+=sinapismo= _m._ sinapism, mustard plaster
+
+=sincero, -a= sincere
+
+=singular= singular, strange, special, particular
+
+=siniestro, -a= sinister, unlucky, threatening, ominous
+
+=sino= but, except;
+ =~ que= but rather; without
+
+=siquiera= even, at least;
+ =ni tan ~= not even
+
+=situación= _f._ situation, plight
+
+=soberano, -a= sovereign, ruling
+
+=soberano= _m._ sovereign, ruler
+
+=sobrar= be more than enough, be in excess, be left over;
+ =me sobra...= I have plenty, I have more than enough
+
+=sobre= over, on, about, to;
+ =~ todo= above all
+
+=sobrescrito= _m._ address, superscription; preliminaries (of letter)
+
+=sociedad= _f._ society
+
+=socorrer= succor, help; send reënforcements; relieve
+
+=socorro= _m._ help, reëenforcements, relief
+
+=sol= _m._ sun
+
+=solamente= only
+
+=soldado= _m._ soldier
+
+=soledad= _f._ solitude
+
+=solemne= solemn, impressive
+
+=solemnidad= _f._ solemnity
+
+=solemnizar= solemnize, celebrate; hold (of ceremony)
+
+=soler= _irreg._ be customary, be accustomed to
+
+=solicitar= solicit, beg
+
+=solicitud= _f._ solicitude
+
+=solio= _m._ canopied throne, throne
+
+=solitario, -a= lonely, solitary, secluded
+
+=solo, -a= alone, solitary, sole, single, empty;
+ =a solas= alone
+
+=sólo= only, solely
+
+=soltar= _irreg._ let go, let out, let loose; relinquish, release
+
+=soltero, -a= single, unmarried
+
+=soltero= _m._ bachelor
+
+=sombra= _f._ shadow, darkness; shade, protection
+
+=sombrero= _m._ hat
+
+=sombrío, -a= gloomy, dark
+
+=son= _m._ sound
+
+=sonar= _irreg._ sound
+
+=soneto= _m._ sonnet
+
+=sonoro, -a= sonorous
+
+=sonreír= _irreg._ smile
+
+=sonrisa= _f._ smile
+
+=sonrojarse= blush
+
+=sonrojo= _m._ blush, affront
+
+=soñar= (_irreg._ =con=) dream
+
+=soplar= blow, blow out, breathe upon; inspire
+
+=soportar= endure, suffer
+
+=sordo, -a= deaf; silent, stealthy
+
+=sorna= _f._ slowness, deliberation
+
+=sorprender= surprise, take unawares
+
+=sorpresa= _f._ surprise
+
+=sosiego= _m._ tranquillity, calm; peace of mind
+
+=sospecha= _f._ suspicion
+
+=sospechar= suspect
+
+=su= his, her, its, their
+
+=súbdito= _m._ subject
+
+=subir= ascend, rise; bring up
+
+=sublime= sublime, heroic, grand
+
+=subrayado, -a= (_pp. of_ =subrayar=) underlined, italicized
+
+=suceder= happen, succeed
+
+=sucesor= _m._ successor, heir
+
+=sudar= sweat, toil
+
+=suelo= _m._ ground, soil
+
+=sueño= _m._ dream, fancy
+
+=suerte= _f._ chance, fortune, destiny
+
+=sufrimiento= _m._ suffering
+
+=sufrir= suffer
+
+=sujetar= subdue, hold fast, catch, restrain
+
+=superior= superior, above
+
+=superlativo, -a= superlative
+
+=supersticioso, -a= superstitious
+
+=súplica= _f._ supplication, petition, request
+
+=suplicante= supplicating
+
+=suplicar= supplicate, beseech
+
+=suponer= _irreg._ suppose
+
+=surcar= plow, furrow
+
+=suspenso, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =suspender=)
+ surprised, astonished, distraught
+
+=suspiro= _m._ sigh
+
+=sustento= _m._ sustenance, food, maintenance
+
+=susto= _m._ shock, surprise, astonishment
+
+=suyo, -a= his, her, their
+
+
+=tahur= _m._ gambler
+
+=tal= such, such a, the aforesaid, this; so;
+ =qué ~= how goes it, how about it;
+ =si ~= surely, by all means
+
+=talento= _m._ talent, genius
+
+=Talía= Thalia, muse of comedy (_see note_)
+
+=también= also
+
+=tamboril= _m._ timbrel
+
+=tan= so, such, so, as, such a;
+ =~ sólo= only;
+ =~... como= as... as;
+ =~... que= as... as
+
+=tanto, -a= so, so much, as much;
+ _pl._ so many, as many;
+ =en ~= meanwhile;
+ =en ~ que= while
+
+=tapado, -a= (_pp. of_ =tapar=) covered (_see note, ll. 5-6_)
+
+=tapa-enredijos= _m._ tangle-screener
+
+=tapar= cover
+
+=tapia= _f._ wall (of yard or garden)
+
+=tarantela= _f._ tarantella
+
+=tardanza= _f._ delay, tardiness
+
+=tardar= delay, be late, be long
+
+=tarde= late, too late
+
+=tarde= _f._ afternoon
+
+=Tarifa= _f._ Tarifa, _cf. note_
+
+=te= you, to you
+
+=teatral= theatrical
+
+=teatro= _m._ theater
+
+=tedio= _m._ tedium, weariness
+
+=telón= _m._ curtain
+
+=temblar= _irreg._ tremble
+
+=temblor= _m._ trembling, agitation
+
+=temer= fear, be afraid;
+ =~se= fear, be afraid
+
+=temerario, -a= daring, rash, imprudent
+
+=temor= _m._ fear
+
+=templanza= _f._ moderation
+
+=temple= _m._ temper
+
+=templo= _m._ temple, church
+
+=tenaz= (_pl._ =~ces=) tenacious, obstinate
+
+=tender= _irreg._ stretch forth, hold out
+
+=tendido, -a= (_pp. of_ =tender=) stretched out, lying prone
+
+=tener= _irreg._ have, hold, keep;
+ =~ hambre= be hungry;
+ =~ gracia= be funny, be witty;
+ =~ razón= be right;
+ =~ miedo= be afraid;
+ =~ presente= bear in mind;
+ =~ que= must;
+ =~ de= must;
+ =~ a bien= regard as advisable;
+ =~ para sí= have an opinion;
+ =tengo para mí= my own opinion is;
+ =~ en cuenta= take into consideration;
+ =ya te tengo bien seguro= now I have you where I want you;
+ =téngame Dios de su mano= may heaven restrain me;
+ =qué tiene= what is the matter with him
+
+=tercero, -a= third;
+ =Islas Terceras= Azores, _cf. note_
+
+=terciana= _f._ tertian fever, chills and fever
+
+=terminante= definite, final
+
+=término= _m._ term, end;
+ =primer ~= foreground (side);
+ =segundo ~= background (side);
+ =sin más ~ ni espacio= without a moment of grace
+
+=ternura= _f._ tenderness
+
+=terrible= terrible
+
+=terror= _m._ terror
+
+=tesoro= _m._ treasure, treasury
+
+=testigo= _m._ witness
+
+=testimonio= _m._ testimony;
+ =falso ~= false accusation
+
+=ti= you
+
+=tiempo= _m._ time;
+ =a ~= on time, at the right time;
+ =a ~ de= while, as;
+ =al ~ que= at the same time as;
+ =a su ~= at the proper time;
+ =algún ~= some day, once;
+ =en otro ~= once, formerly
+
+=tierra= _f._ earth, world, ground
+
+=timidez= _f._ timidity
+
+=tinieblas= _f._ total darkness; Tenebræ (morning prayers of the
+ last three days of Holy Week; these prayers are recited not on
+ the mornings to which they belong, but on the evenings of the
+ preceding days)
+
+=tinta= _f._ ink, tint, color
+
+=tirano, -a= tyrannical
+
+=tirano= _m._ tyrant
+
+=tirar= throw, fling, hurl; fire (a gun)
+
+=tiro= _m._ shot
+
+=tocar= touch, belong to, behoove, be a duty, find out; play
+ (of musical instrument);
+ =el desengaño toca= is discovering her mistake;
+ =bien tocáis vuestros registros= you pull your stops well, you play
+your cards well
+
+=todo, -a= all, whole, every, everything;
+ =con todo= nevertheless;
+ =del todo= entirely, completely;
+ =toda una Infanta de España= no less a personage than an infanta of
+Spain
+
+=Toledo= _m. or f._ Toledo, _see note_
+
+=tomar= take;
+ =~ más cuerpo= increase
+
+=tono= _m._ tone
+
+=tonto, -a= foolish
+
+=tonto= _m._ fool
+
+=torbellino= _m._ whirlwind
+
+=tormenta= _f._ storm
+
+=tormento= _m._ torment, torture, anguish
+
+=tornar= return
+
+=torno= _m._ turn;
+ =en ~= round, about
+
+=torpe= infamous; dull, rude, clumsy
+
+=torpeza= _f._ clumsiness, stupidity
+
+=traer= _irreg._ bring, draw, carry
+
+=tragar= swallow
+
+=tragedia= _f._ tragedy
+
+=traición= _f._ treachery;
+ =a ~= treacherously
+
+=traidor= _m._ traitor
+
+=traje= _m._ clothes, suit
+
+=trama= _f._ deceit, plot, machination
+
+=tramar= weave, plot
+
+=trance= _m._ peril, extremity
+
+=tranquilo, -a= tranquil, quiet
+
+=tras (de)= after, behind
+
+=trastornar= upset, disorder, confuse
+
+=tratar= treat, handle;
+ =~ de= try to
+
+=trazar= plan, arrange; plot
+
+=treinta= thirty
+
+=trémulo, -a= tremulous, trembling
+
+=tres= three
+
+=trescientos, -as= three hundred
+
+=triaca= _f._ antidote
+
+=tributo= _m._ tribute
+
+=triste= sad, gloomy, dejected
+
+=tristeza= _f._ sadness, sorrow, affliction
+
+=triunfante= triumphant
+
+=triunfar= triumph;
+ =~ de= triumph over
+
+=triunfo= _m._ triumph;
+ =la palma del ~= the palm of victory
+
+=trocar= _irreg._ exchange
+
+=trocito= _m._ (_dim. of_ =trozo=) small fragment, bit
+
+=tronco= _m._ trunk (of tree etc.)
+
+=trono= _m._ throne
+
+=tropa= _f._ troops
+
+=tropezar= _irreg._ stumble
+
+=trueno= _m._. thunderclap, thunder;
+ =noche de ~s= dark and threatening night
+
+=trueque= _m._ exchange
+
+=tu= your, thy
+
+=tú= you, thou
+
+=tumba= _f._ tomb, grave
+
+=turbación= _f._ perturbation, confusion
+
+=turbado, -a= (_pp. of_ =turbar=) perturbed, confused
+
+=turbar= disturb, trouble, alarm
+
+=tuyo, -a= your, thy;
+ =el tuyo, la tuya= yours, thine
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+=último, -a= last
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+=umbral= _m._ threshold
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+=uno, -a= one;
+ _pl._ some;
+ =unas... otras= some... others
+
+=un(o), -a= a, an
+
+=Urías= Uriah, _see note_
+
+=uso= _m._ use
+
+
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+=vago, -a= vague
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+=valedor= _m._ protector, defender
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+=veinticinco= twenty-five
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+=velar= watch, be vigilant, keep vigil;
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+ =tal ~= perhaps;
+ =a su ~= in his turn;
+ =a veces= at times
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+
+=viceversa= vice versa
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+=vil= vile, base
+
+=villa= _f._ town, country estate
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+=Villamediana= _proper name_ (_cf. Hist. Introd._)
+
+=Villaviciosa= _f._ _cf. note_
+
+=viña= _f._ vineyard
+
+=violencia= _f._ violence, force, intensity;
+ =con ~= forcing the words
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+=Virgen= _f._ the Virgin
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+ =corto de ~= near-sighted
+
+=visto, -a= (_pp. irreg. of_ =ver=) seen;
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+
+=viuda= _f._ widow
+
+=viudez= _f._ widowhood, widowerhood
+
+=viudo= _m._ widower
+
+=viveza= _f._ vivacity, spirit
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+=vivir= to live;
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+=vivo, -a= living, alive, lively, keen
+
+=volcar= _irreg._ overturn, upset
+
+=voluntad= _f._ will, purpose
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+=volver= _irreg._ turn, return, restore;
+ =~se= turn around, return;
+ =~ a...= (_infin._) to... again;
+ =~ sobre sí= come to one's senses, collect one's self
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+=vos= you
+
+=vosotros, -as= you
+
+=votar= vow, vote, swear;
+ =voto a= I swear by;
+ =voto a veinticinco santos= I vow by all the saints
+
+=voto= _m._ vow
+
+=voz= _f._ voice; rumor, report;
+ =en ~ alta= aloud;
+ =en ~ baja= in an undertone
+
+=vuecencia= your excellency
+
+=vuelta= _f._ return
+
+=vuesa= _archaic for_ =vuestra=
+
+=vuestro, -a= your;
+ =el vuestro, la vuestra,= yours
+
+
+=Wiranzan= _m._ Besançon, _cf. note_
+
+
+=y= and
+
+=ya= already, now, by now, by this time;
+ =~ que= now that, since
+
+=yacer= _irreg._ lie
+
+=yo= I
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+=yugo= _m._ yoke
+
+
+=zaguán= _m._ entrance, vestibule
+
+=zozobra= _f._ anxiety, care, unrest
+
+=zumbón, -a= waggish, jesting
+
+
+
+
+
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+<h1>DON FRANCISCO DE<br /> QUEVEDO</h1>
+
+<h3>DRAMA EN CUATRO ACTOS<br />
+POR<br />
+EULOGIO FLORENTINO SANZ</h3>
+
+<p class="center">EDITED BY<br /> R. SELDEN ROSE, PH.D.</p>
+
+<p class="center">INSTRUCTOR IN SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA</p>
+
+<p class="center">GINN AND COMPANY<br />
+BOSTON&mdash;NEW YORK&mdash;CHICAGO&mdash;LONDON<br />
+ATLANTA&mdash;DALLAS&mdash;COLUMBUS&mdash;SAN FRANCISCO</p>
+
+<p class="center">COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY<br /> R. SELDEN ROSE<br />
+ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</p>
+
+<p class="center"><b>The Athen&aelig;um Press</b><br />
+&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;<br />
+GINN AND COMPANY&mdash;PROPRIETORS&mdash;BOSTON&mdash;U.S.A.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a>PREFACE</h2>
+
+
+<p>The features of "Don Francisco de Quevedo" that led to its selection as
+a text for the use of students of the second or even first year are its
+historical background, its ease and purity of style, and the sustained
+interest of the plot. As regards the chief character, Quevedo, he is in
+a large measure the embodiment of the whole literary spirit of the first
+half of the seventeenth century and at the same time the champion of
+political reform. The play is written in Castilian of such simplicity
+that it presents almost no syntactical difficulties, and at the same
+time embodies a useful vocabulary. The development of the plot, the
+struggle between Olivares and Quevedo, is thoroughly logical and is
+aided by scenes so intensely dramatic that they hold the interest of the
+reader at all times. Some of these scenes, so characteristic of even the
+best plays of the Romantic School, to-day seem to verge on the
+melodramatic. For this reason the student should be reminded that the
+heroic thunder of this kind of play was most acceptable to the
+theater-goers of the middle of the last century. A sense of humor, then,
+should temper any critical attitude on the part of those who may be
+inclined to take our play's shortcomings or exaggerations too seriously.</p>
+
+<p>The fact that Florentino Sanz is comparatively unknown will justify the
+detailed Biographical Sketch.</p>
+
+<p>The text is a careful reproduction of that of the first edition, Madrid,
+1848, except, of course, for frequent corrections in punctuation. Only
+the important stage directions have been retained; others that in great
+profusion specify the facial expression and tone of voice of the actors
+have been rejected in many places as more cumbersome than useful.</p>
+
+<p class="sign">R.S.R.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+<table summary="toc" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
+<tr><td><a href="#PREFACE"><b>PREFACE</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#EULOGIO_FLORENTINO_SANZ"><b><span class="smcap">Eulogio Florentino Sanz</span></b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#HISTORICAL_INTRODUCTION"><b><span class="smcap">Historical Introduction</span></b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#VERSIFICATION"><b><span class="smcap">Versification</span></b></a><br /><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#DON_FRANCISCO_DE_QUEVEDO"><span style="font-size: 150%;"><b>DON FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO</b></span></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#ACTO_I">&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>ACTO I</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#ACTO_SEGUNDO">&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>ACTO SEGUNDO</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#ACTO_TERCERO">&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>ACTO TERCERO</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#ACTO_CUARTO">&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>ACTO CUARTO</b></a><br /><br /></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#NOTES"><b>NOTES</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#VOCABULARY"><b><span class="smcap">Vocabulary</span></b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#FOOTNOTES"><b><span class="smcap">Footnotes</span></b></a></td></tr>
+
+</table>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="EULOGIO_FLORENTINO_SANZ" id="EULOGIO_FLORENTINO_SANZ"></a>EULOGIO FLORENTINO SANZ</h2>
+
+<p class="center">BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH</p>
+
+
+<p>The name of Eulogio Florentino Sanz is little known outside of Spain,
+where for more than seventy years it has been closely linked with his
+chief dramatic achievement, "Don Francisco de Quevedo," and with his
+translations from Heine. Now and then the plea that something be done
+toward bringing out an edition of his works has found expression but met
+with no response. To read his scattered verses it is necessary to search
+the pages of that wilderness of papers, dailies, weeklies, monthlies,
+and annuals, which appeared in Madrid between 1840 and 1870. Though we
+are told that he wrote much, it is none the less true that he published
+next to nothing. In 1848, at the age of twenty-seven he was freely
+spoken of as one of the most promising of his generation of poets and
+dramatists. Vanity and indolence at maturity prevented his fulfilling
+the promise.</p>
+
+<p>His boyhood was spent in Ar&eacute;valo in the province of &Aacute;vila, where he was
+born March 11, 1821. The village priest taught him Latin, and later he
+may have been a student at the University of Valladolid. Of the years
+that passed before he came to Madrid we know little besides a few
+anecdotes. According to one of these Sanz paid youthful court to the
+daughter of a glazier whose ruin was threatened by lack of business. The
+daughter told young Florentino of her father's difficulties in the
+course of an evening interview, whereupon the ambitious lover quickly
+organized a band of followers and broke all the windows in Ar&eacute;valo.</p>
+
+<p>Early in February of 1843 he was in Madrid, where he began to write for
+the newspapers. Two years later a few poems published in the <i>Semanario
+Pintoresco</i>, <i>El Heraldo</i>, and <i>La Risa</i> won him some recognition. He
+now identified himself with the group of romantic poets who held their
+meetings in the famous Caf&eacute; del Pr&iacute;ncipe. His sonnet "La Discordia,"
+published in the <i>Semanario Pintoresco</i>, February, 1843, furnishes
+indisputable evidence of his romantic tendencies. In it a waning moon,
+fratricide, corpses, "infernal sonrisa," and an agonized mother provide
+all the thrills of romantic horror; but it may be wiser to pass over in
+silence such outbursts as this.</p>
+
+<p>As a member of a circle which gathered in the Caf&eacute; del Recreo (1846) he
+lived in the very thick of romanticism. Its meetings are thus described:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>At that time there existed in Madrid a club of literary fledglings.
+The majority of the young men who ten years later had won
+conspicuous places in the world of letters gathered there without
+knowing exactly why. The nucleus at the Caf&eacute; del Recreo had been
+formed by no one, nobody was formally presented, no one of our
+number had been a friend or schoolmate of any one of the others;
+the gathering was there <i>because it was there</i>, it existed <i>because
+it existed</i>. The company included besides Sanz himself the poets
+Mariano Cazurro, Antonio Trueba, Ventura Ruiz Aguilera, Antonio
+Hurtado, Jos&eacute; Albuerne, Antonio Arnao, the journalist Eduardo
+Asquerino, the statesman C&aacute;novas, and the dramatist Fern&aacute;ndez y
+Gonz&aacute;lez.&mdash;Jos&eacute; de Castro y Serrano, <i>Pr&oacute;logo</i> (pp. ix-x) to "Obras
+de Francisco Zea," Madrid, 1858.</p></div>
+
+<p>The movements and activities of Sanz in the literary world began to be
+chronicled in such papers as the <i>Fandango</i>, published by Wencelao
+Ayguals de Izco and Francisco Villegas. They speak of him as "our friend
+and collaborator." From them we learn that he was occupied in writing
+<i>semblanzas</i>, or portraits, of the most conspicuous literary lights of
+the hour. Though these <i>semblanzas</i> seem to have circulated in
+manuscript, they never were printed. Eduardo de Lusto&ntilde;&oacute; declared<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>
+that Sanz was always a presumptuous person and particularly so in 1845.
+Lusto&ntilde;&oacute; wrote a squib, stupid enough to be sure, in which he implies
+that the purpose of the <i>semblanzas</i> was to ridicule the pedants.
+Lusto&ntilde;&oacute; enrolled him as private soldier in what he called his "Regiment
+of Men of Letters," but it was an unconscious tribute to the ability of
+Sanz to admit him even as a private in a regiment whose officers were:
+Colonel, Quintana; Majors, Hartzenbusch, Tassara; Captains, Bret&oacute;n,
+Rivas; Lieutenants, Campoamor, Mesonero Romanos, and Fr&iacute;as,&mdash;all of whom
+have won enduring fame.</p>
+
+<p>On the night of February 1, 1848, "Don Francisco de Quevedo" was
+presented in the Teatro del Pr&iacute;ncipe. The distinguished actor and poet
+Don Julian Romea chose the occasion for a benefit performance. The play
+was an instant success. The number of the <i>Semanario Pintoresco</i> which
+followed the first performance printed a flattering review:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The drama "Don Francisco de Quevedo," presented at the Pr&iacute;ncipe for
+the benefit of Don Julian Romea, has won for its author, Don
+Eulogio Florentino Sanz, a place of distinction among our
+dramatists. Success in portraying the personage from whom the piece
+takes its name, resourceful stagecraft, daring situations, and a
+versification now serious, now gay, frolicsome or sorrowful, but
+always agreeable, facile, and correct, these are the distinguishing
+features of the play with which Se&ntilde;or Sanz has made himself known
+to the theater-going public. Don Julian Romea gave an able
+interpretation of the part of Don Francisco de Quevedo, Se&ntilde;ora D&iacute;az
+was excellent as the Infanta Margarita. The rest of the cast
+contributed ably to the success of the drama.</p></div>
+
+<p>This notice conveys some idea of the striking enthusiasm with which the
+piece was received.</p>
+
+<p>In keeping with his literary predilections Sanz had already identified
+himself politically with the progressive liberal party.</p>
+
+<p>In the years immediately preceding the overthrow of the Conservatives
+(1845) Sanz gave his services to the progressive liberal cause. In 1849
+he was editor of <i>La Patria</i>, whose first number appeared on January 2.
+It announced a policy of political moderation, but its real purpose was
+the most strenuous opposition to the government of the reactionary
+conservatives. Sanz was generally believed to be editor-in-chief.
+Suddenly on the fourth of January he resigned<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> with no explanation
+whatsoever to the subscribers. A little later he appeared on the staff
+of <i>La V&iacute;bora, peri&oacute;dico venenoso redactado por los peores literatos de
+Espa&ntilde;a, bajo la direcci&oacute;n de nadie</i> ("The Viper, a venomous paper,
+edited by the worst scribblers in Spain, under the management of
+nobody"). The censorship was as crushing as in the days of Larra. Later,
+in September, <i>La Patria</i> announced another periodical, <i>La S&aacute;tira</i>,
+adding that it was to be under the direction of the editors of the
+short-lived <i>V&iacute;bora</i>. This second attempt also met with disaster. Again
+in June of 1851 Sanz resigned from another paper, <i>El Mundo Nuevo</i>.</p>
+
+<p>In 1854 the tide turned. The revolution of July found him writing his
+second play, "Los Achaques de la Vejez."<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> The conclusion of the last
+act had to be postponed while Sanz was taking part in the popular rising
+which he had so earnestly sought. While he was waiting for his share of
+the rewards of victory the play was produced at the Pr&iacute;ncipe on the
+evening of October 13. On the fourteenth there appeared in <i>La Iberia</i>
+the following notice, written probably by his devoted friend Pedro Calvo
+Asensio:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Los Achaques de la Vejez</i>. This notable comedy by the gifted and
+well-known author Don Eulogio Florentino Sanz was played</p></div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>last night with brilliant success. At the end of the second act the
+author was called upon the stage, and at the end of the play the
+enthusiasm of the audience grew to such extraordinary proportions
+that Sr. Sanz was again called upon to appear. However, we were
+denied the satisfaction of seeing him, as he had left the theater.
+The actors also were called before the curtain amidst tumultuous
+applause as a just reward for their signal success in the
+presentation of the play. The audience was as we had expected,
+large and select. Our conviction that the management may look
+forward to well-filled houses gives us great satisfaction.</p></div>
+
+<p>The writing of this play was in a measure Sanz's answer to the challenge
+of his enemies and detractors to repeat the success of "Don Francisco de
+Quevedo." By this second triumph his fame and reputation were firmly
+established. This time the theme is a domestic one developed with even
+greater skill than that displayed in the earlier play. As might be
+expected, Act I, scene iv, contains a pessimistic and cynical allusion
+to the tangled politics that preceded the revolution.</p>
+
+<p>By a royal order of November 11 Sanz was appointed secretary of the
+first class to the Spanish legation in Berlin.<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> This appointment he
+probably owed to the good offices of his friend Nicomedes Pastor D&iacute;az.
+Sanz took possession of his new post on the ninth of January, 1855,
+after having made the journey from Madrid in the company of Gregorio
+Cruzada Villamil. In June he was granted four months' leave of absence
+on account of ill health due to the severity of the climate. In August
+he was made Commander of the Order of Charles III in recognition of his
+distinguished service. His final resignation from the post was received
+in November of 1856. He left Berlin for Madrid on February 1, 1857.</p>
+
+<p>His only poem surely written in Berlin is the "Ep&iacute;stola a Pedro."<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> It
+is a tender tribute to the memory of the poet Enrique Gil, who had died
+in Berlin ten years before. Its verses are among the most delicately
+beautiful that Sanz ever wrote. The poem opens with an expression of the
+longing which Sanz feels for his beloved Spain, and above all for
+Madrid:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Pues recuerda la patria, a los reflejos<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">de su distante sol, el desterrado<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">como recuerdan su ni&ntilde;ez los viejos.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>He stands before the grave of Enrique Gil and mourns for the poet who
+died unwept in a foreign land. In deep sincerity of feeling no other
+poem of Sanz approaches the "Ep&iacute;stola." Fortunately it has been given to
+the public both in Men&eacute;ndez y Pelayo's "Cien Mejores Poes&iacute;as" and in
+"The Oxford Book of Spanish Verse."</p>
+
+<p>These two years of residence in Berlin had a profound effect upon the
+temper of Sanz's later verse. It was only natural that his removal from
+the turmoil of life in Madrid, with its petty jealousies and quarrels,
+literary and political, should exercise a broadening and sobering
+influence upon his muse. After this date the flow of idle humorous verse
+ceased. Inspired chiefly by the exquisite delicacy of Heine's lyrics, he
+set himself to imitation and translation of his German model. It is not
+too much to say that all his published verse after this was deeply
+tinged with this side of Heine.</p>
+
+<p>In the spring of 1857 he was in Madrid again, enjoying his prestige as a
+poet, diplomat, and political writer. His presence at a gathering of
+literary men in May to do honor to the memory of the great Quintana was
+an event.<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> A week earlier his translation of fifteen of Heine's lyrics
+had appeared in the <i>Museo Universal</i> under the caption "Poes&iacute;a Alemana,
+Canciones de Enrique Heine." What a grateful contrast they furnish to
+the undisciplined bursts of romantic thunder that he was writing only a
+few years before! Sanz had been completely won over to the intense
+refinement of emotion and diction of Heine. From this time on, the
+expression of gentle melancholy and spiritual sensitiveness dominates
+the few poems that he published.</p>
+
+<p>The brief taste of diplomatic life which he had had seems to have put an
+end to any really creative activity. A tribute to the memory of the
+young poet Francisco Zea, written in May, 1858,<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> contains what is
+really his farewell to a life of letters. Therein, after discussing the
+pessimistic statement of Larra that in Spain "No se lee porque no se
+escribe, y no se escribe porque no se lee," he declares that people in
+Spain are writing, but that no one is reading. It is not the fault of
+those who write, he continues, and waste the treasures of their youth in
+a fruitless struggle. In Spain one must write for pure love of letters,
+and unfortunately this is the most platonic of loves. There are few
+readers of literature in general, and of lyric poetry almost none. He
+resents the intrusion of the latter into the drama, where it is heard
+with pleasure by people, comfortably seated in stalls, who in the
+morning could not endure Fray Luis de Le&oacute;n or Francisco de la Torre. His
+small stock of patience exhausted, Sanz turned to diplomatic life.</p>
+
+<p>On the eleventh of August of 1859 he was appointed Minister to the
+Empire of Brazil, and on the same day he was named representative in the
+Cortes. A month later he wrote to the Secretary of State to say that he
+must resign the post "for reasons which I have had the honor to submit
+verbally to your Excellency's consideration." At this time he seems to
+have gone into complete retirement, resisting the entreaties of
+theater-managers and actors to write again for the stage. In the next
+fourteen years he published only a half-dozen or more poems, although
+his name appeared in the list of <i>colaboradores</i> of several papers,
+among them the <i>Gaceta Literaria</i>, <i>Espa&ntilde;a Literaria</i>, and <i>La Am&eacute;rica</i>.
+Apparently his disillusionment was complete. In the <i>Versos a Amalia</i>
+(<i>La Am&eacute;rica</i>, Sept. 8, 1858) are these significant lines:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Sonre&iacute; de ambici&oacute;n ante la vana<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Sombra de mi deseo;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Y al despuntar el sol de mi ma&ntilde;ana,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Vi mi horizonte azul (&iexcl;que ya no veo!)...<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Yo fu&eacute; persiguiendo la l&iacute;mpida estrella<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Que all&aacute; en lontananza<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Resplandece entre todas; aquella<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Que deslumbra con locos reflejos,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Que siempre se sigue, que nunca se alcanza.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">&iexcl;P&eacute;rfida estrella de la esperanza<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Que alumbra s&oacute;lo, s&oacute;lo de lejos!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Yo en la mar busqu&eacute; la gloria<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Y de all&iacute; torno sin ella.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>In September of 1872 Sanz was drawn from his retreat by an appointment
+to Tangier as Minister Plenipotentiary at a salary of 15,000 pesetas
+annually. He began his duties in December and continued at his post for
+exactly a year. Again he pleaded ill health and was granted two months'
+leave of absence. That he did not return immediately to Madrid is clear
+from his request of February 12 to be allowed to bring into Cadiz, duty
+free, a hundred bottles of wine. Early in January, 1873, his appointment
+to Tangier was confirmed by Amadeo. On the establishment of the
+republic in February Sanz tendered his resignation, but Castelar himself
+refused to accept it. In June he finally left his post at Tangier after
+having been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of
+Mexico. As usual he excused himself on the ground of ill health, and his
+resignation was accepted in the following September. Sanz certainly
+could not complain that his merits were unrecognized. In the decree
+appointing him to the post at Tangier his honors are mentioned as <i>Gran
+Cruz de la Real y Distinguida Orden de Carlos III, Orden Civil de Maria
+Victoria, Caballero de la &Iacute;nclita de San Juan de Jerusalem, ex Diputado
+a Cortes</i>.</p>
+
+<p>His movements from this time forward are extremely difficult to follow.
+In 1878 his name appears in the official list of members of the
+<i>Asociaci&oacute;n de Escritores y Artistas</i>, and his domicile is given as 45
+Calle de Atocha. The men that knew him in the closing years of his life
+agree that he dragged out a miserable existence in the utmost poverty,
+dependent upon the generosity of his friends. They speak highly of his
+moral integrity, deploring at the same time the weakness of character
+which prevented his realizing the promise of his early years. He died
+April 29, 1881, and was buried in the cemetery of San Lorenzo.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="HISTORICAL_INTRODUCTION" id="HISTORICAL_INTRODUCTION"></a>HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION</h2>
+
+
+<p>When Philip IV became king of Spain in 1621 he inherited a kingdom whose
+resources had been recklessly wasted. His father, Philip III, had been
+ruled by the most inept of ministers, the Duke of Lerma. Great sums of
+money, wrung from the productive lower classes, had been spent to carry
+on a fruitless war in the Netherlands, to provide amusement for an idle,
+frivolous court, and to fill the pockets of the minister's creatures.
+Government was in the hands of a bureaucracy of parasites. The
+collective conscience of the governing class had withered and died. The
+office-holders in this bureaucracy had come to regard the acquisition of
+riches at the expense of the state as one of their official privileges.</p>
+
+<p>If Spain were to maintain her pre&euml;minent position as the greatest power
+in Europe the most radical economic reform was necessary. Stimulus must
+be given to the productive activity of the country by relief from
+oppressive taxation, and expenditure must be wisely restrained and
+administered.</p>
+
+<p>The situation demanded a man of exceptional keenness of vision, great
+energy, and absolute integrity. There were not lacking men who foresaw
+the disaster that threatened, men who still kept some of that energy and
+fearlessness that had made America a Spanish dependency, but such
+individuals were silenced as menaces rather than encouraged as helpers.
+In Philip himself the mental vigor and physical stamina of the Spanish
+Hapsburgs had been greatly diminished. The consanguineous marriages of
+his immediate ancestors had weakened the stock. There can be no doubt
+that he loved his people in his own pitiful, ineffectual way, but he
+was hopelessly weak; lacking in the ability and even the will to rule,
+he delegated government to Don Gaspar de Guzm&aacute;n, Count of Olivares and
+soon to be the first Duke of San L&uacute;car.</p>
+
+<p>Here, on the other hand, was a man of undoubted energy and courage. Yet
+his weakness was his utter lack of vision and his inability to profit by
+the mistakes of his predecessors. He had many a lesson to learn in the
+failure of the reigns of Philip II and Philip III; he should have seen
+that the reason for the disasters of the former was the continuance of a
+hopeless war in the Netherlands for the sake of an ideal of religious
+unity which the progress of the sixteenth century had made impossible;
+above all he should have realized the economic folly of a system of
+taxation and industrial repression that was choking the nation.</p>
+
+<p>Olivares himself was to blame for the initial appearance in the
+machinery of the State of only a few vital weaknesses, for at the
+beginning of his administration many fatal tendencies were already at
+work. But because he failed to check those tendencies he must ever be
+the scapegoat. To be sure he signalized his arrival by a few months of
+rigid economy, but he did not cut deep enough. He soon realized the
+futility of saving where there was nothing to save. Then, either because
+he failed to see the source of the evil or because he lacked the
+constructive ability to attack it, he went to the extreme of lavish
+expenditure. As the situation grew more and more hopeless he temporized,
+striving to hide the internal decay beneath a gilded exterior of
+ostentatious wealth. As he plunged deeper his critics grew bolder, and
+to silence them his rule became more barbarously arbitrary.</p>
+
+<p>Moreover, he found himself face to face with the great Richelieu at the
+head of a rich and well-administered France. Under him France was to
+become organized and to extend her dominions to her natural physical
+boundaries&mdash;at the expense of Spain. Olivares ruled Spain from 1621
+until 1643, Richelieu ruled France from 1622 until 1642; it was a
+life-long duel between the two ministers. Richelieu laid the foundation
+for the greatness of Louis XIV, while Olivares made inevitable the
+abject impotence of Spain under Charles II.</p>
+
+<p>The culminating disasters began to arrive in 1640 with the rebellion of
+Catalonia. The determination of the Catalans in 1626 to grant Philip no
+more arbitrary taxes marks the beginning of the revolt that ended with
+the entire loss of Catalonia. Olivares could never forget its opposition
+to his will. While the Catalans in 1639 were bravely resisting the
+entrance of French troops into Roussillon, Santa Coloma, the viceroy of
+Olivares, made even more severe his policy of sternness and repression.
+The Catalans were to be driven against the French and to be made to
+understand by the application of brute force that the welfare of their
+particular province was of small importance beside the prosperity of the
+kingdom in general. The Spanish soldiers quartered upon them behaved
+with such lawlessness that in May of 1640 the population of Barcelona
+broke into open rebellion. Santa Coloma was cut down in his attempt to
+escape the consequences of his lack of diplomacy and tact. From
+Barcelona the revolt soon spread through the entire province. It has
+been said that the gentle measures of repression inaugurated by the new
+viceroy, the Duke of Cardona, particularly displeased Olivares, who saw
+at last what he believed to be his opportunity utterly to crush Catalan
+liberty. The answer of the Catalans was to throw themselves into the
+hands of the French and Richelieu, by seeking foreign aid against
+Castile.</p>
+
+<p>In September 1640 an army under the Marqu&eacute;s de los V&eacute;lez was sent north
+to straighten out the tangled affairs of Catalonia. At first he was
+successful, but in January 1641 he was beaten back from Barcelona itself
+after a bloody defeat at the hands of the local soldiery.</p>
+
+<p>To make sure of French aid the rebels offered their allegiance to Louis
+XIII of France, and the revolt was kept alive with French money and
+soldiers, while Philip's armies were invariably defeated.</p>
+
+<p>To complete our picture of the political situation we must turn for a
+moment to Portugal. There reluctant allegiance to the Spanish crown had
+already been severely strained during the previous reign by the
+high-handed procedure of Lerma, the favorite of Philip III. Portuguese
+administrative offices had been filled in Madrid, and the country was
+inconsiderately taxed to maintain Castilian sovereignty. Under Philip IV
+the regent of the kingdom was Do&ntilde;a Margarita, Duchess of Mantua and
+granddaughter of Philip II.<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> While she was ostensibly in control of
+the difficult Portuguese situation, the real ruler was Don Miguel
+Vasconcellos, a Portuguese of scant ability and bloodthirsty instincts;
+he was kept in command by Olivares dictating from Madrid. The
+announcement of Vasconcellos to the nation that it was the intention of
+Olivares to remove the last vestige of constitutional rule in Portugal
+by the suppression of the Portuguese Cortes drove the patriots to rally
+about the Duke of Braganza. A well-planned conspiracy was set on foot to
+place Braganza on the throne of Portugal and thus to rid the country
+forever of the hated Castilian sovereignty.</p>
+
+<p>After the failure of all his attempts to bring Braganza to Madrid,
+Olivares tried desperately to win his favor by apparently putting the
+fate of Portugal entirely in his hands. It was a fatal course. Olivares
+sent him large sums of money to raise troops to keep the Portuguese
+situation in control and help in the repression of the Catalans; then he
+put Braganza at the head of them.</p>
+
+<p>In November of 1640 Braganza proclaimed himself king. The regent
+Margaret was imprisoned. Vasconcellos was killed by the mob.</p>
+
+<p>The news was received in Madrid with the deepest dismay. Pellicer<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a>
+wrote: "These announcements should be written with blood, and deserve to
+be wept over rather than written, for they contain nothing less than the
+rebellion of Portugal and the coronation of Don Juan, whom they call
+Juan IV, the Duke of Braganza." It is commonly stated that Olivares
+announced the news of the rebellion to Philip by congratulating him upon
+the opportunity thus offered to seize the property of Braganza.</p>
+
+<p>To add to the troubles in Portugal and Catalonia just described, a plot
+by the Duke of Medina Sidonia to make himself independent sovereign of
+Andalusia was discovered only just in time to prevent a serious rising.</p>
+
+<p>The advisability of Philip's putting himself in person at the head of
+the troops in the north had long been the subject of earnest and bitter
+discussion between Olivares and his enemies. The latter had urged upon
+Philip the necessity of seeing with his own eyes the pass to which
+matters had been brought by the ineptitude and recklessness of his
+minister. This could best be accomplished by a visit of inspection to
+the revolted provinces. Moreover, with Philip and Olivares away from the
+capital the queen and those of the nobility who were working for the
+downfall of Olivares could proceed with a freer hand.</p>
+
+<p>When once the royal party had left, Do&ntilde;a Isabel set about her task with
+true nobility and great energy. She was almost heroic in her efforts to
+encourage and inspire with loyalty to the crown the troops garrisoned in
+Madrid. She even sold her jewels to raise money for the campaign in
+Aragon.</p>
+
+<p>Philip, meanwhile, was traveling slowly northward with great pomp and
+ceremony. Olivares was straining every nerve to prevent the king's
+realizing the desperateness of the situation. The monarch was denied to
+all visitors, and his attention was distracted by elaborate hunting
+expeditions. As he progressed toward Aragon, the French, moving
+southward, occupied Monz&oacute;n.</p>
+
+<p>December of 1642 found Philip again in Madrid. Portugal was hopelessly
+lost, Roussillon was in the hands of the French, while Catalonia and
+Aragon were in open revolt. Briefly sketched, this was the political
+situation at the opening of our play.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>While Spain was at this time economically bankrupt, the reigns of Philip
+III and Philip IV comprise nevertheless the most brilliant decades of
+the Golden Century. These are the years that are marked by the greatest
+literary activity of Lope de Vega, Cervantes, and Quevedo. Lope had made
+the theater national and had prepared the way for the romantic genius of
+Calder&oacute;n, while a throng of lesser lights, such as Tirso de Molina and
+Juan Ruiz de Alarc&oacute;n, were delighting the capital with plays in great
+profusion. For all this a great stimulus had come from the
+theater-loving Philip III, who lavished money without stint upon the
+gorgeous production of comedies, pageants, and masques.</p>
+
+<p>Cervantes had shown the way to the novelists. In prose fiction true
+characterization had developed to keep pace with extensive and elaborate
+narrative elements. At the same time the outburst of lyric poetry was no
+less striking. The ability to write verse had become truly a necessary
+qualification for social success and even for political advancement.
+Great magnates surrounded themselves with a retinue of poets and men of
+letters who depended upon them for their support.</p>
+
+<p>Don Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, the central figure of our play, was
+one of the greatest personalities in this brilliant court. He was born
+in 1580. At barely twenty he left the University of Alcal&aacute; and plunged
+immediately into the life of the magnificently corrupt court of Philip
+III at Valladolid. When the capital was moved to Madrid in 1606 he had
+already won fame as a poet. The manuscripts of his satirical writings
+in prose and verse were eagerly sought and widely read. His thrusts were
+aimed at the ridiculous aspects of court life. His own indulgence in a
+career of thorough dissipation filled him with contempt for his wretched
+companions. Intimate association with men in high positions reached by
+either noble birth or corrupt influence made him familiar with the vices
+of Philip's government and with the ineffectiveness of the Spanish
+bureaucratic administration. In his "Sue&ntilde;os" (Visions) he satirized
+unsparingly men from all the walks of life. His attacks were at times
+mocking jeers at human weaknesses and at others outbursts of desperate
+fury against current injustice and stupidity.</p>
+
+<p>After a short period of retirement from the capital he became the firm
+friend of Don Pedro T&eacute;llez Gir&oacute;n, Duke of Osuna, who had been named
+viceroy of Sicily in 1610. The uncommonly strong bond of friendship
+between these two men was founded upon mutual admiration of common
+qualities of fearlessness and red-blooded dash and spirit. In 1616
+Quevedo followed Osuna to Naples, where he was of great service to him
+as adviser and confidential emissary. These years of semi-official
+activity brought Quevedo into the very midst of the tangle of politics
+involving France, Italy, and Spain, and above all into the bog of
+bureaucratic corruption. Osuna's business in Madrid with the prime
+minister, Lerma, was managed by Quevedo. Now Lerma and his creatures
+were amenable to reason only when accompanied by bribes. Access to him
+was denied to all who brought no gifts. Quevedo's disgust at these
+methods was boundless, but there was no avoiding them.<a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> In
+recognition of his distinguished services Quevedo was made a knight of
+the order of St. James in 1618.<a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a></p>
+
+<p>In 1620 Osuna came to Madrid to answer the charge of having conspired to
+make himself independent viceroy of Naples. On his arrival he was thrown
+into prison, while Quevedo was held in custody at a distance from
+Madrid. Osuna died in 1624 before his guilt or innocence could be
+clearly proved. Quevedo afterward fought to clear his protector's name.
+At least he has secured his fame to posterity by the famous sonnet,</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Faltar pudo su patria al grande Osuna,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pero no a su defensa sus haza&ntilde;as;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Di&eacute;ronle muerte y carcel las Espa&ntilde;as,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">De quien el hizo esclava la Fortuna.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lloraron sus invidias una a una<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Con las propias naciones las extra&ntilde;as;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Su tumba son de Flandes las campa&ntilde;as,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Y su epitafio la sangrienta luna.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;</span>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>While Quevedo was enduring his enforced retirement Philip III died
+(March, 1621) and was succeeded by his son Philip IV. Uceda, the
+former's minister, was sent to follow his father Lerma into retirement
+and disgrace. Olivares, who had already won the confidence of young
+Philip, was installed as prime minister.</p>
+
+<p>Superficial reforms by which Olivares signalized his arrival momentarily
+led Quevedo to hope for better things. He wrote to celebrate the wisdom
+of the new minister and to assure him of his loyalty. He was soon at
+liberty to enjoy the fame and wholesome respect that his political
+prominence and keen satire had won him. His enemies were numerous, but
+they dared not attack him. Olivares himself courted Quevedo, but the
+latter, grown discreet for the moment, lent his ear and not his heart:
+he could not give himself to a minister who was already beginning to
+show his unwillingness to go to the root of the evils that were ruining
+the country.</p>
+
+<p>During these years of comparative political inactivity Quevedo had
+greater opportunity to study the vicious standards of living that stain
+this period of Spanish history. His writings are full of the scathing
+irony of his youth on the one hand, or of passionate religious fervor on
+the other. At other moments he indulges his tendency to seek refuge and
+comfort in the gentle stoicism of Seneca.</p>
+
+<p>His reckless slurs on women did not prevent his taking a wife in 1633.
+Perhaps Do&ntilde;a Esperanza de Arag&oacute;n possessed the qualities that Quevedo
+had flippantly demanded:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Noble, virtuous, and of good understanding, neither ugly nor
+beautiful; of these two extremes I prefer her beautiful, because it
+is better to have something to guard than some one to flee from.
+Neither rich nor poor, that she may not be buying me, nor I her. I
+desire her cheerful, for in our daily life we shall not lack for
+gloom. I wish her neither a young girl nor an old woman, cradle nor
+coffin, because I have forgotten my lullabies and not yet learned
+the prayers for the dying. I should thank God infinitely if she
+were deaf and a stammerer. But after all I shall esteem a woman
+such as I desire <i>y sabr&eacute; sufrir la que fuere como yo la merezco</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p>Their married life was cut short by the death of Do&ntilde;a Esperanza in the
+middle of the following year.</p>
+
+<p>There can be no doubt of Quevedo's thinly-veiled distrust of the
+administration of Olivares during these years, nor that he foresaw the
+impending catastrophe. The campaign which he was now carrying on against
+the favorite drew upon him not only the fear but the hatred of Olivares.
+Philip himself was blind to the state of the peninsula, thanks to
+Olivares' successful efforts to keep him amused.</p>
+
+<p>Finally one day early in December of 1639 Philip found in his napkin a
+petition in verse. It contained an eloquent description of the wretched
+condition of the country and a bitter arraignment of Olivares. Every
+circumstance pointed to Quevedo as the author. On the seventh of
+December he was arrested and his papers were confiscated. His
+disappearance was so sudden and complete that it was generally believed
+that he had been summarily done to death, but in reality he had been
+rushed to a dungeon in the monastery of San Marcos just outside the
+walls of the city of Le&oacute;n. Here he received treatment probably intended
+to cause his death, for he wrote to his friend Ad&aacute;n de la Parra:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Although at first I had a tower of this holy dwelling for my
+prison... within a short time I was brought to another a great deal
+more comfortless. There I remain. It is nothing more than an
+underground room, as damp as a spring, so dark that it is almost
+always night in it, and so cold that it never ceases to seem
+January. Clear enough! they that take pleasure in seeing me suffer
+do not wish to cut once for all that which they must finally cut,
+but they wish rather that the frequency of their blows may make my
+martyrdom more painful by its longer continuance; for thus their
+satisfaction gains in length.</p>
+
+<p>The tomb where I am buried alive is barely twenty-four feet long
+and nineteen wide. The vault and walls are in many places crumbling
+with dampness, and everything is so miserable that it appears
+rather the refuge of outlaw robbers than the prison of an honest
+man.</p>
+
+<p>To enter it one must pass through two doors equally strong. One is
+at the level of the monastery floor and the other at the level of
+my cell, after twenty-eight steps that have the look of a
+precipice. Both are always closed except at moments when, more by
+courtesy than through confidence, they leave one open but the other
+doubly guarded.</p>
+
+<p>In the middle of the room there stands a table where I am writing.
+It is large enough to permit of thirty or more books, with which my
+holy brothers keep me provided. At the right (to the south) I have
+my neither very comfortable nor extremely wretched bed.</p></div>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>The furniture of this miserable habitation consists of four chairs,
+a brasier, and a lamp. There is always noise enough, for the sound
+of my fetters drowns other greater ones, if not by its volume, by
+its pitifulness.... Not long ago I had two pairs, but one of the
+monks obtained permission to leave me with only one pair. Those
+that I am wearing now weigh about eight or nine pounds; the ones
+they took off were much heavier.... Such is the life to which I
+have been reduced by him who because I would not be his favorite is
+to-day my enemy.</p></div>
+
+<p>He endured his confinement with fortitude, sustained by the conviction
+that he had given his best for the cause of justice.</p>
+
+<p>The series of disasters that ultimately caused the fall of Olivares on
+January 23, 1643, has been discussed in another part of this
+introduction. Quevedo's release followed in June, but the iron had
+already entered his soul. A little more than two weeks before his death
+he wrote to his friend Francisco de Oviedo in a tone of profound
+discouragement:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>They write bad news from everywhere, desperate news; and the worst
+of it is that every one expected it. All this, Don Francisco, I
+know not if it be drawing to its close or if it be already ended.
+God knows, for there are many things which, though they seem to
+exist and to have being, are no longer more than a word and a form.</p></div>
+
+<p>He died at the age of sixty-five on September 8, 1645, at Villanueva de
+los Infantes.</p>
+
+<p>Even the bare enumeration of the more important events of Quevedo's life
+suggests his eager activity. This characteristic is the most striking
+feature of his style. An idea is no sooner suggested than it is left
+undeveloped to make way for another, set down often in a sentence which
+in its turn is without a satisfactory conclusion; or the expression of
+it is so condensed that we marvel at its retaining any lucidity. Many of
+his earlier writings are little more than a series of sketches that
+appear to have been written with feverish impatience but at the same
+time with great penetration. In his satirical verses there is a world of
+double meanings and allusions that leaves the reader's mind dizzy. The
+variety of his works is great. His facile creative brain passed from a
+ribald ballad or <i>letrilla</i> to a life of St. Francis de Sales or a
+treatise on Divine Providence. But through them all one can discern the
+motif of patriotism in the form of virulent satire against the vices
+that were gnawing at the life of the nation, or of a fervent plea for
+better standards in public and private life. When he felt the impotence
+of his rage or the fruitlessness of his pleas he turned earnestly and
+longingly to his cherished Seneca. But even in this frame of mind we
+cannot help feeling that there is something intensely passionate in his
+very patience. He gave his best years to the battle against national
+decay. Perhaps it is not too much to say that he died of disappointment
+and disgust.</p>
+
+<p>Quevedo's life, then, is by no means devoid of aspects that would appeal
+strongly to a romantic poet like Florentino Sanz. The most striking
+feature, of course, is his struggle with Olivares, followed by apparent
+defeat and imprisonment at San Marcos de Le&oacute;n, which in reality meant a
+moral victory in the face of persecution. This in itself was an ideal
+situation to call forth the heroics of a romantic poet. Furthermore,
+Quevedo could properly complain that he had been misunderstood. He was
+giving himself to a great cause while many of his contemporaries
+recognized only the superficial wit or the obscenity of his satire. His
+proud scorn of stupidity and all mediocrity was easily susceptible of a
+romantic twist into a lofty contempt for the miserable human creatures
+that drag out their darkened groveling lives. To make the play an
+unqualified success it was necessary that Quevedo succumb to the gentle
+passion, although in reality Quevedo's stern heart had little room for
+it. There can be no denying his cynical disbelief in feminine virtue.
+Associations of his own choice gave him little opportunity for illusions
+on that score. To be sure, he married at fifty-two, but circumstances
+lead us to doubt his happiness. Quevedo in love is thorny ground for
+any author. It is difficult to understand how Sanz succeeded in making
+this innovation as plausible as it is. It is his surrender to virtues so
+sterling as those of Margarita de Saboya that saves him from being
+ridiculous. Perhaps one may be pardoned for a furtive smile at the
+implication that Quevedo must depart to mope in his tower, while
+Margarita, herself a widow, pines in the convent.</p>
+
+<p>The name Quevedo has come to connote vaguely a personage of achievements
+as fabulous as those of Robin Hood. His undoubted skill as a swordsman
+has made him the hero of a thousand nocturnal escapades. His proverbial
+wit has forced upon him the responsibility for doubtful puns and
+innumerable bits of repartee. Unfortunately this is true to such a
+degree that to the uninitiated Quevedo is little more than a buffoon or
+a swaggering swordsman. It is easy to see that in his play Sanz intended
+to combat this mistaken conception. When it was first presented in 1848
+there existed no authoritative and accessible edition of Quevedo's
+works<a name="FNanchor_12_12" id="FNanchor_12_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> where he could be adequately studied and a fair estimate of
+him made. Such works of his as were spread broad-cast were usually the
+more objectionable excerpts from his less creditable works. They
+appeared in wretched volumes bearing a close resemblance to some that
+are published even now under such titles as "Quevedo, His Wittiest
+Prose, His Funniest Verses." Sanz felt the injustice deeply and set
+about its correction.</p>
+
+<p>Those who knew Sanz personally<a name="FNanchor_13_13" id="FNanchor_13_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a> have been left with the clear
+impression that through the medium of Quevedo, Sanz poured forth his
+invective against those that refused to recognize his own ability.</p>
+
+<p>There can be no doubt that the ultimate source, or rather the
+inspiration, of the play was the appeal to Sanz of the personality of
+Quevedo. There are other more tangible sources that may be briefly
+indicated. An important element in the plot is Queen Isabel's struggle
+to obtain from Olivares a certain letter which had been written in blood
+by the Conde de Villamediana and which would prove her fidelity to her
+husband, Philip. The existence of such a valuable document is pure
+invention. Villamediana's contemporaries are unanimous in saying that
+after being stabbed he died almost instantly and that his only words
+were "Esto es hecho." The romantic circumstances of Villamediana's
+attachment to the queen had been rehearsed to the public only a few
+years before the production of "Don Francisco de Quevedo." In 1841 the
+Duke of Rivas had published his four ballads, "Los Toros," "Las M&aacute;scaras
+y Ca&ntilde;as," "El Sarao," and "Final," under the title "El Conde de
+Villamediana." The affair then would be fresh in the minds of Sanz and
+his public. Don Juan de Tassis y Peralta, Count of Villamediana, was
+born in Lisbon in 1580, and was brought up in the court of Philip III.
+In 1614 he served in Italy, and the end of 1618 found him again in
+Madrid, where he lived magnificently, indulging freely his tastes for
+paintings, jewels, and horses. His satirical pen, attacking even the
+Duke of Lerma and the royal confessor, Fray Luis de Aliaga, was the
+cause of his exile from Madrid in 1618. At the accession of Philip IV he
+was recalled to Madrid and made a gentleman in waiting to the queen.
+Fallen ministers and the favorites of Philip III continued to be marks
+for his attacks. Olivares, the enemy of Villamediana and Do&ntilde;a Isabel,
+probably brought his libels to the attention of Philip. On August 21,
+1622, as Villamediana was driving through the Calle Mayor, a man halted
+his coach, and, as the count was descending, ran him through the heart.
+The gossips of Madrid attributed the murder to Olivares, giving as his
+motive his hatred and fear of Villamediana. Others laid the blame upon
+Philip, whose jealousy had been aroused, they said, by Villamediana's
+marked attentions to Do&ntilde;a Isabel.</p>
+
+<p>Further historical material for the play Sanz took from two arraignments
+of the administration of Olivares published by Valladares. The use of
+these sources by Sanz will be pointed out as briefly as possible. The
+circumstances of the imprisonment of Do&ntilde;a Margarita in Oca&ntilde;a, her flight
+to Madrid, and her subsequent treatment at the hands of Olivares are
+presented in detail in the "Ca&iacute;da de su Privanza y Muerte del
+Conde-Duque de Olivares, Gran Privado del Se&ntilde;or Rey Don Felipe IV, el
+Grande, con los motivos y no imaginada disposici&oacute;n de dicha Ca&iacute;da,"<a name="FNanchor_14_14" id="FNanchor_14_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a>
+and in the "Memorial de Don Francisco de Quevedo contra el Conde-Duque
+de Olivares. Dado al Rey Don Felipe Quarto."<a name="FNanchor_15_15" id="FNanchor_15_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a> According to the
+account in the latter she had received no reply to her complaints
+against the evil conduct of Vasconcellos and the suicidal policy of
+Olivares toward the Duke of Braganza.<a name="FNanchor_16_16" id="FNanchor_16_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a></p>
+
+<p>The interview between Olivares and the queen about the establishment of
+the young Prince of the Asturias in separate apartments with an
+independent household (Act II, scene ii) was evidently taken from the
+"Memorial" (p. 214) and from the "Ca&iacute;da" (p. 49). Says Philip, "And why,
+Conde-Duque, would he not be better off in the apartment that you
+yourself occupy? It is especially for the firstborn of the king, and is
+the one in which my father and myself were when we were princes." There
+also is mentioned the removal of the Count of Lemos, the Marquis of
+Castel Rodrigo, and Don Fernando de Borja from the palace.</p>
+
+<p>In Act III, scene ii, Margarita laments the loss of Spanish possessions
+through the ineptitude of Olivares:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4">por &eacute;l perdimos<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">a Esthin, Wiranzan y Dola,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">y a m&aacute;s las Islas Terceras,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">y el Ducado de Borgo&ntilde;a<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">y el Brasil y el Rosell&oacute;n,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">y Ormuz, Pernambuco y Hoa;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">y no ha mucho Portugal...<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The same catalogue of losses, even to the peculiar spelling of Hesdin
+and Bisanz&oacute;n (Besan&ccedil;on), appears in the "Ca&iacute;da."</p>
+
+<p>The intensely dramatic episode of the presentation of the golden cup to
+Olivares as a memorial from Philip is founded upon fact. Pellicer's
+<i>Avisos</i> contain even the detail of the note.<a name="FNanchor_17_17" id="FNanchor_17_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a> There too is the
+account of the ceremonial at the first presentation.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="VERSIFICATION" id="VERSIFICATION"></a>VERSIFICATION</h2>
+
+
+<p>The meters used by Sanz in Don Francisco de Quevedo are the following:</p>
+
+<p><b><i>Redondilla</i></b>, strophe of four eight-syllable or seven-syllable verses,
+riming <b><i>abba</i></b>.</p>
+
+<p><b><i>Romance</i></b>, eight-syllable or seven-syllable verses, indefinite in
+number, with even lines in assonance.</p>
+
+<p><b><i>Romance Heroico</i></b> or <b><i>Real</i></b>, romance of eleven-syllable verses.</p>
+
+<p><b><i>Quintilla</i></b>, strophe of five eight-syllable verses with but two rimes.
+Of the possible combinations we have only <b><i>abaab</i></b>.</p>
+
+<p><b><i>Cuarteto</i></b>, strophe of four eleven-syllable verses rimed <b><i>abba</i></b>.</p>
+
+<p><b><i>Cuarteta</i></b>, strophe of four eight-syllable verses rimed <b><i>abab</i></b>.</p>
+
+<p><b><i>Silva</i></b>, eleven-syllable and seven-syllable verses, mixed with wide
+liberty. There is wide liberty in the use of rime as well.</p>
+
+
+<h3>SCHEME OF METERS</h3>
+<table summary="meters" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
+<tr><td>Verses 1-124 </td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Redondillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 125-226</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;"> Romance</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 227-246</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;"> Quintillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 247-626</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;"> Redondillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 627-804</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;"> Romance</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 805-1276</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Redondillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 1277-1292</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Cuartetos</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 1293-1352</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Romance</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 1353-1368</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Redondillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 1369-1644</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Romance</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 1645-1768</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Redondillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 1769-1838</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Quintillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 1839-1866</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Romance</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 1867-1876</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Quintillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 1877-1912</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Romance</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 1913-2079</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Silva</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 2080-2323</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Redondillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 2324-2423</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Romance</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 2424-2643</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Redondillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 2644-2728</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Quintillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 2729-2806</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Romance&nbsp;Real</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 2807-2876</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Quintillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 2877-2880</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Cuarteta</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 2881-2910</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Redondillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 2911-2914</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Cuarteta</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 2915-2950</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Redondillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 2951-3020</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Quintillas</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Verses 3021-3060</td><td style="padding-left: 20%;">Redondillas</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DON_FRANCISCO_DE_QUEVEDO" id="DON_FRANCISCO_DE_QUEVEDO"></a>DON FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO</h2>
+
+<h3>DRAMA EN CUATRO ACTOS</h3>
+
+<p class="center">PERSONAJES</p>
+
+
+<table summary="personajes" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
+<tr><td>
+<span class="smcap">Don Francisco de Quevedo</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Margarita de Saboya</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">La Reina</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">El Conde-Duque de Olivares</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Do&ntilde;a In&eacute;s</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Don Juan de Castilla</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Don Pablo Menda&ntilde;a</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Medina</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">El Marqu&eacute;s de la Grana</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Un Capit&aacute;n</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Un Alcalde de Casa y Corte</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Un Ujier</span><br />
+</td></tr>
+</table>
+<table summary="note" border="0" cellpadding="10">
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">
+ [Transcriber's note: The line numbers of the drama which are in blue are linked to the notes pertaining
+to that line. The notes may be accessed by clicking on the line number.
+Clicking on the number of the note will return you to the line you were reading.]</td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">Ronda de capa, guardias, damas, meninas,
+caballeros, pajes, etc.</p>
+
+<p class="center">La escena en Madrid, a&ntilde;o de 1643</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="ACTO_I" id="ACTO_I"></a>ACTO I</h2>
+
+<p>Noche.&mdash;Una plazuela que se supone ser la de San Mart&iacute;n, conforme estaba
+en la &eacute;poca del drama. A la izquierda, en primer t&eacute;rmino, la fachada y
+grader&iacute;a del templo; en segundo, una calle, y otra en el fondo, que
+parte casi en la misma direcci&oacute;n. A la derecha, en segundo t&eacute;rmino, otra
+calle que cae en frente de la de la izquierda; en primero, una casa con
+puerta y balc&oacute;n practicables, y delante de la casa una imagen en su
+nicho sobre la pared, alumbrada por un farolillo, &uacute;nica luz que hay en
+la escena.</p>
+
+
+<p class="noind">
+<br /><br /><span class="escena">ESCENA PRIMERA</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>, <span class="smcap">Grana</span>, que al levantarse el tel&oacute;n aparecen mirando
+con curiosidad a varias damas, que a su espalda se dirigen hacia el
+templo, todas con el velo levantado. Con las damas se ver&aacute;n tambi&eacute;n
+algunos caballeros<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Todas sin manto!<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mejor.</span><br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+No dig&aacute;is eso, Menda&ntilde;a;<br />
+siempre el manto fu&eacute; en Espa&ntilde;a...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Tapa-enredijos de amor.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Si antes fueron permitidos
+<a name="line_5" id="line_5"></a><a href="#note_5"><span class="linenum">5</span></a><br />
+los velos...<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Sigan como antes</span><br />
+para bien de los amantes...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Para mal de los maridos.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Vos, por lo visto, don Pablo,<br />
+dado sois al matrimonio. <a name="line_10" id="line_10"></a><span class="linenum">10</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+No dir&eacute; que no.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Demonio!</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Ni dir&eacute; que s&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">&iexcl;Pues diablo!...</span><br />
+Dir&eacute;is... &iexcl;qu&eacute; s&eacute; yo!<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Quien forme</span><br />
+otros juicios mucho yerra;<br />
+que al fin y al cabo, en la tierra <a name="line_15" id="line_15"></a><span class="linenum">15</span><br />
+todo es... seg&uacute;n y conforme.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Ah! ya...<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">No os entiendo a&uacute;n.</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Todo en el mundo es mejor.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Todo, dec&iacute;s?<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">S&iacute;, se&ntilde;or;</span><br />
+todo, conforme y seg&uacute;n. <a name="line_20" id="line_20"></a><span class="linenum">20</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+De lo que dec&iacute;s infiero...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Que es mejor vivir casado.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Mas yo en limpio habr&eacute; sacado...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Que es mejor vivir soltero.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Gran sentencia!<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Gran sandez!
+</span><a name="line_25" id="line_25"></a><span class="linenum">25</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Tal raz&oacute;n me deja mudo.<br />
+Siendo viudo...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Ah! para el viudo</span><br />
+lo mejor es la viudez.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA (ri&eacute;ndose)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Profunda filosof&iacute;a!...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Por profunda y verdadera <a name="line_30" id="line_30"></a><span class="linenum">30</span><br />
+es mejor que otra cualquiera.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Si la cede en mejor&iacute;a.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Es verdad!<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ten&eacute;is raz&oacute;n.</span><br />
+&iexcl;Voto a veinticinco santos!...<br />
+Pero volviendo a los mantos, <a name="line_35" id="line_35"></a><a href="#note_35"><span class="linenum">35</span></a><br />
+que es aqu&iacute; nuestra cuesti&oacute;n...<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Nadie a comprenderlo acierta.<br />
+Cual si fuesen a sus bodas,<br />
+andan hoy las damas todas<br />
+con la cara descubierta. <a name="line_40" id="line_40"></a><span class="linenum">40</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Es que el rey lo manda as&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Mas &iquest;por qu&eacute; lo manda el rey?<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Yo no interpreto su ley.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Corren voces por ah&iacute;...<br />
+Lo dir&eacute; pronto y clarito: <a name="line_45" id="line_45"></a><a href="#note_45"><span class="linenum">45</span></a><br />
+esa injusta ley...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;Prudencia!</span><br />
+Su majestad...<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Su excelencia...</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Di&oacute;la el rey...<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">No; el favorito.</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Es lo propio, seg&uacute;n creo.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;... Olivares...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Gran se&ntilde;or!</span><a name="line_50" id="line_50"></a><span class="linenum">50</span><br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Pues, os protege...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mejor.</span><br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Eso s&iacute; que es mejoreo.<br />
+Pero, volviendo a Olivares,<br />
+&eacute;l, que al soberano enga&ntilde;a,<br />
+le arranc&oacute; ley tan extra&ntilde;a <a name="line_55" id="line_55"></a><span class="linenum">55</span><br />
+por fines particulares.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Es un falso testimonio.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+No; tan rid&iacute;cula ley...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Di&oacute;la en servicio del rey.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+O en servicio del demonio. <a name="line_60" id="line_60"></a><span class="linenum">60</span><br />
+No conspiran las tapadas;<br />
+y es esa ley singular.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (con calor)<br />
+<br />
+La mejor... para evitar<br />
+enredos y cuchilladas.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA (col&eacute;rico)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Vive Dios!...<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA II</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos, <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (entrando por la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Paz, caballeros; </span><a name="line_65" id="line_65"></a><a href="#note_65"><span class="linenum">65</span></a><br />
+no haya duelo ni quebranto,<br />
+ni en noche de Jueves Santo<br />
+se ensangrienten los aceros.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Noble cisne de Madrid!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Cisne pues!... El de Guzm&aacute;n <a name="line_70" id="line_70"></a><a href="#note_70"><span class="linenum">70</span></a><br />
+dice que soy alcot&aacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh, venid ac&aacute;, venid!<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; hay de nuevo por la corte?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Por Madrid?<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">No; por palacio.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+No s&eacute; nada.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">&iexcl;Qu&eacute; rehacio!</span><a name="line_75" id="line_75"></a><span class="linenum">75</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Nada que a nadie le importe;<br />
+pero cuando aqu&iacute; llegu&eacute;,<br />
+percib&iacute; en frases cortadas<br />
+no s&eacute; qu&eacute; de cuchilladas...<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Conque o&iacute;steis?...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No s&eacute; qu&eacute;.</span><a name="line_80" id="line_80"></a><span class="linenum">80</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Eran Castilla y Menda&ntilde;a<br />
+disputando con calor<br />
+que esa ley...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es la mejor.</span><br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+La peor que hubo en Espa&ntilde;a.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo! &iquest;Habl&aacute;is sobre los mantos? <a name="line_85" id="line_85"></a><span class="linenum">85</span><br />
+Eso es andar por las ramas.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Tal rigor contra las damas...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Nos descubre sus encantos.<br />
+No os par&eacute;is en frioleras.<br />
+Tal negocio no es de rey <a name="line_90" id="line_90"></a><span class="linenum">90</span><br />
+ni de ministro... Esa ley<br />
+es cuesti&oacute;n de costureras.<br />
+Leyes de tan ruin val&iacute;a<br />
+no son de gobierno, a fe;<br />
+son leyes no m&aacute;s...<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;De qu&eacute;?</span><a name="line_95" id="line_95"></a><span class="linenum">95</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Leyes... de guardarrop&iacute;a.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Bien dicho, bien!... Pero ya<br />
+ruido en el templo se siente.<br />
+Las tinieblas...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ciertamente.</span><br />
+Vamos, se&ntilde;ores, all&aacute;. <a name="line_100" id="line_100"></a><a href="#note_100"><span class="linenum">100</span></a><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Vamos, pues.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA (aparte)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Quevedo, o&iacute;d.</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA III</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> y <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>, que le detiene cuando se dirig&iacute;a al templo<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; es lo que tanto os agita?<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh! La infanta Margarita<br />
+vino ayer tarde a Madrid.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pero entonces &iquest;d&oacute;nde est&aacute;? <a name="line_105" id="line_105"></a><span class="linenum">105</span><br />
+En palacio no.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Lo s&eacute;.</span><br />
+Donde Olivares est&eacute;<br />
+nunca la infanta cabr&aacute;.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Mas &iquest;qui&eacute;n vino en su compa&ntilde;a?<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Sola de Oca&ntilde;a se huy&oacute;; <a name="line_110" id="line_110"></a><a href="#note_110"><span class="linenum">110</span></a><br />
+&iquest;y sab&eacute;is por qu&eacute;?... Por no<br />
+morirse de hambre en Oca&ntilde;a.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Es imposible.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Por Cristo</span><br />
+yo os juro que vino ayer,<br />
+y que entr&oacute; al anochecer, <a name="line_115" id="line_115"></a><span class="linenum">115</span><br />
+y que mis ojos la han visto.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Equivocaci&oacute;n, don Juan.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Yo s&eacute; bien que se halla aqu&iacute;;<br />
+pero tengo para m&iacute;<br />
+que otros tambi&eacute;n lo sabr&aacute;n. <a name="line_120" id="line_120"></a><span class="linenum">120</span><br />
+Olivares vive alerta;<br />
+teme que aborten sus tramas...<br />
+Tal vez... &iquest;Qui&eacute;n sabe?... Hoy las damas<br />
+van con la faz descubierta. (Entra en el templo)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA IV</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Ella es, sin duda... Castilla <a name="line_125" id="line_125"></a><span class="linenum">125</span><br />
+dice que se huy&oacute; de Oca&ntilde;a...<br />
+Cierto: ayer entr&oacute; en la corte,<br />
+y hoy me dirige esta carta.<br />
+Di&oacute;mela con tal misterio<br />
+aquel hombre de la capa... <a name="line_130" id="line_130"></a><a href="#note_130"><span class="linenum">130</span></a><br />
+Ni se descubri&oacute; el embozo<br />
+ni me dijo una palabra.<br />
+De ella es, sin duda... Imposible...<br />
+No; la duquesa de Mantua,<br />
+del gran Felipe Segundo <a name="line_135" id="line_135"></a><a href="#note_135"><span class="linenum">135</span></a><br />
+nieta, del rey prima hermana,<br />
+la que en Portugal virreina<br />
+fu&eacute; tambi&eacute;n; la ilustre infanta<br />
+Margarita de Saboya...<br />
+No, no puede ser la dama <a name="line_140" id="line_140"></a><span class="linenum">140</span><br />
+que me escribe... Sin embargo,<br />
+ella es hoy bien desgraciada...<br />
+Y aun as&iacute; yo... &iquest;qu&eacute; podr&iacute;a<br />
+para endulzar su desgracia?<br />
+El pensarlo fu&eacute; quimera... <a name="line_145" id="line_145"></a><span class="linenum">145</span><br />
+Mas &iquest;de qui&eacute;n es esta carta?<br />
+&iquest;De qui&eacute;n?... Cuanto m&aacute;s la leo<br />
+menos mi mente lo alcanza. (Leyendo a la luz del farol)<br />
+<br />
+&laquo;Una dama ilustre a quien vos conoc&eacute;is y que os estima en mucho, ha
+menester hablaros esta misma noche. Estad en San Mart&iacute;n y la ver&eacute;is
+al fin de las tinieblas. A pesar de la prohibici&oacute;n de los velos ir&aacute;
+rebozada y encubierta, porque le importa no ser de nadie conocida;
+y porque vos la conozc&aacute;is su nombre os dir&aacute; ella misma. Adi&oacute;s.&raquo;
+
+
+<br />
+(Durante la lectura de la carta <span class="smcap">Medina</span> se asoma al balc&oacute;n, y despu&eacute;s de<br />
+observar a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, desaparece)<br />
+<br />
+Su nombre... su nombre... Cierto...<br />
+Margarita... S&iacute;, la infanta... <a name="line_150" id="line_150"></a><a href="#note_150"><span class="linenum">150</span></a><br />
+&iexcl;Ella en Madrid! &iexcl;Oh! Castilla<br />
+dice que se huy&oacute; de Oca&ntilde;a...<br />
+S&iacute;... ya sabr&aacute; el conde-duque<br />
+su venida... y para hallarla<br />
+mand&oacute; que desde hoy sin velo <a name="line_155" id="line_155"></a><span class="linenum">155</span><br />
+anden por Madrid las damas.<br />
+&iexcl;Cu&aacute;nto la aborrece ese hombre!... (Mira la carta)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA V</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> y <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, que sale del templo<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Quevedo... Mas &iexcl;calla, calla!<br />
+&iquest;Compon&eacute;is versos? &iexcl;Por vida!...<br />
+Vamos, ya entiendo... &iexcl;Una s&aacute;tira!<a name="line_160" id="line_160"></a><span class="linenum">160</span><br />
+&iexcl;Ah mejor, mejor!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iexcl;Imb&eacute;cil!)</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Llenos estar&aacute;n de gracia<br />
+picante... Vamos, leedme.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;No me buscabais, Menda&ntilde;a?<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Ciertamente; las tinieblas <a name="line_165" id="line_165"></a><span class="linenum">165</span><br />
+dieron principio, y La Grana,<br />
+Castilla y dem&aacute;s amigos,<br />
+notando vuestra tardanza...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Vamos, pues.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">S&iacute;; mas primero</span><br />
+leedme...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Ved que me aguardan.</span><a name="line_170" id="line_170"></a><span class="linenum">170</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Bien; pero despu&eacute;s...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Despu&eacute;s...</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Dirigi&eacute;ndose al templo y con convicci&oacute;n)</span><br />
+(Es la duquesa de Mantua.)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA VI</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, que ha estado en la esquina de la derecha y con el embozo a la
+cara durante la escena anterior; despu&eacute;s <span class="smcap">Medina</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Gracias a Dios que me dejan
+libre un momento la plaza.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Llamando a la casa de la derecha)</span><br />
+&iexcl;Medina!<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA (saliendo)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">&iquest;Se&ntilde;or?</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">La hora</span><a name="line_175" id="line_175"></a><span class="linenum">175</span><br />
+llega.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">La espero con ansia.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Los has conocido?<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">A todos.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; hablaron?<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Con la distancia</span><br />
+no he conseguido cazarles<br />
+ni siquiera una palabra. <a name="line_180" id="line_180"></a><span class="linenum">180</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Bien, poco importa. Quevedo...<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Leyendo estuvo la carta.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Ser&aacute; la misma?<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Sin duda.</span><br />
+No habr&aacute; conocido nada.<br />
+Luego que vos la le&iacute;steis, <a name="line_185" id="line_185"></a><span class="linenum">185</span><br />
+volv&iacute; de nuevo a cerrarla,<br />
+y al punto se la entregaron<br />
+como si estuviese intacta.<br />
+&iexcl;Oh! Con tan buenos esp&iacute;as...<br />
+no hay que interceptar las cartas,<a name="line_190" id="line_190"></a><span class="linenum">190</span><br />
+cuando &eacute;l mismo que las lleva<br />
+se encarga de interceptarlas.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Est&aacute; bien. Cuando del templo<br />
+la dama del manto salga...<br />
+ya lo sabes.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Ciertamente.</span><a name="line_195" id="line_195"></a><span class="linenum">195</span><br />
+Mas si alguno la acompa&ntilde;a...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+La sigues y...<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ya, ya entiendo:</span><br />
+en cualquier calle excusada...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Discreci&oacute;n y mano firme.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Pod&eacute;is rezar por su alma. <a name="line_200" id="line_200"></a><a href="#note_200"><span class="linenum">200</span></a><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Golpe seguro.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7.5em;">Seguro</span><br />
+lo llev&oacute; Villamediana.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pero aun pudo en su agon&iacute;a<br />
+escribir cuatro palabras<br />
+con su propia sangre, y pudo <a name="line_205" id="line_205"></a><span class="linenum">205</span><br />
+perdernos.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Pero a Dios gracias,</span><br />
+el escrito a vuestras manos<br />
+fu&eacute; derecho y...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No fu&eacute; mala</span><br />
+suerte el que yo aquella noche<br />
+como un alcalde rondara <a name="line_210" id="line_210"></a><span class="linenum">210</span><br />
+cuando se hall&oacute; su cad&aacute;ver<br />
+tendido junto a las tapias,<br />
+cerrando el papel sangriento<br />
+entre sus manos crispadas.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Pero nunca me hab&eacute;is dicho <a name="line_215" id="line_215"></a><span class="linenum">215</span><br />
+lo que en &eacute;l Villamediana<br />
+escribi&oacute; al morir.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Medina,</span><br />
+eso ya no importa nada;<br />
+lo que importa es que esta noche<br />
+no escriba tambi&eacute;n la dama... <a name="line_220" id="line_220"></a><span class="linenum">220</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+No dir&aacute;: &iexcl;Jes&uacute;s!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Conf&iacute;o...</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Pod&eacute;is tener confianza.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pues a palacio en seguida;<br />
+mira que aguardo con ansia.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Grande es, sin duda, el servicio... <a name="line_225" id="line_225"></a><span class="linenum">225</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+No ser&aacute; menor la paga.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">
+
+(<span class="smcap">Medina</span>
+
+
+a una se&ntilde;a de <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> saluda</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">y entra en la casa)</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA VII</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Dura pensi&oacute;n del poder!...<br />
+&iexcl;Oh! luchar... &iexcl;siempre luchar!<br />
+&iexcl;Enemigos por doquier!...<br />
+Mas no es f&aacute;cil sorprender <a name="line_230" id="line_230"></a><span class="linenum">230</span><br />
+a quien se empe&ntilde;a en velar.<br />
+T&uacute;, con tu ardid, est&aacute;s hoy,<br />
+noble duquesa, en Madrid;<br />
+pero yo tambi&eacute;n estoy,<br />
+y han de luchar, por quien soy, <a name="line_235" id="line_235"></a><span class="linenum">235</span><br />
+el ardid contra el ardid.<br />
+Quisiste, al dejar a Oca&ntilde;a,<br />
+decir al rey, por mi mal:<br />
+&laquo;Miente Olivares, te enga&ntilde;a:<br />
+por su culpa el rey de Espa&ntilde;a <a name="line_240" id="line_240"></a><span class="linenum">240</span><br />
+no es ya rey de Portugal.&raquo;<br />
+&iexcl;D&eacute;bil, incauta mujer!...<br />
+Vanos tus intentos son,<br />
+y muy pronto hemos de ver<br />
+si me arrancas el poder <a name="line_245" id="line_245"></a><span class="linenum">245</span><br />
+o te arranco el coraz&oacute;n. (Se dirige al fondo)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA VIII</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> por el fondo con el velo echado<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Ah!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Se&ntilde;ora, perdonad.(Dej&aacute;ndola paso)</span><br />
+(&iquest;Con velo?... Es ella.)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Id con Dios.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Yo me holgara de ir con vos.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Pl&aacute;ceme la soledad. <a name="line_250" id="line_250"></a><span class="linenum">250</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+D&eacute;beos ser muy halag&uuml;e&ntilde;a<br />
+esa soledad, se&ntilde;ora,<br />
+cuando por aqu&iacute; a tal hora<br />
+vais sin rodrig&oacute;n ni due&ntilde;a.<br />
+Mas, ya entiendo: alguna cita... <a name="line_255" id="line_255"></a><span class="linenum">255</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Adi&oacute;s, que se me hace tarde.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Un momento.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Dios os guarde.(Se dirige al templo)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (despu&eacute;s de un momento)<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Oh, qu&eacute; idea!) &iexcl;Margarita!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Margarita</span> que empieza a subir las gradas, vuelve al punto la cabeza)</span><br />
+Bien; acert&eacute; vuestro nombre.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Gran Dios!)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iquest;Vais a San Mart&iacute;n?</span><a name="line_260" id="line_260"></a><span class="linenum">260</span><br />
+Ya dan las tinieblas fin.<br />
+No vay&aacute;is.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iquest;Qui&eacute;n es este hombre?)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Os hab&eacute;is quedado muda?<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n sois vos?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Nada os importe:</span><br />
+soy... un cualquiera de la corte. <a name="line_265" id="line_265"></a><a href="#note_265"><span class="linenum">265</span></a><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Conoc&eacute;is?...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;, a cierta viuda,</span><br />
+conocida en toda Espa&ntilde;a,<br />
+que en secreto...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Proseguid.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Vino ayer tarde a Madrid.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Desde d&oacute;nde?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Desde Oca&ntilde;a.</span><a name="line_270" id="line_270"></a><span class="linenum">270</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Gran Dios! &iexcl;Soy perdida!)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iexcl;Oh, cu&aacute;nto,</span><br />
+cu&aacute;nto con su angustia gozo!)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Echad abajo el embozo.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Cuando ech&eacute;is atr&aacute;s el manto.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y os atrev&eacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Damas mil</span><a name="line_275" id="line_275"></a><span class="linenum">275</span><br />
+van hoy sin velo; es de ley:<br />
+ved que lo ha mandado el rey.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Sois, por ventura, alguacil?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Soy, se&ntilde;ora, un poco m&aacute;s:<br />
+un hombre que ve y observa, <a name="line_280" id="line_280"></a><span class="linenum">280</span><br />
+que siente crecer la hierba;<br />
+soy...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">&iexcl;El mismo Satan&aacute;s!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (ri&eacute;ndose)<br />
+<br />
+Bien dec&iacute;s.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&Eacute;l es... &iexcl;Ay Dios!</span><br />
+&iexcl;Qui&eacute;n otro pudiera... qui&eacute;n!)<br />
+Hidalgo, os conozco bien. <a name="line_285" id="line_285"></a><span class="linenum">285</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Bien os conozco yo a vos.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Causa sois de mis pesares.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Mi nombre...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Nombre maldito!</span><br />
+Os llam&aacute;is... el favorito. (Con desprecio)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (desembaraz&aacute;ndose)<br />
+<br />
+Conde-duque de Olivares. <a name="line_290" id="line_290"></a><span class="linenum">290</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;No me enga&ntilde;&eacute;!... &iexcl;Siempre ese hombre!)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Algo suspensa os dej&oacute;<br />
+mi nombre...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(Me insulta. &iexcl;Oh!...)</span><br />
+Yo desprecio vuestro nombre.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Nadie le humill&oacute; en el mundo; <a name="line_295" id="line_295"></a><span class="linenum">295</span><br />
+nombre es que Espa&ntilde;a respeta...<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n no teme?...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (descubri&eacute;ndose con arrogancia)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Yo... la nieta</span><br />
+del gran Felipe Segundo.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (salud&aacute;ndola con iron&iacute;a)<br />
+<br />
+Dama de la sangre real<br />
+que altas prendas atesora; <a name="line_300" id="line_300"></a><a href="#note_300"><span class="linenum">300</span></a><br />
+por el rey gobernadora<br />
+del reino de Portugal.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Alg&uacute;n d&iacute;a... Ya hace meses (Con amargura)<br />
+que el rey, mi primo y se&ntilde;or,<br />
+no tiene gobernador <a name="line_305" id="line_305"></a><span class="linenum">305</span><br />
+en dominios portugueses.<br />
+All&iacute; fuimos soberanos;<br />
+mas gracias a vos, despu&eacute;s<br />
+ese reino portugu&eacute;s<br />
+se nos fu&eacute; de entre las manos. <a name="line_310" id="line_310"></a><span class="linenum">310</span><br />
+&iexcl;Y por eso Margarita<br />
+sufre tantas penas hoy!...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (como esquivando la conversaci&oacute;n)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Vais al templo?<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Al templo voy...</span><br />
+Tengo en el templo una cita.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;En el mismo templo?... A fe... <a name="line_315" id="line_315"></a><span class="linenum">315</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Fuera de casa o del templo<br />
+mal segura me contemplo,<br />
+y adivinad vos por qu&eacute;.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(Si yo pudiese obligarla<br />
+a volverse desde aqu&iacute; <a name="line_320" id="line_320"></a><span class="linenum">320</span><br />
+a Oca&ntilde;a otra vez... S&iacute;, s&iacute;...<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; inter&eacute;s tengo en matarla?)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iquest;Qu&eacute; estar&aacute; tramando ahora?)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(As&iacute; triunfo y no asesino.)<br />
+Hab&eacute;is hecho un desatino; <a name="line_325" id="line_325"></a><span class="linenum">325</span><br />
+volved a Oca&ntilde;a, se&ntilde;ora.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Conde-duque, delir&aacute;is.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Yo por vuestro bien lo anhelo.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Por mi bien! &iquest;No hay en el cielo<br />
+rayos de Dios?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Qu&eacute; intent&aacute;is?</span><a name="line_330" id="line_330"></a><span class="linenum">330</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Ver al rey de cualquier modo.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+No lo lograr&eacute;is acaso.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n ha de cerrarme el paso?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Yo, que aqu&iacute; lo puedo todo.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Todo!... Por eso, por eso <a name="line_335" id="line_335"></a><a href="#note_335"><span class="linenum">335</span></a><br />
+tanto en Oca&ntilde;a he sufrido,<br />
+que soportar no he podido<br />
+de mi desventura el peso.<br />
+Ved estos p&aacute;rpados rojos<br />
+de llorar... &iquest;Os dan espanto?... <a name="line_340" id="line_340"></a><span class="linenum">340</span><br />
+Es que han vertido por llanto<br />
+gotas de sangre mis ojos.<br />
+Sola en Oca&ntilde;a, &iexcl;ay de m&iacute;!<br />
+falt&oacute;me en tan negro af&aacute;n<br />
+hasta un pedazo de pan... <a name="line_345" id="line_345"></a><span class="linenum">345</span><br />
+&iexcl;Oh! &iexcl;tuve hambre!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Vos!</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;, s&iacute;,</span><br />
+hombre sin Dios y sin ley,<br />
+&iexcl;fu&iacute; de convento en convento<br />
+mendigando mi sustento!...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Vos!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">&iexcl;Yo!... La prima del rey.</span><a name="line_350" id="line_350"></a><span class="linenum">350</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Yo ignoraba... De hoy en m&aacute;s<br />
+os juro... Tomad un coche...<br />
+Idos a Oca&ntilde;a esta noche...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+A palacio ir&eacute; quiz&aacute;s.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Duquesa, volved a Oca&ntilde;a; <a name="line_355" id="line_355"></a><span class="linenum">355</span><br />
+ya entrar&eacute;is, cuando haya espacio,<br />
+como entrar debe en palacio<br />
+toda una infanta de Espa&ntilde;a.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Si no me abandona Dios,<br />
+entrar&eacute; ma&ntilde;ana... &iexcl;Oh! s&iacute;... <a name="line_360" id="line_360"></a><span class="linenum">360</span><br />
+Pronto el rey sabr&aacute; por m&iacute;...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Nada el rey sabr&aacute; por vos.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Sabr&aacute; por culpa de qui&eacute;n<br />
+ya no es suyo el Portugal.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Vos... le gobernasteis mal... <a name="line_365" id="line_365"></a><span class="linenum">365</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Y vos... le perdisteis bien.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pero...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Basta ya. Cobarde</span><br />
+sois, aunque diestro adalid.<br />
+Hoy comienza nuestra lid...<br />
+&iexcl;Nunca para el bien fu&eacute; tarde! <a name="line_370" id="line_370"></a><span class="linenum">370</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Soy poderoso enemigo...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+No siempre triunf&oacute; el poder.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Sois una d&eacute;bil mujer.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Dios combatir&aacute; conmigo!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Es muy desigual el duelo. <a name="line_375" id="line_375"></a><span class="linenum">375</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (con orgullo)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Desigual?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Yo en esta guerra</span><br />
+soy el poder de la tierra.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Yo la venganza del cielo.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Con solemnidad y dirigi&eacute;ndose al templo)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pues que nadie os acompa&ntilde;a,<br />
+mi mano aceptad ahora. <a name="line_380" id="line_380"></a><span class="linenum">380</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Sois... muy gal&aacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Soy, se&ntilde;ora,</span><br />
+espa&ntilde;ol.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Jud&aacute;s de Espa&ntilde;a.(Subiendo)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (queriendo asirla de la mano)<br />
+<br />
+Si no lo hab&eacute;is por enojo,<br />
+mi mano hasta arriba...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (desviando la mano con altivez y desprecio)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Ah, no!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n ha de serviros?<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA IX</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (apareciendo entre las columnas y dando la mano a <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Yo.</span><a name="line_385" id="line_385"></a><span class="linenum">385</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Gracias.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">(&Eacute;l es... &iexcl;Qu&eacute; sonrojo!)</span><br />
+Con gusto la mano os dan,<br />
+don Francisco de Quevedo.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Margarita</span> sube las gradas. El conde-duque permanece abajo)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Decir lo propio no puedo<br />
+yo a don Gaspar de Guzm&aacute;n. <a name="line_390" id="line_390"></a><span class="linenum">390</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Jam&aacute;s compet&iacute; con vos:<br />
+vuestro ingenio y vuestra fama...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Ved que me espera esta dama.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+No os detengo.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Adi&oacute;s.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Adi&oacute;s.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (en el atrio)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; anhel&aacute;is en tanto apuro? <a name="line_395" id="line_395"></a><span class="linenum">395</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Ver al rey.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No encuentro modo...</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Mas le ver&eacute;is con todo;</span><br />
+por mi salvaci&oacute;n lo juro.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Cond&uacute;cela al interior del templo)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Quien no convence asesina.<br />
+No quiso a Oca&ntilde;a volver... <a name="line_400" id="line_400"></a><span class="linenum">400</span><br />
+Hice cuanto pude hacer...<br />
+lo dem&aacute;s lo har&aacute; Medina.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA X</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Olivares</span> y <span class="smcap">Medina</span>, que aparece a la puerta de la casa al
+tiempo que aqu&eacute;l se dirige a paso largo a la calle del fondo<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA (en voz baja)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Conde-duque?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;Y bien!</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Lo siento;</span><br />
+mas no la mato, se&ntilde;or.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Pues no dijisteis, traidor?... <a name="line_405" id="line_405"></a><span class="linenum">405</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+De lo dicho me arrepiento.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y qu&eacute; causa?...<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No os asombre.</span><br />
+Cuanto hablasteis escuch&eacute;,<br />
+de la dama el nombre s&eacute;,<br />
+y est&aacute; muy alto su nombre. <a name="line_410" id="line_410"></a><span class="linenum">410</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; te importa?<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Friolera!</span><br />
+Su nombre, pardiez, me espanta;<br />
+no se asesina a una infanta<br />
+como a una mujer cualquiera.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Ya comprendo. Cosa es clara: <a name="line_415" id="line_415"></a><span class="linenum">415</span><br />
+si es que ha de ser bien vendida,<br />
+cuanto m&aacute;s valga una vida<br />
+debe venderse m&aacute;s cara....<br />
+Golpes das a mi tesoro<br />
+que han de agotarle quiz&aacute;s; <a name="line_420" id="line_420"></a><span class="linenum">420</span><br />
+pero, en fin, pues quieres m&aacute;s<br />
+oro... te dar&eacute; m&aacute;s oro.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+No, no es oro lo que quiero.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+De escucharte me confundo.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Es que... no todo en el mundo <a name="line_425" id="line_425"></a><span class="linenum">425</span><br />
+se paga con el dinero.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Tambi&eacute;n te colm&eacute; de honores:<br />
+en palacio, como iguales,<br />
+te hablan damas principales<br />
+y principales se&ntilde;ores. <a name="line_430" id="line_430"></a><a href="#note_430"><span class="linenum">430</span></a><br />
+Mira bien si bien te pago:<br />
+del polvo te alc&eacute; a la altura,<br />
+y hoy tu condici&oacute;n obscura<br />
+tapa esa cruz de Santiago.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Se&ntilde;alando la capa de <span class="smcap">Medina</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+No niego vuestra largueza. <a name="line_435" id="line_435"></a><span class="linenum">435</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pues a servirme... Es tu oficio.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Es que exig&iacute;s un servicio<br />
+en que arriesgo la cabeza.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Por mi vida!... Esa traici&oacute;n...<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Os equivoc&aacute;is, a fe, <a name="line_440" id="line_440"></a><span class="linenum">440</span><br />
+yo a la infanta matar&eacute;...<br />
+mas con una condici&oacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Condici&oacute;n?... Nunca recibo...<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Sin ella... &iexcl;por Lucifer,<br />
+que no mato a esa mujer, <a name="line_445" id="line_445"></a><span class="linenum">445</span><br />
+aunque me desuellen vivo!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(El infierno se desata<br />
+contra m&iacute; esta noche.)<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">En fin...</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Alma cobarde y ruin!)<br />
+Di tu condici&oacute;n... y mata. <a name="line_450" id="line_450"></a><span class="linenum">450</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Para mi seguridad<br />
+he escrito arriba un papel:<br />
+falta vuestra firma en &eacute;l;<br />
+&eacute;ste es el papel, firmad.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; dice?<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA (acerc&aacute;ndose al farol)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">O&iacute;d.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iexcl;Negra suerte!)</span><a name="line_455" id="line_455"></a><span class="linenum">455</span><br />
+Ya la tardanza me irrita.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA (leyendo)<br />
+<br />
+&laquo;A la infanta Margarita<br />
+dar&aacute;s hoy mismo la muerte.&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Vive Dios!<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Firmad y mato.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Maldito seas, am&eacute;n!) <a name="line_460" id="line_460"></a><span class="linenum">460</span><br />
+&iexcl;Nunca!... A ese precio...<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Est&aacute; bien;</span><br />
+otro lo har&aacute; m&aacute;s barato.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Traidor... &iquest;Te vas?...<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ya mi haza&ntilde;a</span><br />
+es in&uacute;til y me voy.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Oh! &iexcl;Si ella no muere hoy <a name="line_465" id="line_465"></a><span class="linenum">465</span><br />
+todo lo pierdo ma&ntilde;ana!...)<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Resolved.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Oye, Medina.</span><br />
+(Voy a perder el juicio.)<br />
+Aunque es duro el sacrificio...<br />
+(&iexcl;Fuerza es conjurar mi ruina!) <a name="line_470" id="line_470"></a><span class="linenum">470</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Pues firmad.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Dame el papel.(D&aacute;selo <span class="smcap">Medina</span>)</span><br />
+(&iexcl;Oh, su contacto me abrasa!)<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Entrad, pues, en esta casa.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(No hay medio... &iexcl;Trance cruel!)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Dirigi&eacute;ndose a la casa)</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Luz os tengo en el portal <a name="line_475" id="line_475"></a><span class="linenum">475</span><br />
+y recado de escribir:<br />
+conque...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (entra)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">(&iexcl;Tal mengua sufrir!)</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA (despu&eacute;s de una pausa)<br />
+<br />
+No va el asunto muy mal.<br />
+Conde-duque, ello por ello;<br />
+ya somos qui&eacute;n para qui&eacute;n. <a name="line_480" id="line_480"></a><span class="linenum">480</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Olivares</span> sale y alarga el papel a <span class="smcap">Medina</span>)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Acerc&aacute;ndose al farol y leyendo)</span><br />
+&laquo;Olivares&raquo;; est&aacute; bien.<br />
+(Tiene su firma y su sello.)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Cuida bien que no se borre.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Pues ya que os hice firmar...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Falta s&oacute;lo...<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Pues matar;</span><a name="line_485" id="line_485"></a><span class="linenum">485</span><br />
+y eso de mi cuenta corre.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;En parte segura!<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Oh, s&iacute;!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Todo el pu&ntilde;al!<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Eso es.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;L&iacute;brame de ella! (March&aacute;ndose)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(Despu&eacute;s...</span><br />
+yo me librar&eacute; de ti.) <a name="line_490" id="line_490"></a><span class="linenum">490</span><br />
+<br />
+(Vase por la calle del fondo)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA XI</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Medina</span>; despu&eacute;s <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Ya te tengo bien seguro:<br />
+partes el crimen conmigo...<br />
+Partir&eacute; el poder contigo,<br />
+por mi pu&ntilde;al te lo juro.<br />
+Nuestra horrible comuni&oacute;n <a name="line_495" id="line_495"></a><span class="linenum">495</span><br />
+hoy con sangre he de sellar...<br />
+Quiero mi ambici&oacute;n saciar,<br />
+y alas diste a mi ambici&oacute;n.<br />
+Pues bien... All&iacute; se ve un bulto.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Mirando al templo)</span><br />
+Ya sin duda en San Mart&iacute;n <a name="line_500" id="line_500"></a><span class="linenum">500</span><br />
+dieron las tinieblas fin.<br />
+Debo mantenerme oculto. (Se oculta en la izquierda)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (baja las gradas con preocupaci&oacute;n)<br />
+<br />
+En palacio a la duquesa<br />
+por mi fe de caballero<br />
+promet&iacute; poner... Bien; pero <a name="line_505" id="line_505"></a><span class="linenum">505</span><br />
+&iquest;c&oacute;mo cumplir mi promesa?<br />
+Con audacia... &iexcl;Desatino!<br />
+Por ardid... Ese Guzm&aacute;n<br />
+es tan cauteloso y tan...<br />
+Dios me ense&ntilde;ar&aacute; el camino. <a name="line_510" id="line_510"></a><span class="linenum">510</span><br />
+Con fuertes contrarios lucho...<br />
+<br />
+Pueden y... &iexcl;Tambi&eacute;n yo puedo!<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n me auxilia? &iquest;Qui&eacute;n? &iexcl;Quevedo!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Toc&aacute;ndose la frente y el pecho)</span><br />
+S&iacute;... s&iacute;. Los dos pod&eacute;is mucho:<br />
+grande el pensamiento aqu&iacute;, <a name="line_515" id="line_515"></a><span class="linenum">515</span><br />
+y aqu&iacute; grande el coraz&oacute;n;<br />
+armas de victoria son,<br />
+venzo de seguro... s&iacute;.<br />
+Tal vez no... &iexcl;S&iacute;! &iexcl;No!... Comienzo<br />
+a dudar... &iexcl;No! vencer&eacute;. <a name="line_520" id="line_520"></a><span class="linenum">520</span><br />
+&iquest;C&oacute;mo?... &iquest;C&oacute;mo?... No lo s&eacute;;<br />
+pero... de seguro venzo. (Pausa)<br />
+La duquesa en su posada<br />
+me cit&oacute; para las diez...<br />
+Ya encontraremos tal vez <a name="line_525" id="line_525"></a><span class="linenum">525</span><br />
+puertas que la den entrada.<br />
+&iexcl;Por Dios!... De cualquier modo,<br />
+la ha de ver su majestad...<br />
+pero antes debo... Es verdad;<br />
+debe calcularse todo. <a name="line_530" id="line_530"></a><span class="linenum">530</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Vase por el fondo despu&eacute;s de dirigir una</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">mirada a las puertas del templo)</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA (observ&aacute;ndole)<br />
+<br />
+&Eacute;l es, y se aleja; bien.<br />
+Gente sale. (Vuelve a esconderse)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA XII</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Medina</span>, oculto; <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span> saliendo del templo<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Pues, se&ntilde;or,</span><br />
+si a palacio vais, mejor:<br />
+yo a palacio voy tambi&eacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y Quevedo?... En alg&uacute;n lance... <a name="line_535" id="line_535"></a><span class="linenum">535</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Como esta tambi&eacute;n abierta,<br />
+sin duda por la otra puerta<br />
+fu&eacute;se, detr&aacute;s de un romance.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Por all&iacute; las damas van.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Mejor, si se fu&eacute; tras ellas. <a name="line_540" id="line_540"></a><span class="linenum">540</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+H&uacute;bolas, a fe, muy bellas.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Mejor sin el manto est&aacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA (a <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Triste and&aacute;is vos.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;, un acceso.</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Nunca os encontr&eacute; tan lacio.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA (de mal humor)<br />
+<br />
+En fin, &iquest;vamos a palacio? <a name="line_545" id="line_545"></a><span class="linenum">545</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Lo mejor, sin duda, es eso.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Vanse los tres por la derecha)</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; escuch&eacute;?... Por la otra puerta<br />
+salen las damas... Quiz&aacute;s<br />
+ella tambi&eacute;n... &iexcl;Satan&aacute;s<br />
+t&uacute;vola esta noche abierta! <a name="line_550" id="line_550"></a><span class="linenum">550</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Con furor)</span><br />
+March&oacute;se por ella... &iexcl;Oh, s&iacute;!<br />
+Todo se ha perdido...<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Margarita</span> aparece a las puertas del templo)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Ah!... &iexcl;No!</span><br />
+<br />
+(<span class="smcap">Medina</span> se oculta, <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> baja lentamente las gradas y despu&eacute;s<br />
+se dirige, como hablando consigo misma, a la calle de la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Margarita</span><br />
+S&oacute;lo en &eacute;l conf&iacute;o... Yo<br />
+nada puedo hacer por m&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Medina</span><br />
+<br />
+(Lleg&oacute; su vez al pu&ntilde;al.) <a name="line_555" id="line_555"></a><span class="linenum">555</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Margarita</span><br />
+No debo tener recelos...<br />
+Hoy velan por m&iacute; los cielos<br />
+y Dios me libra de mal. (Dir&iacute;gese a la derecha)<br />
+Ni se ve ni se oye nada.<br />
+&iexcl;Qu&eacute; soledad!... Tengo miedo.... <a name="line_560" id="line_560"></a><span class="linenum">560</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Al volver <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> la esquina <span class="smcap">Medina</span></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">se lanza detr&aacute;s cautelosamente)</span><br />
+Es tarde.... Tal vez Quevedo<br />
+se impacienta en mi posada.<br />
+Voy al punto... &iquest;Qu&eacute; rumor?...<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Volvi&eacute;ndose a <span class="smcap">Medina</span>, que estar&aacute; a dos pasos)</span><br />
+&iexcl;Un hombre!... &iexcl;Atr&aacute;s! &iquest;Qu&eacute; quer&eacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Medina</span> (haciendo un movimiento bajo la capa)<br />
+Vengo de paz...<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Margarita</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No os llegu&eacute;is...</span><a name="line_565" id="line_565"></a><span class="linenum">565</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA (lanz&aacute;ndose sobre ella pu&ntilde;al en mano)<br />
+<br />
+A mataros.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Ah!</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA XIII</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos y <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, que, saliendo de la calle de la derecha, sujeta por
+detr&aacute;s el brazo de <span class="smcap">Medina</span> que va a herir<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Traidor!</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Sujet&aacute;ndole el brazo con una mano)</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA (soltando el pu&ntilde;al)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Jesucristo!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Por all&iacute;...</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Se&ntilde;alando a la duquesa la calle de la izquierda</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">y sacando a <span class="smcap">Medina</span> la espada)</span><br />
+Al punto os sigo... Alejaos.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Volvi&eacute;ndose a <span class="smcap">Medina</span> que va a escapar y sujet&aacute;ndole por su capa)</span><br />
+&iexcl;Vos, no os alej&eacute;is... quedaos!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> dirige otra vez los ojos a la calle por donde ha desaparecido</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, y en tanto <span class="smcap">Medina</span> suelta la capa en sus manos)<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh! &iexcl;Me salv&eacute;! (Huyendo)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Con voz de trueno y levantando la espada de <span class="smcap">Medina</span>, que se queda inm&oacute;vil)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Quieto ah&iacute;!</span><a name="line_570" id="line_570"></a><span class="linenum">570</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> tira al suelo la capa de <span class="smcap">Medina</span> y dice, arroj&aacute;ndole su espada)</span><br />
+Ahora hierro contra hierro,<br />
+nueva lid.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mas vuestro nombre...</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (desenvainando)<br />
+<br />
+Si no lidi&aacute;is como un hombre,<br />
+vais a morir como un perro.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Ved... que... el duelo... no es igual. <a name="line_575" id="line_575"></a><span class="linenum">575</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+La espada ten&eacute;is desnuda.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Cierto...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Yo tambi&eacute;n.</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Sin duda.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+No hay ventaja pues.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute; tal.</span><br />
+(&iquest;Qu&eacute; dir&eacute;?...) Por de contado...<br />
+yo estoy... sin capa...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es muy cierto.</span><a name="line_580" id="line_580"></a><span class="linenum">580</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+Conoc&eacute;isme descubierto;<br />
+yo no os conozco embozado.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Ya que tanto alambic&aacute;is,<br />
+pronto una capa se quita.<br />
+<br />
+(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> se desembaraza de la capa, y, al arrojarla, <span class="smcap">Medina</span><br />
+saca una pistola, dispara y se afogona el tiro)<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Ay de vos!... (Arrojando la pistola)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Suerte maldita!</span><a name="line_585" id="line_585"></a><span class="linenum">585</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (Con frescura, poni&eacute;ndose en guardia en tanto que <span class="smcap">Medina</span> recobra su acero y
+se defiende en retirada)<br />
+<br />
+Mala p&oacute;lvora gast&aacute;is.<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Que el cielo os maldiga a vos!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Tiemblas!...<br />
+<br />
+MEDINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;De rabia!</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;De miedo!</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA (con espanto y retrocediendo)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh, perdonadme!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No puedo.</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDINA (con voz ahogada y cayendo dentro de la calle de la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Ay!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Que te perdone Dios.</span><a name="line_590" id="line_590"></a><span class="linenum">590</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Pausa)</span><br />
+He matado a un hombre. Fu&eacute;<br />
+con raz&oacute;n... S&iacute;... pero pesa<br />
+el crimen... &iexcl;Ah! la duquesa...<br />
+por aqu&iacute; la alcanzar&eacute;.<br />
+<br />
+(Toma la capa de MEDINA que est&aacute; a sus pies y vase por el fondo. La
+escena queda un momento sola. Despu&eacute;s aparece MARGARITA por
+la misma calle que tom&oacute; al marcharse)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA &Uacute;LTIMA</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, luego <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> y ronda<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Nada se oye.... Tras de m&iacute; <a name="line_595" id="line_595"></a><span class="linenum">595</span><br />
+dijo que ir&iacute;a.... Un momento<br />
+le aguard&eacute; junto al convento...<br />
+&iexcl;Muerta vengo!<br />
+<br />
+VOZ (dentro)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Por aqu&iacute;....</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh, la ronda!... (Quiere huir y vacila)<br />
+<br />
+ALCALDE (dentro)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ved si acaso...</span><br />
+Mas un hombre en esta esquina <a name="line_600" id="line_600"></a><span class="linenum">600</span><br />
+yace tendido.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(La calle de la izquierda aparece iluminada por la luz de una linterna)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (dentro)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;Es Medina!</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Oh, no puedo dar un paso!)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (saliendo)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Por Jesucristo en la cruz!<br />
+<br />
+ALCALDE (saliendo seguido de corchetes)<br />
+<br />
+Muerto.... Registradle.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (deteni&eacute;ndoles)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No.</span><a name="line_604" id="line_604"></a><span class="linenum">604</span><br />
+Debo registrarle yo. (Tropieza en la capa de <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+Mas &iquest;qu&eacute; es esto? &iexcl;Aqu&iacute; una luz! (Recoje la capa)<br />
+Pronto, la luz necesito.<br />
+<br />
+ALCALDE (a los alguaciles y acerc&aacute;ndose a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Ved que el matador se escapa.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Los corchetes desaparecen por la derecha)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+De Quevedo es esta capa.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Muerto!... &iexcl;Gran Dios! (Cae dentro)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ese grito...</span><a name="line_610" id="line_610"></a><span class="linenum">610</span><br />
+<br />
+ALCALDE (dentro)<br />
+<br />
+Una dama hay en el suelo.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Muerta?<br />
+<br />
+ALCALDE<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Desmayada...</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">A ver...</span><br />
+(&iexcl;Oh, la infanta!) A esa mujer<br />
+nadie la levante el velo.<br />
+<br />
+ALCALDE<br />
+<br />
+Bien, se&ntilde;or.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Una litera.</span><a name="line_615" id="line_615"></a><span class="linenum">615</span><br />
+<br />
+ALCALDE (a los corchetes que vuelven por la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+Id por ella y no tard&eacute;is... (Vanse)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Dentro a la dama pondr&eacute;is...<br />
+mas sin mirarla siquiera.<br />
+<br />
+ALCALDE<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Despu&eacute;s?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">(Mi triunfo es completo.)</span><br />
+Conducidla en breve espacio... <a name="line_620" id="line_620"></a><span class="linenum">620</span><br />
+<br />
+ALCALDE<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;D&oacute;nde?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A palacio.</span><br />
+<br />
+ALCALDE<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;A palacio?</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Por el caracol secreto.<br />
+<br />
+ALCALDE<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n la escolta?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&oacute;lo vos.</span><br />
+<br />
+ALCALDE<br />
+<br />
+Mas vuecencia...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ir&eacute; detr&aacute;s.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Vase el alcalde por la izquierda)</span><br />
+Duquesa, a palacio vas... <a name="line_625" id="line_625"></a><a href="#note_625"><span class="linenum">625</span></a><br />
+desde all&iacute;... &iexcl;s&aacute;belo Dios!<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Dir&iacute;gese con precipitaci&oacute;n hacia la calle</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">donde cay&oacute; <span class="smcap">Medina</span>, y cae el tel&oacute;n)</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="ACTO_SEGUNDO" id="ACTO_SEGUNDO"></a>ACTO SEGUNDO</h2>
+
+
+<p class="noind">Sal&oacute;n en el palacio del Buen Retiro. Puerta en el fondo que por la
+derecha conduce a las habitaciones de <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, y por la izquierda, a
+la capilla. A la derecha, en primer t&eacute;rmino, puerta que conduce a la
+escalera y corredores de palacio; a la izquierda, en primer t&eacute;rmino,
+la c&aacute;mara de la reina; en segundo, la del rey. Es de noche. La escena
+est&aacute; iluminada por un candelabro de cinco ramales colocado sobre un
+mueble de la &eacute;poca.</p>
+
+
+<p><br /><br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA PRIMERA</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">La Reina</span>, <span class="smcap">Do&ntilde;a In&eacute;s</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Do&ntilde;a In&eacute;s, todo es in&uacute;til:<br />
+no hay en el mundo consuelo<br />
+para m&iacute;; padezco mucho,<br />
+porque inocente padezco. <a name="line_630" id="line_630"></a><span class="linenum">630</span><br />
+&iexcl;Infeliz! Otras que sufren,<br />
+en su desventura, al menos,<br />
+viven &iexcl;ay! con esperanzas...<br />
+Yo sin esperanzas muero.<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Mas...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Con esperanzas locas,</span><a name="line_635" id="line_635"></a><span class="linenum">635</span><br />
+es verdad, so&ntilde;&eacute; alg&uacute;n tiempo;<br />
+se han desvanecido todas<br />
+por mi mal, y ya no sue&ntilde;o.<br />
+El dolor vela... &iexcl;Mis horas<br />
+son tan largas!... Yo las cuento <a name="line_640" id="line_640"></a><span class="linenum">640</span><br />
+por los ahogados latidos<br />
+de este coraz&oacute;n enfermo.<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+No os aflij&aacute;is...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Tantos d&iacute;as,</span><br />
+tantas noches de tormento,<br />
+siempre lo mismo!...<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Se&ntilde;ora...</span><a name="line_645" id="line_645"></a><span class="linenum">645</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Ni un instante de sosiego.<br />
+Viene el d&iacute;a y no reposo,<br />
+viene la noche y no duermo...<br />
+Si he de descansar... &iexcl;Dios m&iacute;o,<br />
+dame tu descanso eterno! <a name="line_650" id="line_650"></a><span class="linenum">650</span><br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo! &iquest;Llor&aacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No, no lloro...</span><br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+No me lo negu&eacute;is... No... Veo<br />
+h&uacute;medos ya vuestros ojos...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Pronto los ver&aacute;s bien secos.<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh, qu&eacute; horror!<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Padezco mucho,</span><a name="line_655" id="line_655"></a><span class="linenum">655</span><br />
+porque inocente padezco.<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Inocente... &iquest;Y qui&eacute;n lo duda?...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Felipe... mi esposo... miento:<br />
+ya no es mi esposo... el rey...<br />
+&iexcl;Rey para m&iacute; bien severo! <a name="line_660" id="line_660"></a><span class="linenum">660</span><br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Si &eacute;l vuestro amor comprendiera...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Nunca podr&aacute; comprenderlo.<br />
+Negras sospechas le turban;<br />
+y aunque es generoso y bueno,<br />
+para m&iacute; tan solo tiene <a name="line_665" id="line_665"></a><span class="linenum">665</span><br />
+rencor y amargo desprecio.<br />
+Y es que ve sobre mi frente<br />
+ese imaginario sello<br />
+del crimen...<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;No ve ese llanto?</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Sus dudas le tienen ciego. <a name="line_670" id="line_670"></a><span class="linenum">670</span><br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Pues bien, habladle.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es in&uacute;til:</span><br />
+sordo le tienen sus celos.<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Tal vez sus negras sospechas<br />
+se disipen con el tiempo.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Imposible: cada d&iacute;a <a name="line_675" id="line_675"></a><span class="linenum">675</span><br />
+toman, Do&ntilde;a In&eacute;s, m&aacute;s cuerpo;<br />
+y es natural: Olivares,<br />
+por odios que no comprendo,<br />
+le habla siempre de ese crimen.<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Pura invenci&oacute;n del infierno. <a name="line_680" id="line_680"></a><span class="linenum">680</span><br />
+Vos sois la virtud, se&ntilde;ora.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Mi virtud... es un misterio;<br />
+t&uacute; solamente lo sabes.<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+No, tambi&eacute;n lo sabe el cielo;<br />
+esperad en &eacute;l.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es tarde:</span><a name="line_685" id="line_685"></a><a href="#note_685"><span class="linenum">685</span></a><br />
+para mi mal no hay remedio.<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Si al rey llegara ese escrito...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Cu&aacute;l?<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">El del conde.</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Silencio!</span><br />
+No pronuncies ese nombre...<br />
+&iexcl;Villamediana!... Su espectro <a name="line_690" id="line_690"></a><span class="linenum">690</span><br />
+me persigue noche y d&iacute;a,<br />
+cual tenaz remordimiento.<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Sois inocente.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Inocente...</span><br />
+mas di causa, sin saberlo,<br />
+a que el buen Villamediana <a name="line_695" id="line_695"></a><span class="linenum">695</span><br />
+fuese a pu&ntilde;aladas muerto.<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Celos del rey le mataron.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n di&oacute; p&aacute;bulo a esos celos?<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Dicen que el conde os amaba...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Pues call&oacute; prudente y cuerdo; <a name="line_700" id="line_700"></a><span class="linenum">700</span><br />
+y si ese amor desdichado<br />
+fu&eacute;, como suponen, cierto,<br />
+jam&aacute;s la reina lo supo,<br />
+y en la tumba est&aacute; el secreto.<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+No, que el conde moribundo <a name="line_705" id="line_705"></a><a href="#note_705"><span class="linenum">705</span></a><br />
+se arranc&oacute; el pu&ntilde;al del pecho...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Calla!<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Y con su propia sangre</span><br />
+pudo escribir...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Tal recuerdo!...</span><br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Puede salvaros... El conde<br />
+dicen que escribi&oacute; un momento <a name="line_710" id="line_710"></a><span class="linenum">710</span><br />
+con su sangre, y ese escrito<br />
+se encontr&oacute; sobre su cuerpo.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Desdichado!<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Vos, se&ntilde;ora,</span><br />
+sois pura, y lo sabe el cielo.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;C&oacute;mo hacer que el rey lo sepa? <a name="line_715" id="line_715"></a><span class="linenum">715</span><br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Con ese escrito sangriento.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Ay! En manos de Olivares<br />
+cay&oacute;, seg&uacute;n dicen... Cierto...<br />
+ese papel ya no existe...<br />
+le habr&aacute; consumido el fuego. <a name="line_720" id="line_720"></a><span class="linenum">720</span><br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Eso tem&eacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Olivares</span><br />
+goza en mis padecimientos...<br />
+&iquest;Por qu&eacute; me aborrece ese hombre?<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S (mirando al fondo)<br />
+<br />
+Viene por aqu&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Retir&eacute;monos.</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA II</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Dichas</span> y <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, que entra por el fondo<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Si mi presencia importuna... <a name="line_725" id="line_725"></a><span class="linenum">725</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+No, Conde-duque... (Con violencia)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Sospecho</span><br />
+que Su Majestad se aleja<br />
+s&oacute;lo porque yo me acerco.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Yo...<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">La reina est&aacute; indispuesta.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Sabe Dios cu&aacute;nto lo siento. <a name="line_730" id="line_730"></a><span class="linenum">730</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Gracias.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">(&iquest;Sabr&aacute; la venida</span><br />
+de la duquesa? Indaguemos.)<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;C&oacute;mo est&aacute; el rey?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Siempre triste.</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;No le he visto en tanto tiempo!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (mirando fijamente a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>)<br />
+<br />
+La duquesa Margarita... <a name="line_735" id="line_735"></a><span class="linenum">735</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Aun sola en Oca&ntilde;a!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Cierto.</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Haced que vuelva a la corte;<br />
+dadme ese dulce consuelo:<br />
+que vuelva... &iexcl;Me quiere tanto!...<br />
+&iexcl;Tanto como yo la quiero! <a name="line_740" id="line_740"></a><span class="linenum">740</span><br />
+Prima del alma... &iexcl;Es tan buena!...<br />
+S&iacute;, s&iacute;, que vuelva al momento....<br />
+&iexcl;Oh! &iquest;Lo har&eacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Si no os enoja,</span><br />
+de conversaci&oacute;n mudemos. (Pausa)<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Yo de otra os hablara... <a name="line_745" id="line_745"></a><span class="linenum">745</span><br />
+&iquest;Me comprend&eacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Os comprendo.</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Pues ese sangriento escrito...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Sangriento, es verdad, sangriento.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Conque existe pues?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Existe.</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Lo ten&eacute;is vos?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Yo lo tengo;</span><a name="line_750" id="line_750"></a><span class="linenum">750</span><br />
+ya os lo repet&iacute; mil veces.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Entreg&aacute;dmelo.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">No puedo.</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Prueba la inocencia m&iacute;a....<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+No del todo, seg&uacute;n pienso.<br />
+<br />
+REINA (con altivez)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Conde-duque!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (con hipocres&iacute;a)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Para m&iacute;</span><a name="line_755" id="line_755"></a><span class="linenum">755</span><br />
+sois de virtudes modelo;<br />
+mas el rey...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Dadle ese escrito.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Ya se lo dar&eacute; a su tiempo.<br />
+Para darle la triaca,<br />
+dejad que apure el veneno: <a name="line_760" id="line_760"></a><span class="linenum">760</span><br />
+hoy las sospechas le acosan...<br />
+ya se ir&aacute;n desvaneciendo,<br />
+y entonces ver&aacute; ese escrito<br />
+ya sin prevenci&oacute;n, y espero...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Es que van ya muchos a&ntilde;os <a name="line_765" id="line_765"></a><a href="#note_765"><span class="linenum">765</span></a><br />
+desde que vivo muriendo<br />
+despreciada de mi esposo,<br />
+que escucha vuestros consejos;<br />
+y en palacio, viuda y sola,<br />
+sufro su amargo desprecio, <a name="line_770" id="line_770"></a><span class="linenum">770</span><br />
+porque aduladores viles<br />
+le han trastornado el cerebro.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Qu&eacute; exaltaci&oacute;n!... Ved, se&ntilde;ora,<br />
+que est&aacute; d&eacute;bil en extremo<br />
+vuestra salud...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Conde-duque,</span><a name="line_775" id="line_775"></a><span class="linenum">775</span><br />
+no insult&eacute;is mi sufrimiento.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Vamos a otra cosa: el pr&iacute;ncipe<br />
+ni&ntilde;o, sucesor del reino,<br />
+por su edad...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Hijo del alma!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Ya del regazo materno <a name="line_780" id="line_780"></a><a href="#note_780"><span class="linenum">780</span></a><br />
+debe separarse.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Oh, nunca!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Es el pr&iacute;ncipe heredero,<br />
+y ha resuelto el rey, su padre...<br />
+&iquest;lo o&iacute;s?... el rey lo ha resuelto,<br />
+darle servidumbre propia, <a name="line_785" id="line_785"></a><span class="linenum">785</span><br />
+libros, armas y maestros,<br />
+y, por fin, c&aacute;mara digna<br />
+de su car&aacute;cter excelso.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Me arranc&aacute;is el hijo mio!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Elegid el aposento <a name="line_790" id="line_790"></a><a href="#note_790"><span class="linenum">790</span></a><br />
+que m&aacute;s le cuadre en palacio.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Gran Dios!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Yo os ir&eacute; diciendo:</span><br />
+el del jard&iacute;n... el de Osorio...<br />
+el de Ripalda... el de Lemus...<br />
+el de Borja... el de la infanta...<a name="line_795" id="line_795"></a><span class="linenum">795</span><br />
+Elegid...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Elijo... &iexcl;el vuestro!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo!<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Ocup&aacute;is en palacio</span><br />
+el m&aacute;s ostentoso y regio;<br />
+y entre pr&iacute;ncipe y vasallo<br />
+lo primero es lo primero. <a name="line_800" id="line_800"></a><span class="linenum">800</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">(<span class="smcap">La Reina</span> se retira por la puerta de su</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">c&aacute;mara; <span class="smcap">Do&ntilde;a In&eacute;s</span> la sigue despu&eacute;s)</span><br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh, respetadla!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Me arroja</span><br />
+de aqu&iacute;!... &iexcl;Por Dios la prometo!...<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;No!... &iquest;Qu&eacute; intent&aacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (reprimi&eacute;ndose)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Nada, nada...</span><br />
+buscar otro alojamiento.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA III</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&laquo;Entre pr&iacute;ncipe y vasallo <a name="line_805" id="line_805"></a><span class="linenum">805</span><br />
+lo primero es lo primero&raquo;,<br />
+me dijo, y call&eacute;... S&iacute;; pero<br />
+yo para obrar siempre callo.<br />
+&iexcl;Vasallo quien da la ley!...<br />
+Reina, me hiciste un ultraje; <a name="line_810" id="line_810"></a><span class="linenum">810</span><br />
+que no rinde vasallaje<br />
+quien hizo vasallo al rey.<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; genio malo te acosa?<br />
+&iquest;C&oacute;mo no te dice el alma<br />
+que quien destruy&oacute; tu calma <a name="line_815" id="line_815"></a><span class="linenum">815</span><br />
+aun puede hacerte dichosa?<br />
+D&eacute;bil, incauta mujer...<br />
+en tu desamparo triste<br />
+nunca tan altiva fuiste...<br />
+ni lo volver&aacute;s a ser. <a name="line_820" id="line_820"></a><span class="linenum">820</span><br />
+Yo tu dicha tengo aqu&iacute;:<br />
+s&iacute;, se encierra en esta carta<br />
+sangrienta que no se aparta<br />
+un solo instante de m&iacute;. (Pausa)<br />
+El rey te abrir&aacute; sus brazos <a name="line_825" id="line_825"></a><span class="linenum">825</span><br />
+si a ver llega tal escrito;<br />
+mas primero el favorito<br />
+se lo comer&aacute; en pedazos.<br />
+<br />
+Te amaba el rey con pasi&oacute;n;<br />
+mas roto el lazo nupcial <a name="line_830" id="line_830"></a><span class="linenum">830</span><br />
+por mi astucia, sin rival<br />
+reino yo en su coraz&oacute;n.<br />
+Nadie mi secreto sabe:<br />
+muerto Medina, segura<br />
+guardar&aacute; en la sepultura <a name="line_835" id="line_835"></a><span class="linenum">835</span><br />
+de este secreto la llave.<br />
+&iexcl;Medina!... &iexcl;Fatal recuerdo!...<br />
+El papel que me arranc&oacute;<br />
+&iquest;d&oacute;nde ese hombre lo guard&oacute;?<br />
+S&iacute; alguien da con &eacute;l, me pierdo. <a name="line_840" id="line_840"></a><span class="linenum">840</span><br />
+La incertidumbre me abrasa....<br />
+No; lo que pens&eacute; es verdad:<br />
+para m&aacute;s seguridad<br />
+lo guard&oacute; en aquella casa....<br />
+S&iacute;; mi presunci&oacute;n es cierta: <a name="line_845" id="line_845"></a><span class="linenum">845</span><br />
+el papel oculto est&aacute;<br />
+dentro de la casa... y ya<br />
+sell&eacute; yo mismo la puerta.<br />
+Y no s&eacute; por qu&eacute; me apuro....<br />
+Ma&ntilde;ana busco el papel <a name="line_850" id="line_850"></a><span class="linenum">850</span><br />
+en la casa, y doy con &eacute;l....<br />
+S&iacute;, doy con &eacute;l, de seguro.<br />
+Todo va bien: la duquesa<br />
+se halla, pues, a buen recaudo,<br />
+y yo por el fin me aplaudo <a name="line_855" id="line_855"></a><span class="linenum">855</span><br />
+de tan arriesgada empresa.<br />
+<br />
+(Mirando a la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+Pero all&iacute; viene Menda&ntilde;a<br />
+con el marqu&eacute;s y don Juan<br />
+de Castilla; siempre van<br />
+juntos en buena compa&ntilde;a. <a name="line_860" id="line_860"></a><span class="linenum">860</span><br />
+<br />
+Y por Dios que el tal Castilla<br />
+tiene lengua de escorpi&oacute;n,<br />
+y hacia m&iacute; poca afici&oacute;n,<br />
+seg&uacute;n cuentos de la villa.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA IV</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span> y <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> por la derecha. Al entrar, <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span><br />
+se dirige a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> con solicitud exagerada; <span class="smcap">Grana</span> le saluda<br />
+afectuoso, y <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> hace una leve inclinaci&oacute;n y se queda algo<br />
+separado del grupo<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Buenas noches, caballeros. <a name="line_865" id="line_865"></a><span class="linenum">865</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Que el cielo os guarde, se&ntilde;or.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Solo me encontr&aacute;is.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mejor.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Mucho me contenta el veros.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Gracias.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Honor singular.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Triste anduve todo el d&iacute;a. <a name="line_870" id="line_870"></a><span class="linenum">870</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Mejor...<br />
+<br />
+GRANA (interrumpi&eacute;ndole)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Qu&eacute;?</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mejor ser&iacute;a</span><br />
+que os fueseis a descansar.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+No, son tristezas...<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iexcl;Historia!)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Y de divertirlas trato.<br />
+Conque... hablemos, pues, un rato.<a name="line_875" id="line_875"></a><span class="linenum">875</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Rato mejor... ni en la gloria.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+(Tanta humillaci&oacute;n ya es mengua.)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Contadme algo de la villa<br />
+los tres... los dos, pues Castilla<br />
+se ha venido sin la lengua. <a name="line_880" id="line_880"></a><span class="linenum">880</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Castilla</span> se encoge de hombros desde&ntilde;osamente)</span><br />
+&iquest;Nada respond&eacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Don Juan!...</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;No me habl&aacute;is?... Ved que yo os hablo.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+(Lleve tu palabra el diablo.)<br />
+<br />
+GRANA (aparte a Menda&ntilde;a)<br />
+<br />
+Mucho me temo un desm&aacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Al ministro...<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(Fuera mengua.)</span><a name="line_885" id="line_885"></a><span class="linenum">885</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Responded.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(Mal humor gasta.)</span><br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Vos lo dijisteis, y basta:<br />
+me he venido sin la lengua.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Ligero anduve en decir,<br />
+y mi error he conocido. <a name="line_890" id="line_890"></a><span class="linenum">890</span><br />
+Con lengua os hab&eacute;is venido...<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 9.5em;">(Con c&oacute;lera)</span><br />
+&iexcl;Sin lengua os debierais ir!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 9.5em;">(<span class="smcap">Olivares</span> se retira por el fondo con aire sombr&iacute;o,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 9.5em;">seguido de <span class="smcap">Grana</span> y <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA V</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Castilla</span>; despu&eacute;s <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span><br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Vive Dios, me la arrancara<br />
+yo mismo, juro a mi nombre,<br />
+porque no ha lanzado a ese hombre <a name="line_895" id="line_895"></a><span class="linenum">895</span><br />
+cien insultos a la cara!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> entra por la derecha en el mayor desorden y pasa junto</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">a <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> sin reparar en &eacute;l, yendo a quedarse en medio de la</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">escena como abismado en sus pensamientos)</span><br />
+&iexcl;Por Cristo en la cruz, Quevedo!...<br />
+A ocasi&oacute;n dichosa viene.<br />
+<br />
+Quiero hablarle... mas &iquest;qu&eacute; tiene?<br />
+Su rostro me infunde miedo. <a name="line_900" id="line_900"></a><span class="linenum">900</span><br />
+Desde aqu&iacute; le he de observar.<br />
+&iexcl;Qu&eacute; temblor!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;Pesquisa vana!</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Despu&eacute;s de una pausa)</span><br />
+&iexcl;Ruin inteligencia humana,<br />
+no sabes adivinar! (Pausa)<br />
+&iexcl;Oh, me pierdo en el abismo <a name="line_905" id="line_905"></a><span class="linenum">905</span><br />
+de mi propia confusi&oacute;n,<br />
+y vacila mi raz&oacute;n!<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+(&iquest;Qu&eacute; hablar&aacute; consigo mismo?)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Ni en la calle ni en su casa<br />
+dar he podido con ella.... <a name="line_910" id="line_910"></a><span class="linenum">910</span><br />
+&iexcl;Si... naci&oacute; con mala estrella...<br />
+tal vez... mi frente se abrasa!<br />
+La libr&eacute; de un asesino,<br />
+y otro quiz&aacute;s tan cruel<br />
+la mat&oacute;... &iexcl;M&iacute;sero de &eacute;l <a name="line_915" id="line_915"></a><span class="linenum">915</span><br />
+si le encuentro en mi camino!<br />
+&iexcl;Muerta!... No.... &iquest;Presa?... Quiz&aacute;s....<br />
+Olivares... &Eacute;l la esconde....<br />
+S&iacute;, s&iacute;... pero &iquest;en d&oacute;nde, en d&oacute;nde?<br />
+Mas... raz&oacute;n, discurre m&aacute;s. <a name="line_920" id="line_920"></a><span class="linenum">920</span><br />
+T&uacute;, de tan altas ideas<br />
+creadora... &iexcl;Oh, mente m&iacute;a,<br />
+si hallas luz, alumbra y gu&iacute;a!...<br />
+Y si no... &iexcl;maldita seas!<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA VI</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos, <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span> que salen por el fondo derecha. <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>,<br />
+al verlos, les hace se&ntilde;as para que guarden silencio<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Calla... Quevedo...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mejor...</span><a name="line_925" id="line_925"></a><a href="#note_925"><span class="linenum">925</span></a><br />
+Nos dir&aacute; alguna letrilla.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Se&ntilde;as nos hace Castilla.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Chist... al buen entendedor...<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span> durante esta escena hablan</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">como si quisieran no ser o&iacute;dos)</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Entendido.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Claro est&aacute;:</span><br />
+Don Francisco en este instante <a name="line_930" id="line_930"></a><span class="linenum">930</span><br />
+busca un feroz consonante.<br />
+Mejor.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Pues lo encontrar&aacute;.</span><br />
+No le interrumpamos, pues.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Eso es lo mejor.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Ah&iacute; quietos!</span><br />
+<br />
+MEDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Lo menos quince sonetos <a name="line_935" id="line_935"></a><span class="linenum">935</span><br />
+nos guarda para despu&eacute;s.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Nada: o salvarla o morir.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+(Es ya mucho meditar.)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;S&iacute;... s&iacute;, s&iacute;!<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(Me hace temblar.)</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Mucho nos har&aacute; re&iacute;r. <a name="line_940" id="line_940"></a><a href="#note_940"><span class="linenum">940</span></a><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Gran Dios, un rayo de luz<br />
+entre en esta oscuridad!<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Pero &iquest;qu&eacute; miro?... Es verdad:<br />
+brilla en su capa una cruz.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Y es la de Santiago... Pero <a name="line_945" id="line_945"></a><span class="linenum">945</span><br />
+&iquest;cu&aacute;ndo el h&aacute;bito alcanz&oacute;?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Mis sienes estallan... &iexcl;Oh!...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Hoy, sin duda, caballero<br />
+le hizo Olivares y... Ved:<br />
+ya con la cruz de Santiago, <a name="line_950" id="line_950"></a><span class="linenum">950</span><br />
+versos le dedica en pago<br />
+de tan cumplida merced.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Terrible ser&aacute; la lucha!<br />
+Bien; me sobra coraz&oacute;n.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, al decir esto, se vuelve y se encuentra entre <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">Grana</span> y <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>, que han ido acerc&aacute;ndose lentamente, aqu&eacute;llos</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">por la izquierda y &eacute;ste por la derecha)</span><br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n es?<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (con grito de j&uacute;bilo)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Letrilla... Atenci&oacute;n!</span><a name="line_955" id="line_955"></a><span class="linenum">955</span><br />
+&iquest;Tendr&aacute; gracia? (A <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Mucha, mucha!</span><br />
+Tiene tanta... que yo mismo<br />
+crujo de risa...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Al instante</span><br />
+recit&aacute;dnosla. &iquest;Picante<br />
+ser&aacute;?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">M&aacute;s que un sinapismo.</span><a name="line_960" id="line_960"></a><span class="linenum">960</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;La acabasteis?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Falta poco.</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;S&aacute;tira?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Contra los necios.</span><br />
+&iexcl;Qu&eacute; golpes les doy tan recios!<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Siempre alegre!<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(O siempre loco.)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Cu&aacute;nto sufro!)<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Nadie triste</span><a name="line_965" id="line_965"></a><span class="linenum">965</span><br />
+puede estar donde est&eacute;is vos.<br />
+Hacednos re&iacute;r...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iexcl;Ay, Dios!)</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Con un chiste.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Con un chiste</span><br />
+quisiera haceros re&iacute;r,<br />
+y re&iacute;r hasta rabiar, <a name="line_970" id="line_970"></a><span class="linenum">970</span><br />
+y de risa reventar,<br />
+y a risotadas morir.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Qu&eacute; ocurrencia!<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Me enamora;</span><br />
+nadie las tiene mejores.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Necios!)<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S (saliendo)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">La reina, se&ntilde;ores.</span><a name="line_975" id="line_975"></a><span class="linenum">975</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA VII</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos, <span class="smcap">la Reina</span> y <span class="smcap">Do&ntilde;a In&eacute;s</span>, que salen de su c&aacute;mara;<br />
+despu&eacute;s <span class="smcap">Olivares</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;D&oacute;nde ir&aacute; la reina ahora?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Pobre m&aacute;rtir!)<br />
+<br />
+REINA (a IN&Eacute;S)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><i>Pon mi silla.</i></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Do&ntilde;a In&eacute;s</span> se dirige a la capilla. Los cuatro</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">hacen una reverencia a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Salud&aacute;ndoles)</span><br />
+Adi&oacute;s. Orando un momento,<br />
+voy a ver el monumento<br />
+que hoy adorna mi capilla. (Dir&iacute;gese a ella) <a name="line_980" id="line_980"></a><span class="linenum">980</span><br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA (a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Siempre triste.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">A Dios le plugo.</span><br />
+(&iexcl;Pobre v&iacute;ctima!)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Reparando en <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, que sale por el fondo derecha y se dirige a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 9.5em;">(&iquest;Esto m&aacute;s?)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Se&ntilde;ora. (Saludando)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">(&iexcl;Siempre detr&aacute;s</span><br />
+de la v&iacute;ctima el verdugo!)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Vais a orar?<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Es cosa extra&ntilde;a?</span><a name="line_985" id="line_985"></a><span class="linenum">985</span><br />
+La oraci&oacute;n presta consuelo.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Ir&eacute;is a pedir al cielo?...<br />
+<br />
+REINA (interrumpiendo)<br />
+<br />
+La felicidad de Espa&ntilde;a.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Que eso le pid&aacute;is es llano,<br />
+y eso le pedimos todos. <a name="line_990" id="line_990"></a><span class="linenum">990</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;, de diferentes modos.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(T&eacute;ngame Dios de su mano.)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">La Reina</span> se halla en el fondo, <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> a su izquierda, y los</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">dem&aacute;s a su derecha, siendo <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span> el m&aacute;s pr&oacute;ximo)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Si oye Dios vuestra plegaria<br />
+cuando or&aacute;is en la capilla;<br />
+&iexcl;l&aacute;stima que vuestra silla <a name="line_995" id="line_995"></a><span class="linenum">995</span><br />
+est&eacute; all&iacute; tan solitaria!<br />
+<br />
+REINA (con exaltaci&oacute;n y dolor)<br />
+<br />
+Otra tuvo de igual porte<br />
+en esa mansi&oacute;n bendita...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n?<br />
+<br />
+REINA (mirando a su alrededor y como sintiendo haber dicho demasiado)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">La infanta Margarita...</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Aparte a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span> y por detr&aacute;s de <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, volviendo<br />
+a quedarse en su puesto inmediatamente)<br />
+<br />
+(Dicen que se halla en la corte.)<a name="line_1000" id="line_1000"></a><span class="linenum">1000</span><br />
+<br />
+(<span class="smcap">La Reina</span>, al oir a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, vuelve la cabeza y se fija en <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>)<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo me mira!... &iexcl;Mejor!<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+(&iquest;Ser&aacute; cierto lo que o&iacute;?) (Agitada)<br />
+&iquest;Es cierto, es cierto?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (con &eacute;nfasis e intenci&oacute;n)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;S&iacute;!</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">(Con indiferencia)&iexcl;S&iacute;!...</span><br />
+silla tuvo...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es un error.</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+(Mirando a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, el cual se ha quedado inm&oacute;vil,<br />
+aparentando la mayor frialdad)<br />
+<br />
+(Comprendo... Quevedo ha sido <a name="line_1005" id="line_1005"></a><span class="linenum">1005</span><br />
+quien en voz baja...)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">La tuvo</span><br />
+el rey....<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">(A mi lado estuvo...</span><br />
+&eacute;l fu&eacute; quien me habl&oacute; al o&iacute;do.)<br />
+<br />
+(<span class="smcap">La Reina</span> se dirige hacia la capilla con los ojos fijos en <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>.<br />
+<span class="smcap">Olivares</span> hace un movimiento como para detenerla)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Yo una s&uacute;plica he de haceros.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Decid. (&iquest;C&oacute;mo hablar a ese hombre?) <a name="line_1010" id="line_1010"></a><span class="linenum">1010</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Os la dirijo en mi nombre<br />
+y en el de estos caballeros:<br />
+pues sola vais a marcharos<br />
+hacia la capilla ahora,<br />
+&iquest;nos conceder&eacute;is, se&ntilde;ora, <a name="line_1015" id="line_1015"></a><span class="linenum">1015</span><br />
+el honor de acompa&ntilde;aros?<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Pl&aacute;ceme la cortes&iacute;a;<br />
+y acepto. (Hablar&eacute; con &eacute;l.)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pues todos hasta el cancel<br />
+os haremos compa&ntilde;&iacute;a. <a name="line_1020" id="line_1020"></a><span class="linenum">1020</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Grana</span> y <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> se inclinan en se&ntilde;al de asentimiento.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> se va apartando poco a poco, hasta quedarse junto a la</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">puerta de la derecha)</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Gracias...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Es nuestro el honor.</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+(Me colocar&eacute; a su lado.)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Para hacer m&aacute;s se&ntilde;alado<br />
+tan eminente favor<br />
+un caballero escoged... <a name="line_1025" id="line_1025"></a><span class="linenum">1025</span><br />
+su mano hasta all&iacute; aceptad.<br />
+<br />
+REINA (con visibles muestras de alegr&iacute;a)<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;, s&iacute;....<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Dichoso en verdad</span><br />
+el que obtenga tal merced.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Todos se inclinan, menos <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Ya est&aacute;n de orgullo beodos.)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (mirando a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span> con aire de triunfo)<br />
+<br />
+(Hoy mi mano has de tocar.) <a name="line_1030" id="line_1030"></a><span class="linenum">1030</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">(<span class="smcap">A la Reina</span>)</span><br />
+A esa distinci&oacute;n sin par<br />
+todos aspiramos... todos... (Incl&iacute;nanse de nuevo)<br />
+<br />
+REINA (mirando alrededor)<br />
+<br />
+Todos... &iquest;menos vos, Quevedo?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Yo, incapaz de merecerla,<br />
+nunca osara pretenderla. <a name="line_1035" id="line_1035"></a><span class="linenum">1035</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Pues a vos os la concedo.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> se adelanta hacia <span class="smcap">la Reina</span> y todos le abren paso. Al llegar</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">a ella, que le alarga la mano, dobla una rodilla y besa)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (con emoci&oacute;n)<br />
+<br />
+Pues tal honra merec&iacute;,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Levant&aacute;ndose y mudando de tono repentinamente)</span><br />
+gracias, Olivares. &iexcl;Oh,<br />
+brava idea os ocurri&oacute;!...<br />
+mas otra me ocurre a m&iacute;: <a name="line_1040" id="line_1040"></a><span class="linenum">1040</span><br />
+sin pajes la reina est&aacute;,<br />
+sola viene... y es costumbre<br />
+que su camino se alumbre<br />
+cuando a la capilla va...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Esa observaci&oacute;n... (Con disgusto)<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es cierta.</span><a name="line_1045" id="line_1045"></a><span class="linenum">1045</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues cual buenos servidores,<br />
+justo es que todos, se&ntilde;ores,<br />
+la alumbr&eacute;is hasta la puerta.<br />
+Luces... (Se&ntilde;alando al candelabro)<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ocurrencia sabia.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Tomando una luz de las cinco que habr&aacute; en el candelabro, acci&oacute;n que</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">imitan los dem&aacute;s, menos <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, que mira a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> con</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">asombro)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (con frialdad a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Otra queda para vos; <a name="line_1050" id="line_1050"></a><span class="linenum">1050</span><br />
+y si os place, aun quedan dos....<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Bien cont&aacute;is.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Tomando furioso y con mano tr&eacute;mula una de las dos luces</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">que quedan, como dominado por la mirada de <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">(Tiembla de rabia.)</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Gracias, gracias.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(A <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span> que la rodean</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">con las luces, pero sin dejar de mirar a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Bien, por Dios!</span><br />
+Alumbrad... Sois, caballeros,<br />
+excelentes... (Incl&iacute;nanse <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Grana</span> y <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">candeleros....</span><a name="line_1055" id="line_1055"></a><span class="linenum">1055</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">(A <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)</span><br />
+Y el m&aacute;s excelente... vos.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Olivares</span> se inclina tambi&eacute;n con despecho. <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, que ha dado</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">la mano a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>, se dirige a la capilla entre los cuatro alumbradores,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">que se colocan a la puerta para darles paso, entrando</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">tambi&eacute;n despu&eacute;s. Al desaparecer la comitiva se presenta el <span class="smcap">Capit&aacute;n</span></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">por la derecha haci&eacute;ndose cruces)</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA VIII</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Capit&aacute;n</span>; luego los mismos, menos <span class="smcap">la Reina</span><br />
+<br />
+CAPIT&Aacute;N (despu&eacute;s de seguirlos con la vista)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; es esto? &iexcl;Vaya un retablo!<br />
+Todos van en procesi&oacute;n...<br />
+Cosas de Quevedo son....<br />
+Si es el mism&iacute;simo diablo. <a name="line_1060" id="line_1060"></a><span class="linenum">1060</span><br />
+Cuando empieza... &iexcl;Qu&eacute; pedrisco!<br />
+Cada letra es una pulla.<br />
+Y Olivares... pues... de bulla:<br />
+le divierte don Francisco.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Viendo salir a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> que vuelve; despu&eacute;s aparecen <span class="smcap">Grana</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span> y <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>, que traen en medio a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)</span><br />
+Hola, bien; me har&eacute; presente. <a name="line_1065" id="line_1065"></a><span class="linenum">1065</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Capit&aacute;n, estad alerta<br />
+a mi voz, junto a esa puerta. (Se&ntilde;alando la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+CAPIT&Aacute;N<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Solo?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">No, con vuestra gente.(Vase el <span class="smcap">Capit&aacute;n</span>)</span><br />
+Caro pagar&aacute; el desm&aacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA (a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Recibid mi parabi&eacute;n. <a name="line_1070" id="line_1070"></a><a href="#note_1070"><span class="linenum">1070</span></a><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (id.)<br />
+<br />
+De Santiago... Bien, muy bien.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (preocupado)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; habr&aacute; dicho al capit&aacute;n?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Bien toc&aacute;is vuestros registros.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Nunca me voy por las ramas.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Muy bien os va con las damas. <a name="line_1075" id="line_1075"></a><span class="linenum">1075</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Y mejor con los ministros.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (yendo a se&ntilde;alar la cruz que lleva <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> en la capa)<br />
+<br />
+D&iacute;galo si no...<br />
+<br />
+GRANA (a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Contento</span><br />
+estar&eacute;is.... Os da val&iacute;a.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(No los comprendo, a fe m&iacute;a.)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 10.5em;">(Mira alternativamente a los dos)</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Os la columbr&eacute; al momento. <a name="line_1080" id="line_1080"></a><span class="linenum">1080</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+La merec&eacute;is.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iquest;Qui&eacute;n lo ignora?</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Maldito si entiendo nada.)<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Y os est&aacute; que ni pintada.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Menos los entiendo ahora.)<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+El talento es una mina. <a name="line_1085" id="line_1085"></a><span class="linenum">1085</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Poniendo en el hombro la mano a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, que le mira con asombro)</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Mirad... Ya puesta la tiene.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo! (Esa cruz... &iexcl;Oh, se viene<br />
+con la capa de Medina!)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Me ahogo!)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Adelant&aacute;ndose del grupo con marcado fastidio)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (aparte a <span class="smcap">Grana</span>, que se dirige a hablar a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Callad!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Id. a <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>)</span><br />
+&iexcl;Silencio!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Pues a nacer hallas prontos <a name="line_1090" id="line_1090"></a><span class="linenum">1090</span><br />
+con tal perfecci&oacute;n los tontos,<br />
+yo, gran Dios, te reverencio.)<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Ya le tendr&eacute;is que pedir<br />
+versos por tan gran favor....<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Tengo que hablarle....<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Mejor, <a name="line_1095" id="line_1095"></a><span class="linenum">1095</span><br />
+mejor... Os har&aacute; re&iacute;r.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pronto acabamos, a fe.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Esperanzas... y temores.)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+A mi habitaci&oacute;n, se&ntilde;ores;<br />
+yo mismo os conducir&eacute;. <a name="line_1100" id="line_1100"></a><span class="linenum">1100</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Dir&iacute;gense mirando a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> al marchar)</span><br />
+(No saldr&aacute;s bien de este apuro.)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+A solas tengo que hablaros. (Con tono brusco)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Ya pensaba yo en buscaros.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Yo saldr&eacute; a puerto seguro...<br />
+si no muero entre las olas....) <a name="line_1105" id="line_1105"></a><span class="linenum">1105</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(A <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> que aun permanece observ&aacute;ndole desde la puerta)</span><br />
+Os aguardo aqu&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Est&aacute; bien;<br />
+vuelvo al punto; yo tambi&eacute;n<br />
+tengo que hablaros a solas. (Entra en su c&aacute;mara)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA IX</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Dios nos clava frente a frente;<br />
+para leer en lo escondido <a name="line_1110" id="line_1110"></a><span class="linenum">1110</span><br />
+de ese coraz&oacute;n podrido,<br />
+Dios alumbrar&aacute; mi mente.<br />
+Valedor de la duquesa,<br />
+debo salvarla o morir...<br />
+Lo primero es inquirir <a name="line_1115" id="line_1115"></a><span class="linenum">1115</span><br />
+en d&oacute;nde la tiene presa.<br />
+&iexcl;Presa! &iquest;Qui&eacute;n sabe?... Es verdad;<br />
+en su vengativa sa&ntilde;a<br />
+tal vez la condujo a Oca&ntilde;a...<br />
+&iexcl;O la hundi&oacute; en la eternidad! <a name="line_1120" id="line_1120"></a><span class="linenum">1120</span><br />
+No, no... tan negro delito<br />
+deja helado el coraz&oacute;n...<br />
+&iquest;Cabe en la ruin ambici&oacute;n<br />
+de ese torpe favorito?<br />
+La di&oacute; muerte... &iexcl;Ah, de los dos <a name="line_1125" id="line_1125"></a><span class="linenum">1125</span><br />
+uno tambi&eacute;n morir&aacute;!<br />
+&Eacute;l... y muy pronto ser&aacute;...<br />
+&iexcl;M&iacute;sero de &eacute;l! &iexcl;Si, gran Dios,<br />
+si he de morir a las penas<br />
+de tu infierno condenado, <a name="line_1130" id="line_1130"></a><span class="linenum">1130</span><br />
+muera rojo y remojado<br />
+con la sangre de sus venas!<br />
+<br />
+(Ap&oacute;yase convulsivamente en el mueble donde se halla el candelabro,<br />
+en el cual habr&aacute; ya una luz solamente, y aparece <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA X</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, <span class="smcap">Olivares</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(Hoy me le entrega esa cruz.) (Se acerca lentamente)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Pero le siento hablar.)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Es necesario matar!... <a name="line_1135" id="line_1135"></a><span class="linenum">1135</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Matar! (A <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> con extra&ntilde;eza)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">S&iacute;, matar la luz.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Soplando inmediatamente la luz y con acento de</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">indiferencia. La escena queda en tinieblas)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Luces!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">(Bien, me importa poco;</span><br />
+ya mi rostro est&aacute; sereno....<br />
+O&iacute;ste y no viste.... Bueno.) (Entran luces)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(O es muy h&aacute;bil o muy loco.) <a name="line_1140" id="line_1140"></a><span class="linenum">1140</span><br />
+Ya con luces...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;... se ve;</span><br />
+(pero no mi turbaci&oacute;n.)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Ocurrencias vuestras son;<br />
+&iquest;matar la luz... para qu&eacute;?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Seg&uacute;n las reglas seguras <a name="line_1145" id="line_1145"></a><span class="linenum">1145</span><br />
+de un autor que de eso trata,<br />
+siempre que la luz se mata<br />
+es... para quedarse a oscuras.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Esta noche est&aacute;is de humor.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;, porque volc&oacute; mi coche. <a name="line_1150" id="line_1150"></a><span class="linenum">1150</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Noto adem&aacute;s que esta noche,<br />
+Quevedo, est&aacute;is matador.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(S&iacute;; lo dice por Medina.)<br />
+&iquest;Ya sab&eacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Qu&eacute; duda cabe?</span><br />
+Todo en el mundo se sabe. <a name="line_1155" id="line_1155"></a><span class="linenum">1155</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues... y si no, se adivina.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Vos, seg&uacute;n llego a saber,<br />
+sois de un hombre el asesino.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Y por lo que yo adivino,<br />
+vos lo sois de una mujer. <a name="line_1160" id="line_1160"></a><span class="linenum">1160</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Vuestras pruebas &iquest;d&oacute;nde est&aacute;n?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y las vuestras?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Quedo, quedo;</span><br />
+dadme las vuestras, Quevedo.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Dadme las vuestras, Guzm&aacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y Medina?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Y la duquesa?</span><a name="line_1165" id="line_1165"></a><span class="linenum">1165</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+No nos entendemos pues.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+L&aacute;stima, l&aacute;stima es.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Mucho, por cierto, me pesa.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Tengo pruebas, y no en vano.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pues las tendremos los dos. <a name="line_1170" id="line_1170"></a><span class="linenum">1170</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y d&oacute;nde ten&eacute;islas vos?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Yo? Las tengo ya en mi mano.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Poni&eacute;ndola sobre la cruz de <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+La conserv&aacute;is tan cerrada...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Vaya, al seguir una pista,<br />
+como sois corto de vista, <a name="line_1175" id="line_1175"></a><span class="linenum">1175</span><br />
+nunca repar&aacute;is en nada.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; quer&eacute;is decir?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Os digo</span><br />
+que un hombre por vos fu&eacute; muerto.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Me dais pruebas?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Os lo advierto;</span><br />
+pruebas os dar&eacute; y castigo. <a name="line_1180" id="line_1180"></a><span class="linenum">1180</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> se encoge de hombros)</span><br />
+Escuchad con atenci&oacute;n:<br />
+siempre que es muerto un cristiano<br />
+al golpe de ajena mano,<br />
+sin hacer su confesi&oacute;n,<br />
+los vivos que en la infinita <a name="line_1185" id="line_1185"></a><span class="linenum">1185</span><br />
+bondad esperan con fe,<br />
+donde el hombre muerto fu&eacute;<br />
+clavan una cruz bendita.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Si no hall&aacute;is mejores modos<br />
+de probar...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Y esa cruz santa</span><a name="line_1190" id="line_1190"></a><span class="linenum">1190</span><br />
+l&uacute;gubre all&iacute; se levanta<br />
+para repetir a todos,<br />
+por tragedia tan cruel,<br />
+del cielo invocando el nombre:<br />
+&laquo;&iexcl;Aqu&iacute; mataron a un hombre... <a name="line_1195" id="line_1195"></a><span class="linenum">1195</span><br />
+rogad al cielo por &eacute;l!&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+A mi comprensi&oacute;n se escapa<br />
+vuestra idea, y... dadme luz,<br />
+porque esa cruz...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Esa cruz...</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(P&oacute;nesele delante de los ojos)</span><br />
+la llev&aacute;is en vuestra capa. <a name="line_1200" id="line_1200"></a><span class="linenum">1200</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (asiendo la capa con ambas manos)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; miro? &iexcl;Gran Dios!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">El dedo</span><br />
+de Dios sigue al que asesina.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Es la capa de Medina!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Hoy le asesin&oacute; Quevedo! (Pausa)<br />
+Pues ya mis pruebas os di, <a name="line_1205" id="line_1205"></a><span class="linenum">1205</span><br />
+a dar mis &oacute;rdenes voy.<br />
+&iexcl;Capit&aacute;n!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">&iexcl;Perdido estoy!</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA XI</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos y <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>, <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>; <span class="smcap">Grana</span> por el fondo; despu&eacute;s <span class="smcap">Capit&aacute;n</span><br />
+con guardia por la derecha<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA (entrando)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; diablos sucede aqu&iacute;?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Lleg&aacute;is a tiempo, se&ntilde;ores.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Dir&iacute;gese a la puerta de la derecha con impaciencia. Los otros</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">tres se miran con extra&ntilde;eza y encogi&eacute;ndose de hombros)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Su capa!... &iexcl;Cambio funesto!...<a name="line_1210" id="line_1210"></a><span class="linenum">1210</span><br />
+Me ha perdido.... Mas &iquest;qu&eacute; es esto?<br />
+En sus pliegues interiores... (Palp&aacute;ndola con af&aacute;n)<br />
+tiene un bolsillo... un papel.<br />
+Veamos...) (Le saca y lee)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Mucha atenci&oacute;n:</span><br />
+Capit&aacute;n, sin dilaci&oacute;n <a name="line_1215" id="line_1215"></a><span class="linenum">1215</span><br />
+prended a Quevedo.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Volvi&eacute;ndose de improviso y se&ntilde;alando a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> con la mano derecha, mientras</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">lee en voz alta el papel que tiene en la izquierda)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;A &eacute;l!...(Lee)</span><br />
+&laquo;A la infanta Margarita<br />
+dar&aacute;s hoy mismo...&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (lanz&aacute;ndose a &eacute;l)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Oh, callad!</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> completando la oraci&oacute;n)<br />
+<br />
+&laquo;La muerte.&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (al <span class="smcap">Capit&aacute;n</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Vos, apartad.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Y firm&aacute;is! (Se&ntilde;alando el papel)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iexcl;Carta maldita!)</span><a name="line_1220" id="line_1220"></a><span class="linenum">1220</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+(Cosas se ven singulares.)<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA (abalanz&aacute;ndose a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Quevedo!...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (id. a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Se&ntilde;or!...</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (deteni&eacute;ndole)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Templanza.</span><br />
+&iquest;Supon&eacute;is?... Todo fu&eacute; chanza...<br />
+chanza del buen Olivares....<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(A los dem&aacute;s)</span><br />
+Vos... ya lo veis... tiene d&iacute;as... <a name="line_1225" id="line_1225"></a><span class="linenum">1225</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Lleg&aacute;ndose de nuevo a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> y aparte, como lastim&aacute;ndose)</span><br />
+Casualidades siniestras...<br />
+por buscar las pruebas vuestras<br />
+fuisteis a dar con las m&iacute;as.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span> en el fondo hablan acaloradamente)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; intent&aacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Soy temerario.</span><br />
+&iquest;Y la infanta?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Vive.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Oh!</span><a name="line_1230" id="line_1230"></a><span class="linenum">1230</span><br />
+&iquest;Vive? (Se&ntilde;al afirmativa de <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">A tiempo mat&eacute; yo</span><br />
+a vuestro infernal sicario;<br />
+mas otro tal vez...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Lo juro:</span><br />
+vive en palacio y est&aacute;<br />
+presa y oculta... No, ya <a name="line_1235" id="line_1235"></a><span class="linenum">1235</span><br />
+seg&uacute;n mand&eacute;... de seguro<br />
+se la habr&aacute;n llevado...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;A d&oacute;nde?</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+A Oca&ntilde;a... No, no... de cierto<br />
+sabr&aacute; el capit&aacute;n...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Si ha muerto,</span><br />
+de ella este papel responde. <a name="line_1240" id="line_1240"></a><span class="linenum">1240</span><br />
+Ma&ntilde;ana... &iexcl;Ahora!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Volvi&eacute;ndose a los dem&aacute;s)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Escuchad!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (deteniendo a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> con terror)<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Vive, s&iacute;!)<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">(&iquest;Qu&eacute; podr&aacute; ser?)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Vive!)<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">&iquest;Nos vais a leer?...</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Nada... un soneto...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es verdad.</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Mejor, me place la idea. <a name="line_1245" id="line_1245"></a><span class="linenum">1245</span><br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA (aparte a <span class="smcap">Grana</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Yo me pierdo en conjeturas;<br />
+&iquest;qu&eacute; es esto?<br />
+<br />
+GRANA (id.)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Yo estoy a oscuras.</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Que se lea, que se lea.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Lo que me ped&iacute;s negu&eacute;<br />
+a Olivares ya, y por eso <a name="line_1250" id="line_1250"></a><span class="linenum">1250</span><br />
+trat&oacute; de ponerme preso...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Chanza...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Muy pesada, a fe.</span><br />
+Y yo, por tomar venganza,<br />
+mi soneto he de guardar.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+No nos deis ese pesar. <a name="line_1255" id="line_1255"></a><span class="linenum">1255</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Es que me asust&oacute; la chanza.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Por ella os pido perd&oacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Pues dad principio, Quevedo;<br />
+vamos, conceded...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Concedo...</span><br />
+mas con una condici&oacute;n: <a name="line_1260" id="line_1260"></a><span class="linenum">1260</span><br />
+pues que a prenderme ha venido,<br />
+aunque en chanza, el capit&aacute;n,<br />
+con los que a su mando van,<br />
+chanza tambi&eacute;n, muy erguido<br />
+marchar&aacute; luego ante m&iacute;, <a name="line_1265" id="line_1265"></a><span class="linenum">1265</span><br />
+d&aacute;ndome guardia de honor.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Brava ocurrencia.<br />
+<br />
+CAPIT&Aacute;N (a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Se&ntilde;or...?</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Capit&aacute;n, hacedlo as&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (al <span class="smcap">Capit&aacute;n</span>)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Lo entend&eacute;is?... Y con buen modo<br />
+que me obedezc&aacute;is espero <a name="line_1270" id="line_1270"></a><span class="linenum">1270</span><br />
+en todo y por todo...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Pero...</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (desdoblando el papel con aire amenazante)<br />
+<br />
+Conde-duque...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (al <span class="smcap">Capit&aacute;n</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">En todo, en todo.</span><br />
+<br />
+CAPIT&Aacute;N (a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Fiel obediencia os prometo.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues o&iacute;d.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Al punto, al punto.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (leyendo)<br />
+<br />
+&laquo;A... una... nariz.&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Bravo asunto.</span><a name="line_1275" id="line_1275"></a><a href="#note_1275"><span class="linenum">1275</span></a><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (aparte a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Y escuchadme bien. (A todos, leyendo)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&laquo;Soneto.&raquo;</span><br />
+<br />
+(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> se acerca a la luz al lado de <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>; los dem&aacute;s permanecen
+a cierta distancia. <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> leer&aacute; con lentitud y voz sonora los ocho
+versos del conocido soneto <i>A Una Nariz</i>, que est&aacute;n subrayados,
+diciendo a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> aparte y con el tono conveniente los intercalados
+en los dos cuartetos. Los otros, y en particular <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>,
+escuchan la lectura con gran contentamiento)<br />
+<br />
+<i>&Eacute;rase un hombre a una nariz pegado</i>;<br />
+Como al rey el privado que aqu&iacute; priva.<br />
+<i>&Eacute;rase una nariz superlativa</i>;<br />
+Como la audacia loca del privado.<a name="line_1280" id="line_1280"></a><a href="#note_1280"><span class="linenum">1280</span></a><br />
+<i>&Eacute;rase una nariz say&oacute;n y escriba</i>;<br />
+Est&aacute;is verde... amarillo... jaspeado.<br />
+<i>&Eacute;rase un peje-espada muy barbado</i>;<br />
+Os veis como un rat&oacute;n en una criba.<br />
+<i>Era un reloj de sol mal encarado</i>; <a name="line_1285" id="line_1285"></a><span class="linenum">1285</span><br />
+Como vos al tragar tanta saliva.<br />
+<i>&Eacute;rase una alquitara pensativa</i>;<br />
+De ver a un favorito... alquitarado.<br />
+<i>&Eacute;rase un elefante boca arriba</i>;<br />
+Como est&aacute;n hoy las cosas del estado. <a name="line_1290" id="line_1290"></a><a href="#note_1290"><span class="linenum">1290</span></a><br />
+<i>Era Ovidio Nas&oacute;n m&aacute;s narizado</i>.<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(En tono amenazante)</span><br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Rogad al cielo que la infanta viva!)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Vive!)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">(Si ha muerto, &iexcl;ay de vos!)</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Proseguid...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (volvi&eacute;ndose a los dem&aacute;s de improviso)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Torpe y confusa</span><br />
+mi cabeza, estoy sin musa. <a name="line_1295" id="line_1295"></a><span class="linenum">1295</span><br />
+<br />
+(En actitud y tono militar)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Capit&aacute;n, en marcha!... &iexcl;Adi&oacute;s!<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(A los dem&aacute;s con majestad grotesca al retirarse.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Vase por la derecha con la guardia)</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA XII</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Siempre alegre don Francisco.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Maldito de Dios su nombre!)<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Y al fin no acab&oacute; el soneto...<br />
+voto a Polimnia y Caliope... <a name="line_1300" id="line_1300"></a><span class="linenum">1300</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA (mirando a la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+Ya atraviesa con su guardia<br />
+los &uacute;ltimos corredores.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Dejarnos as&iacute;... por vida!...<br />
+Si es un torbellino ese hombre.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(No me burlar&aacute; ma&ntilde;ana <a name="line_1305" id="line_1305"></a><span class="linenum">1305</span><br />
+como me burl&oacute; esta noche.)<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+S&oacute;lo ocho versos nos dijo.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Y un soneto... da catorce.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA (a CASTILLA)<br />
+<br />
+Vos... &iquest;nada habl&aacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Nada, nada.</span><br />
+No quiero que me la corten. <a name="line_1310" id="line_1310"></a><span class="linenum">1310</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Se&ntilde;alando la lengua)</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Callad... prudencia.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">A Olivares</span><br />
+quiz&aacute;s la musa le sople<br />
+tambi&eacute;n, y... mejor; miradle,<br />
+por su actitud se conoce:<br />
+quiere dar fin al soneto, <a name="line_1315" id="line_1315"></a><span class="linenum">1315</span><br />
+y discurre el estrambote.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Ma&ntilde;ana ser&aacute; otro d&iacute;a!)<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Silencio, atenci&oacute;n, se&ntilde;ores.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Hacia aqu&iacute; la reina sale.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(Largas son sus oraciones.) <a name="line_1320" id="line_1320"></a><span class="linenum">1320</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA XIII</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos y <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>, que sale de la capilla apoy&aacute;ndose en <span class="smcap">Do&ntilde;a In&eacute;s</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Es verdad, me siento d&eacute;bil,<br />
+d&eacute;bil, cual nunca, esta noche.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Reparando en ellos)</span><br />
+&iquest;Aun est&aacute;is aqu&iacute;?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Se&ntilde;ora,</span><br />
+nuestro deber nos lo impone.<br />
+Antes con luces servimos <a name="line_1325" id="line_1325"></a><span class="linenum">1325</span><br />
+a la reina, y como entonces,<br />
+bien que sin luces, estamos<br />
+prontos a cumplir sus &oacute;rdenes.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Todos se inclinan. <span class="smcap">La Reina</span> escucha con distracci&oacute;n)</span><br />
+Como veis, solo, se&ntilde;ora,<br />
+de entre tantos servidores <a name="line_1330" id="line_1330"></a><span class="linenum">1330</span><br />
+falta vuestro caballero...<br />
+y, por Dios, que anduvo torpe,<br />
+que el honor de dar la mano<br />
+a una reina hermosa y joven<br />
+ni un gal&aacute;n lo cede nunca, <a name="line_1335" id="line_1335"></a><span class="linenum">1335</span><br />
+ni jam&aacute;s lo olvida un noble.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Basta ya... basta, Olivares.<br />
+<br />
+IN&Eacute;S<br />
+<br />
+Es hora de que repose<br />
+vuesa Majestad.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Pues disteis</span><br />
+fin a vuestras devociones <a name="line_1340" id="line_1340"></a><span class="linenum">1340</span><br />
+deb&eacute;is descansar....<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es cierto.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Tristes ser&aacute;n vuestras noches!<br />
+<br />
+REINA (sin o&iacute;rle)<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Oh, la infanta Margarita<br />
+dicen que vino a la corte!...)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(Dirigi&eacute;ndose a su c&aacute;mara)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Permitidnos...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No, quedaos.</span><a name="line_1345" id="line_1345"></a><span class="linenum">1345</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Todos se inclinan. <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span> hablan para s&iacute;;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">Olivares</span> contempla con una sonrisa a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>, que se encamina</span>lentamente a su c&aacute;mara)<br />
+(&iquest;Qui&eacute;n la detiene y en d&oacute;nde?<br />
+&iexcl;Cu&aacute;nto consuelo hallar&iacute;an<br />
+juntos nuestros corazones!...<br />
+Margarita... &iexcl;alma sublime!...<br />
+&iexcl;Cu&aacute;l mis acerbos dolores <a name="line_1350" id="line_1350"></a><span class="linenum">1350</span><br />
+calmar&iacute;a! &Eacute;l nos separa...<br />
+&iexcl;Dios su maldad le perdone!)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA &Uacute;LTIMA</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos y <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>; despu&eacute;s <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> y guardia<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Hoy de vuesa Majestad<br />
+una audiencia solicita...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">La infanta Margarita.</span><a name="line_1355" id="line_1355"></a><span class="linenum">1355</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Introduci&eacute;ndola de la mano seguida de la guardia)</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Gran Dios! (Precipit&aacute;ndose en sus brazos)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (id.)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Qu&eacute; felicidad!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Ella!... &iexcl;Aun estaba en palacio!)<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Soy feliz!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Te he vuelto a ver!...</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Pero &iquest;c&oacute;mo, c&oacute;mo?<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ayer...</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Reparando en <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)</span><br />
+Todo lo sabr&aacute;s despacio. <a name="line_1360" id="line_1360"></a><span class="linenum">1360</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">La Reina</span> conducida por <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> se dirige a su c&aacute;mara por entre</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">los guardias, que les abren paso, y seguidas de <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Castilla</span></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">y <span class="smcap">Grana</span>, que las acompa&ntilde;an hasta la puerta)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> con sarcasmo)<br />
+<br />
+Prevenidla con af&aacute;n<br />
+flores, festejos y galas...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(Yo le cortar&eacute; las alas.)<br />
+(&iexcl;Oh, su prisi&oacute;n!...) &iexcl;Capit&aacute;n!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pajes prevenidla y coches. <a name="line_1365" id="line_1365"></a><span class="linenum">1365</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (al <span class="smcap">Capit&aacute;n</span>)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Llevad!...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Soneto.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Desdoblando un papel y con el aire m&aacute;s natural)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iexcl;Oh, me espanta!)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (al <span class="smcap">Capit&aacute;n</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Guardia de honor a la infanta.<br />
+Conde-duque, buenas noches.<br />
+<br />
+Fin del Acto Segundo<br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="ACTO_TERCERO" id="ACTO_TERCERO"></a>ACTO TERCERO</h2>
+
+<p class="center">La decoraci&oacute;n del anterior</p>
+
+
+<p class="noind"><br /><br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA PRIMERA</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Un mes ya!... Tan largo plazo<br />
+para jornada tan corta... <a name="line_1370" id="line_1370"></a><span class="linenum">1370</span><br />
+La tardanza de Quevedo<br />
+me desconcierta y me asombra.<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; podr&iacute;a ser? El camino<br />
+desde Madrid a Lisboa<br />
+no es hoy seguro, y acaso... <a name="line_1375" id="line_1375"></a><span class="linenum">1375</span><br />
+Vagas sospechas me acosan:<br />
+vengativo el conde-duque,<br />
+nunca olvida ni perdona;<br />
+y si a su fin le conducen,<br />
+poco los medios le importan. <a name="line_1380" id="line_1380"></a><span class="linenum">1380</span><br />
+En el mundo hay asesinos<br />
+que con el oro se compran...<br />
+Olivares es malvado...<br />
+Tal vez Quevedo a estas horas...<br />
+&iexcl;Oh, Dios m&iacute;o!... Dios lo sabe. <a name="line_1385" id="line_1385"></a><span class="linenum">1385</span><br />
+Nunca fu&iacute; supersticiosa;<br />
+pero esta idea terrible<br />
+es un dogal que me ahoga.<br />
+Varonil y fuerte, nunca<br />
+tembl&eacute; de terror... y ahora <a name="line_1390" id="line_1390"></a><span class="linenum">1390</span><br />
+al pensar en &eacute;l &iexcl;ay! tiemblo<br />
+como en el &aacute;rbol la hoja...<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; pasa por m&iacute;?... &iexcl;Quevedo...<br />
+siempre fijo en mi memoria!<br />
+&iexcl;Oh, la gratitud... sin duda!... <a name="line_1395" id="line_1395"></a><span class="linenum">1395</span><br />
+No puede ser otra cosa...<br />
+&iexcl;Cierto! La altiva duquesa<br />
+Margarita de Saboya<br />
+que no conoci&oacute; en su vida<br />
+m&aacute;s voluntad que la propia; <a name="line_1400" id="line_1400"></a><span class="linenum">1400</span><br />
+la que nunca dominada<br />
+siempre fu&eacute; dominadora,<br />
+con su voluntad de hierro<br />
+y su coraz&oacute;n de roca;<br />
+esa mujer... soberana, <a name="line_1405" id="line_1405"></a><span class="linenum">1405</span><br />
+con su altivez por corona,<br />
+siempre es la misma, la misma...<br />
+No... delante de &eacute;l es otra...<br />
+otra, s&iacute;.... Nadie en el mundo<br />
+logr&oacute; lo que ese hombre logra....<a name="line_1410" id="line_1410"></a><span class="linenum">1410</span><br />
+Quevedo &iexcl;ay, Dios! me fascina....<br />
+Jam&aacute;s... &iquest;Qu&eacute; digo? &iexcl;Estoy loca!<br />
+No, delante de Quevedo<br />
+mis mejillas se coloran<br />
+y mis ojos se humedecen <a name="line_1415" id="line_1415"></a><span class="linenum">1415</span><br />
+y mi mente se trastorna...<br />
+&iexcl;S&iacute;... siempre al sentir sus pasos<br />
+tembl&eacute;!... como tiemblo ahora<br />
+sin sentirlos... sin sentirlos...<br />
+No... los siento en mi memoria. <a name="line_1420" id="line_1420"></a><span class="linenum">1420</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA II</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Margarita</span> y <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>, que sale de su c&aacute;mara<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Margarita...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Oh! &iquest;Me buscabas?</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;, y el hallarte tan sola<br />
+me sorprende. &iexcl;T&uacute; llorando!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo!<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">&iexcl;T&uacute; que nunca lloras!</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Qu&eacute; ilusi&oacute;n!... T&uacute; lo dijiste: <a name="line_1425" id="line_1425"></a><span class="linenum">1425</span><br />
+nunca del llanto las gotas<br />
+por mis mejillas corrieron.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Plegue a Dios que nunca corran!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Yo as&iacute; lo espero... las l&aacute;grimas<br />
+siempre son infructuosas. <a name="line_1430" id="line_1430"></a><span class="linenum">1430</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+El llanto calma las penas.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+El valor triunfa de todas.<br />
+En eso mismo pensaba<br />
+cuando llegaste. La hora<br />
+de vencer a la desgracia <a name="line_1435" id="line_1435"></a><span class="linenum">1435</span><br />
+se acerca para nosotras.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Loca esperanza.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Qu&eacute; dices?</span><br />
+Si hoy mismo Quevedo torna,<br />
+para triunfar de Olivares,<br />
+armas traer&aacute; de Lisboa. <a name="line_1440" id="line_1440"></a><span class="linenum">1440</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Esas armas...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Son seguras,</span><br />
+y han de darnos la victoria,<br />
+descubriendo del ministro<br />
+las maquinaciones sordas.<br />
+Bien lo sabes: Portugal, <a name="line_1445" id="line_1445"></a><a href="#note_1445"><span class="linenum">1445</span></a><br />
+antes provincia espa&ntilde;ola,<br />
+se hizo reino independiente,<br />
+siendo yo gobernadora;<br />
+que no fu&eacute; por culpa m&iacute;a<br />
+bien en mis despachos consta. <a name="line_1450" id="line_1450"></a><span class="linenum">1450</span><br />
+Con tiempo avis&eacute; el peligro<br />
+y ped&iacute; dinero y tropas;<br />
+pero sordo el conde-duque<br />
+a mis peticiones todas,<br />
+juzg&oacute; sue&ntilde;os mis temores, <a name="line_1455" id="line_1455"></a><span class="linenum">1455</span><br />
+me crey&oacute; d&eacute;bil o loca.<br />
+Pues bien, ya que la experiencia,<br />
+aunque por mi mal, me abona,<br />
+por las cartas de Olivares,<br />
+llenas para el rey de mofa, <a name="line_1460" id="line_1460"></a><span class="linenum">1460</span><br />
+sabr&aacute; el rey que ese ministro<br />
+con esc&aacute;ndalo de Europa,<br />
+necio o traidor, ha vendido<br />
+un joyel de su corona.<br />
+Quevedo hallar&aacute; esas cartas <a name="line_1465" id="line_1465"></a><span class="linenum">1465</span><br />
+que ocultas dej&eacute; en Lisboa.<br />
+&iexcl;Una sola puede darnos<br />
+venganza terrible y pronta!<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Me haces temblar.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">El malvado,</span><br />
+por dar fin a sus zozobras, <a name="line_1470" id="line_1470"></a><span class="linenum">1470</span><br />
+quiso asesinarme...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Cielos!...</span><br />
+no recuerdes esa historia.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;, y a no ser por Quevedo,<br />
+que brot&oacute; de entre la sombra,<br />
+el sicario de Olivares... <a name="line_1475" id="line_1475"></a><span class="linenum">1475</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+&iquest;Y a qu&eacute; recordarlo ahora?<br />
+Vives y est&aacute;s a mi lado...<br />
+Ya Olivares no lo estorba...<br />
+&iexcl;Oh! tal vez arrepentido<br />
+ya de su acci&oacute;n se sonroja... <a name="line_1480" id="line_1480"></a><span class="linenum">1480</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Le conoces mal.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Con todo,</span><br />
+de ello responden sus obras.<br />
+El es el rey... y en palacio<br />
+desde aquella noche moras,<br />
+y hace un mes que el de Olivares <a name="line_1485" id="line_1485"></a><span class="linenum">1485</span><br />
+te consagra sus lisonjas,<br />
+te distingue...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Y, sin embargo,</span><br />
+en su coraz&oacute;n me odia.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y c&oacute;mo explicar?...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Quevedo,</span><br />
+al partir para Lisboa, <a name="line_1490" id="line_1490"></a><span class="linenum">1490</span><br />
+ense&ntilde;&aacute;ndole un papel,<br />
+le dijo con risa ir&oacute;nica:<br />
+&laquo;Pues con vos queda la infanta<br />
+Margarita de Saboya,<br />
+conmigo va este soneto <a name="line_1495" id="line_1495"></a><span class="linenum">1495</span><br />
+para que de ella responda.&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+No comprendo...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">De mi vida</span><br />
+&eacute;l responde con la propia;<br />
+tiene las manos atadas,<br />
+y si, al fin, Quevedo torna, <a name="line_1500" id="line_1500"></a><span class="linenum">1500</span><br />
+la ruina del favorito<br />
+ser&aacute; inevitable y pronta.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; intentas?<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Salvar a Espa&ntilde;a</span><br />
+de un yugo que la deshonra,<br />
+comprar tambi&eacute;n el castigo <a name="line_1505" id="line_1505"></a><span class="linenum">1505</span><br />
+del tirano...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Si es a costa</span><br />
+de mi eterna desventura,<br />
+caro su castigo compras.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh! &iquest;Qu&eacute; dices?<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">La esperanza</span><br />
+jam&aacute;s al triste abandona, <a name="line_1510" id="line_1510"></a><span class="linenum">1510</span><br />
+y yo en mi delirio a veces<br />
+aun espero ser dichosa.<br />
+Solo hay un medio: Olivares<br />
+con intenci&oacute;n cautelosa<br />
+guarda ese escrito sangriento <a name="line_1515" id="line_1515"></a><span class="linenum">1515</span><br />
+en que mi inocencia consta...<br />
+Y en m&iacute; tomar&aacute; venganza<br />
+si t&uacute; su rencor provocas,<br />
+aniquilando ese escrito,<br />
+que es &iexcl;ay! mi esperanza sola. <a name="line_1520" id="line_1520"></a><span class="linenum">1520</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Calla, calla!<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Margarita,</span><br />
+t&uacute;, tan buena y generosa,<br />
+no har&aacute;s uso de tus armas<br />
+si han de volverse en mi contra.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; dices? Espa&ntilde;a sufre... <a name="line_1525" id="line_1525"></a><span class="linenum">1525</span><br />
+Dios en mis manos coloca<br />
+su remedio... Antes que todo<br />
+es esta naci&oacute;n heroica.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y tu amor?<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">El mismo siempre.</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Salva mi vida y mi honra! <a name="line_1530" id="line_1530"></a><span class="linenum">1530</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Despu&eacute;s...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;Ay, ser&aacute; muy tarde!</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Gran Dios, mis fuerzas se agotan!<br />
+&iexcl;No puedo m&aacute;s!)<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Margarita,</span><br />
+t&uacute; ser&aacute;s mi salvadora.<br />
+El castigo de Olivares <a name="line_1535" id="line_1535"></a><span class="linenum">1535</span><br />
+puede aplazarse y...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Qu&eacute; importa</span><br />
+si en tanto ese hombre...?...&iexcl;Imposible!<br />
+La corte y Espa&ntilde;a toda<br />
+sufren su tirano yugo<br />
+y sus desafueros lloran. <a name="line_1540" id="line_1540"></a><span class="linenum">1540</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Hombre fatal!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Por su causa</span><br />
+la Espa&ntilde;a, terror de Europa<br />
+y del mundo en otro tiempo,<br />
+duerme en el olvido ahora.<br />
+Por &eacute;l lloramos perdidas <a name="line_1545" id="line_1545"></a><span class="linenum">1545</span><br />
+tantas conquistas gloriosas,<br />
+unas al hierro entregadas,<br />
+y al oro vendidas otras.<br />
+M&aacute;s de trescientos nav&iacute;os<br />
+tragaron del mar las olas <a name="line_1550" id="line_1550"></a><a href="#note_1550"><span class="linenum">1550</span></a><br />
+por &eacute;l, y por &eacute;l perdimos<br />
+a Esthin, Wiranzan y Dola,<br />
+y a m&aacute;s las Islas Terceras,<br />
+y el Ducado de Borgo&ntilde;a<br />
+y el Brasil y el Rosell&oacute;n, <a name="line_1555" id="line_1555"></a><a href="#note_1555"><span class="linenum">1555</span></a><br />
+y Ormuz, Pernambuco y Hoa!...<br />
+Y no ha mucho Portugal,<br />
+siendo yo gobernadora,<br />
+por su rey al de Braganza<br />
+coron&oacute; en Villaviciosa... <a name="line_1560" id="line_1560"></a><a href="#note_1560"><span class="linenum">1560</span></a><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Calla! (Mirando hacia la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA III</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichas y <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Grana</span> y <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>, que entran muy<br />
+engolfados en su conversaci&oacute;n por la derecha. Al verlos <span class="smcap">la Reina</span> se<br />
+va retirando hacia su c&aacute;mara acompa&ntilde;ada de <span class="smcap">Margarita</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Sabr&eacute; qui&eacute;n ha sido.</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Mejor, morir&aacute; en la horca!<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+(Pi&eacute;nsalo bien.)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Hasta luego.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">La Reina</span> entra en su c&aacute;mara; <span class="smcap">Margarita</span></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">la contempla con expresi&oacute;n de ternura)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Fu&eacute; s&oacute;lo un susto.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No importa.</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Mejor, mejor.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Mas la infanta...</span><a name="line_1565" id="line_1565"></a><span class="linenum">1565</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;La infanta?... Mejor.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Todos saludan a <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, que va acerc&aacute;ndose hacia ellos)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Se&ntilde;ora...</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+P&aacute;lido est&aacute;is, Conde-duque.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+No es para menos la cosa.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Pues &iquest;qu&eacute; ha habido?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Nada, nada.</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Un disparo a quemarropa! <a name="line_1570" id="line_1570"></a><span class="linenum">1570</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Bien, no me ha herido.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mejor.</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Conde-duque, estoy absorta.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+No nos ocupemos de ello. (A los tres)<br />
+Sobre asuntos de m&aacute;s monta<br />
+tengo que hablar a su alteza; <a name="line_1575" id="line_1575"></a><span class="linenum">1575</span><br />
+conque... dejadnos a solas....<br />
+Hasta despu&eacute;s. (Salud&aacute;ndolos)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Los tres se inclinan y vanse por la derecha)</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (march&aacute;ndose)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Despacito</span><br />
+voy a examinar ahora<br />
+el estrago que las balas<br />
+hicieron en su carroza. <a name="line_1580" id="line_1580"></a><span class="linenum">1580</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA IV</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, <span class="smcap">Olivares</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Conde-duque, mal os quieren.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Vos interpret&aacute;is las cosas<br />
+de una manera... Ese tiro<br />
+fu&eacute; casualidad, se&ntilde;ora.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Eso pens&aacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Qui&eacute;n lo duda?</span><a name="line_1585" id="line_1585"></a><a href="#note_1585"><span class="linenum">1585</span></a><br />
+En honor a mi persona,<br />
+como siempre, en las Salinas<br />
+hizo una salva la tropa...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Si hay plomo en los arcabuces,<br />
+las salvas son peligrosas. <a name="line_1590" id="line_1590"></a><span class="linenum">1590</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Nada tem&aacute;is.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">No os conviene</span><br />
+gastar en salvas la p&oacute;lvora.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+La torpeza de un biso&ntilde;o<br />
+no nos debe causar zozobra.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+No; mas tened vos en cuenta <a name="line_1595" id="line_1595"></a><span class="linenum">1595</span><br />
+que hay mucha gente biso&ntilde;a.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Vivid tranquila: las balas<br />
+no han de quemarme la ropa.<br />
+Para tiros m&aacute;s seguros<br />
+pienso prevenir mi cota. <a name="line_1600" id="line_1600"></a><span class="linenum">1600</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Otros tem&eacute;is, Conde-duque?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Certeros y de arma sorda:<br />
+son los tiros de la infanta<br />
+Margarita de Saboya...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh! Pues diz que ella dispara <a name="line_1605" id="line_1605"></a><span class="linenum">1605</span><br />
+siempre al coraz&oacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Hay otras</span><br />
+opiniones.... Diz que apunta,<br />
+y al tirar... tiembla o perdona.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Mal la conoc&eacute;is.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Con todo,</span><br />
+un mes hace por ahora <a name="line_1610" id="line_1610"></a><span class="linenum">1610</span><br />
+que a mi privanza la guerra<br />
+declar&oacute; en debida forma,<br />
+y hasta el presente no he visto<br />
+las hostilidades rotas...<br />
+y es que en ausencia de Marte <a name="line_1615" id="line_1615"></a><a href="#note_1615"><span class="linenum">1615</span></a><br />
+duerme, sin duda, Belona.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Los plazos al fin se cumplen;<br />
+las deudas al fin se cobran.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Yo, a la verdad, no comprendo<br />
+c&oacute;mo os est&aacute;is tan ociosa. <a name="line_1620" id="line_1620"></a><span class="linenum">1620</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Vos lo hab&eacute;is dicho: le aguardo.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Ya... no os atrev&eacute;is vos sola...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;A todo!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">&iquest;Pues qu&eacute; os detiene?</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Ten&eacute;is preguntas muy hondas.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Conque le aguard&aacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Le aguardo</span><a name="line_1625" id="line_1625"></a><span class="linenum">1625</span><br />
+como el labrador la aurora.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y si acaso no volviese?<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Gran Dios!)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">La fortuna es loca,</span><br />
+y a veces por sus caprichos<br />
+el plan m&aacute;s h&aacute;bil aborta, <a name="line_1630" id="line_1630"></a><span class="linenum">1630</span><br />
+y se pierden como el humo<br />
+las m&aacute;s diestras maniobras.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;La justicia triunfa siempre!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Cuando el ardid no lo estorba;<br />
+bien lo sab&eacute;is.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Conde-duque,</span><a name="line_1635" id="line_1635"></a><span class="linenum">1635</span><br />
+s&eacute; que hay pu&ntilde;ales.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(!Oh, llora!)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Pero s&eacute; tambi&eacute;n, y acaso<br />
+lo debo a vuestra persona,<br />
+que una espada de buen temple<br />
+para cien pu&ntilde;ales sobra. <a name="line_1640" id="line_1640"></a><span class="linenum">1640</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Pues no aguard&eacute;is a Quevedo!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Oh, Virgen... misericordia!)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA V</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos y <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> por la derecha y en traje de camino<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Aqu&iacute; estoy porque he venido.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(!Oh, furor!)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (mirando al cielo y con las manos juntas)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">!Gracias, Se&ntilde;ora!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Vos, don Francisco...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Acabad;</span><a name="line_1645" id="line_1645"></a><span class="linenum">1645</span><br />
+Quevedo y Villegas....<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Pues</span><br />
+caballero santiagu&eacute;s...<br />
+gracias...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Al diablo.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es verdad.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Y a la cruz, y a todos pago:<br />
+que si de Santiago soy <a name="line_1650" id="line_1650"></a><span class="linenum">1650</span><br />
+caballero, gracias doy...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;, a Medina.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">No, a Santiago.</span><br />
+Al tornar de mi viaje,<br />
+por veniros pronto a ver,<br />
+no me quise detener <a name="line_1655" id="line_1655"></a><span class="linenum">1655</span><br />
+ni aun para cambiar de traje.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Mucho estimo tal fineza.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Se&ntilde;ora... (Reparando en <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(A <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;P&aacute;lida est&aacute;!...</span><br />
+Si un ultraje...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ella os dir&aacute;.</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Adi&oacute;s.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Servir&eacute; a su Alteza.</span><a name="line_1660" id="line_1660"></a><span class="linenum">1660</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Acomp&aacute;&ntilde;ala hasta la puerta)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (aparte a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y bien?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Nuestra es la jornada.</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Vienen los papeles?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;;</span><br />
+mas no vienen sobre m&iacute;<br />
+por temor de una emboscada.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Bien... La reina est&aacute; mortal... <a name="line_1665" id="line_1665"></a><span class="linenum">1665</span><br />
+Teme...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Con raz&oacute;n, a fe.</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+!Salvadla!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">La salvar&eacute;.</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (despu&eacute;s de despedirse)<br />
+<br />
+(Tiene un alma celestial.)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA VI</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, <span class="smcap">Olivares</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (contempl&aacute;ndola al partir)<br />
+<br />
+(&iquest;Es mujer o es ilusi&oacute;n?<br />
+&iexcl;Oh, por ella, con fe p&iacute;a <a name="line_1670" id="line_1670"></a><span class="linenum">1670</span><br />
+gota a gota verter&iacute;a<br />
+la sangre del coraz&oacute;n!)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Vive Dios que est&aacute; despacio!)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(P&oacute;nele la mano sobre el hombro)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n?...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Tan ce&ntilde;udo y suspenso</span><br />
+&iquest;qu&eacute; es lo que pens&aacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No pienso;</span><a name="line_1675" id="line_1675"></a><span class="linenum">1675</span><br />
+nunca se piensa... en palacio.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pues &iquest;qu&eacute; hac&iacute;ais de ese modo?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Repasaba mi memoria<br />
+cierta peregrina historia.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;De amores?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Tiene de todo.</span><a name="line_1680" id="line_1680"></a><span class="linenum">1680</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Ser&aacute; entretenida?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Oh, mucho!</span><br />
+&iquest;Quer&eacute;is la historia saber?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Me ser&aacute; de gran placer.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues escuchadme.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Os escucho.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&Eacute;ranse un rey muy celoso <a name="line_1685" id="line_1685"></a><a href="#note_1685"><span class="linenum">1685</span></a><br />
+y una reina muy hermosa;<br />
+la reina del rey esposa,<br />
+y el rey... de la reina esposo.<br />
+Y as&iacute; unidos ante Dios,<br />
+como a un &aacute;rbol dos ra&iacute;ces, <a name="line_1690" id="line_1690"></a><span class="linenum">1690</span><br />
+eran los dos muy felices,<br />
+porque se amaban los dos.<br />
+<br />
+Pero un hombre... un favorito...<br />
+que en la dicha y el poder<br />
+solo ambicionaba ser...<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Movimiento de <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)</span><br />
+O&iacute;d: ese hombre maldito,<br />
+por influir sin rival<br />
+del rey en el coraz&oacute;n,<br />
+alz&oacute; de infamia un padr&oacute;n<br />
+entre la pareja real: <a name="line_1700" id="line_1700"></a><span class="linenum">1700</span><br />
+con habilidad cruel...<br />
+le hizo muy h&aacute;bil su estrella...<br />
+mintiendo culpas en ella,<br />
+encendi&oacute; celos en &eacute;l.<br />
+Y el rey maldijo en sus celos <a name="line_1705" id="line_1705"></a><span class="linenum">1705</span><br />
+a la reina por impura,<br />
+y la reina era tan pura<br />
+como un &aacute;ngel de los cielos.<br />
+Y desde entonces los dos<br />
+no se han vuelto a unir jam&aacute;s, <a name="line_1710" id="line_1710"></a><span class="linenum">1710</span><br />
+y &eacute;l vive... triste quiz&aacute;s,<br />
+y ella... dudando de Dios.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Permitidme que os ataje;<br />
+porque o miente mi memoria<br />
+o vos, al contar la historia, <a name="line_1715" id="line_1715"></a><span class="linenum">1715</span><br />
+olvid&aacute;is un personaje.<br />
+Y esa historia me cont&oacute;<br />
+no s&eacute; qui&eacute;n, c&oacute;mo ni d&oacute;nde,<br />
+y anda en ella cierto conde...<br />
+el amante.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;No!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;S&iacute;!</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;No!</span><a name="line_1720" id="line_1720"></a><span class="linenum">1720</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+De ese buen conde afirmaron<br />
+que con la reina le vieron<br />
+amante feliz...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mintieron.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pues as&iacute; me lo contaron.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Yo os lo contar&eacute; mejor. <a name="line_1725" id="line_1725"></a><span class="linenum">1725</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+El conde a la reina amaba.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pero la reina ignoraba<br />
+su desatinado amor.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y qui&eacute;n lo podr&aacute; probar?...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Hay una prueba sangrienta... <a name="line_1730" id="line_1730"></a><span class="linenum">1730</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Como nadie la presenta...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+No la quieren presentar.<br />
+Escuchadme: el favorito<br />
+que a la reina calumni&oacute;,<br />
+tal delito coron&oacute; <a name="line_1735" id="line_1735"></a><span class="linenum">1735</span><br />
+con otro nuevo delito.<br />
+Sabedor de la verdad<br />
+el conde, s&oacute;lo pod&iacute;a<br />
+poner en claro alg&uacute;n d&iacute;a<br />
+tan cobarde iniquidad. <a name="line_1740" id="line_1740"></a><span class="linenum">1740</span><br />
+Era un testigo harto fiel....<br />
+Pero ya resuelto a todo,<br />
+hall&oacute; el favorito modo<br />
+para deshacerse de &eacute;l.<br />
+Y al pie del alc&aacute;zar real <a name="line_1745" id="line_1745"></a><span class="linenum">1745</span><br />
+diz que una noche a traici&oacute;n<br />
+pas&oacute; al conde el coraz&oacute;n...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;, una espada.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;No, un pu&ntilde;al!</span><br />
+&iquest;Lo o&iacute;s?... Para haza&ntilde;as tales<br />
+no presta el valor espadas... <a name="line_1750" id="line_1750"></a><span class="linenum">1750</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Mas...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Para muertes compradas</span><br />
+la traici&oacute;n vende pu&ntilde;ales.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Basta.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">O&iacute;d: al expirar</span><br />
+el conde escribi&oacute; un papel<br />
+con sangre... Vengo por &eacute;l. <a name="line_1755" id="line_1755"></a><span class="linenum">1755</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Y me le vais a dar.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Nunca!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">S&iacute;, s&iacute;, por quien soy...(Saca un papel)</span><br />
+de ella esta firma responde...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pero...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;El escrito del conde!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (Despu&eacute;s de un momento y se&ntilde;alando con timidez<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">el papel de <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+Dadme &eacute;se en cambio.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (Despu&eacute;s de un movimiento de extra&ntilde;eza y con tono despreciativo)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Os le doy.</span><a name="line_1760" id="line_1760"></a><span class="linenum">1760</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Me le dais?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Lo dije ya.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (dirigi&eacute;ndose a la izquierda)<br />
+<br />
+Vuelvo...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Sin &eacute;ste... lo s&eacute;...</span><br />
+ya sin armas quedar&eacute;;<br />
+mas &iquest;qu&eacute; importa?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Bien est&aacute;.(Vase)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Entre hacer el bien del bueno <a name="line_1765" id="line_1765"></a><span class="linenum">1765</span><br />
+y el mal del malo, dudara<br />
+s&oacute;lo un hombre que abrigara<br />
+ese coraz&oacute;n de cieno.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA VII</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>; despu&eacute;s <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span>, que entran por la<br />
+derecha y vuelven a salir por el fondo, izquierda<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Bravo, coraz&oacute;n, muy bien!<br />
+Estoy contento de ti. <a name="line_1770" id="line_1770"></a><span class="linenum">1770</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Mirando a la derecha)</span><br />
+Mas... &iexcl;que a punto siempre est&eacute;n<br />
+los necios!... Si ahora me ven<br />
+no podr&eacute; echarlos de m&iacute;. (Se oculta)<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (entrando con los otros dos)<br />
+<br />
+Conde-duque... Pues no est&aacute;.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Sin duda en aquellas salas.... <a name="line_1775" id="line_1775"></a><span class="linenum">1775</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Vamos a buscarle all&aacute;.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Pues con eso nos dir&aacute;<br />
+c&oacute;mo le suenan las balas. (Vanse)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+No me han visto. Es fuerte apuro<br />
+que me hayan de perseguir <a name="line_1780" id="line_1780"></a><span class="linenum">1780</span><br />
+necios siempre, y de seguro<br />
+con este infame conjuro:<br />
+&laquo;Quevedo, hacednos re&iacute;r.&raquo;<br />
+Y es, por Dios, contraste horrendo<br />
+y aun viceversa nefando, <a name="line_1785" id="line_1785"></a><span class="linenum">1785</span><br />
+y hasta sarcasmo estupendo,<br />
+que ellos escuchen riendo<br />
+lo que yo digo rabiando.<br />
+Tal vez, porque se desv&iacute;en,<br />
+suelto un chiste insulso y fr&iacute;o... <a name="line_1790" id="line_1790"></a><span class="linenum">1790</span><br />
+mas de gusto se desl&iacute;en,<br />
+y tanto a voces se r&iacute;en,<br />
+que al fin... yo tambi&eacute;n me r&iacute;o.<br />
+Risas hay de Lucifer,<br />
+risas pre&ntilde;adas de horror..., <a name="line_1795" id="line_1795"></a><span class="linenum">1795</span><br />
+que en nuestro mezquino ser,<br />
+como su llanto el placer,<br />
+tiene su risa el dolor.<br />
+Necios, los que abr&iacute;s las bocas,<br />
+abrid los ojos... quiz&aacute;s <a name="line_1800" id="line_1800"></a><span class="linenum">1800</span><br />
+ver&eacute;is que mis risas locas<br />
+son de l&aacute;stima no pocas,<br />
+y de tedio las dem&aacute;s....<br />
+&iexcl;No! Con su chata raz&oacute;n<br />
+no comprenden, cosa es clara, <a name="line_1805" id="line_1805"></a><span class="linenum">1805</span><br />
+que mis chistes gotas son<br />
+de la hiel del coraz&oacute;n<br />
+que les escupo a la cara.<br />
+Y jam&aacute;s librarme puedo<br />
+de ese infernal retint&iacute;n <a name="line_1810" id="line_1810"></a><span class="linenum">1810</span><br />
+que ya me produce miedo:<br />
+&laquo;Divertidnos vos, Quevedo.&raquo;<br />
+Y hablo... y los divierto al fin.<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; tal? &laquo;Me divierto mucho&raquo;,<br />
+dice, al divertirse, un bicho <a name="line_1815" id="line_1815"></a><span class="linenum">1815</span><br />
+ya en diversiones muy ducho...<br />
+Y &iexcl;con qu&eacute; temblor lo escucho!...<br />
+yo que en mi vida lo he dicho....<br />
+S&iacute;... los necios de mil modos<br />
+que se diviertan, discurro <a name="line_1820" id="line_1820"></a><span class="linenum">1820</span><br />
+hasta por cogote y codos.<br />
+Y yo al divertirse todos,<br />
+siempre me canso y me aburro. (Pausa)<br />
+Cansado estoy de cansarme<br />
+y aburrido de aburrirme... <a name="line_1825" id="line_1825"></a><span class="linenum">1825</span><br />
+&iexcl;Necios, venid a ense&ntilde;arme<br />
+c&oacute;mo tengo de arreglarme<br />
+para saber divertirme!<br />
+Y si en torno hasta el morir<br />
+s&oacute;lo necios me he de hallar <a name="line_1830" id="line_1830"></a><span class="linenum">1830</span><br />
+y con necios sonre&iacute;r<br />
+y entre necios divertir,<br />
+viendo a los necios bailar:<br />
+padre Ad&aacute;n,... tu parentela<br />
+mire yo en corro infinito, <a name="line_1835" id="line_1835"></a><a href="#note_1835"><span class="linenum">1835</span></a><br />
+a la luz de una pajuela,<br />
+bailando la tarantela...<br />
+pues... &iexcl;y el baile de San Vito!...<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA VIII</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, <span class="smcap">Olivares</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (d&aacute;ndole un papel)<br />
+<br />
+Carta p&oacute;stuma, Quevedo.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Despu&eacute;s de mirarla por todos lados y entregando a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> el otro)</span><br />
+<br />
+Carta in&eacute;dita, Olivares. <a name="line_1840" id="line_1840"></a><span class="linenum">1840</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pl&aacute;ceme, por Dios, el trueque.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Por Dios, que tambi&eacute;n me place.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (leyendo)<br />
+<br />
+&laquo;A la infanta Margarita...&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+La orden era terminante...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&laquo;dar&aacute;s al punto la muerte.&raquo; <a name="line_1845" id="line_1845"></a><span class="linenum">1845</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Sentencia que vos firmasteis.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Es verdad. Y este soneto,<br />
+como dimos en llamarle,<br />
+s&iacute;, me ha puesto algunas veces<br />
+descolorido el semblante. <a name="line_1850" id="line_1850"></a><span class="linenum">1850</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues este escrito sangriento...<br />
+&iexcl;ved lo que son los contrastes!...<br />
+ha de volver los colores<br />
+al puro rostro de un &aacute;ngel.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Soneto imp&iacute;o! Quevedo, <a name="line_1855" id="line_1855"></a><span class="linenum">1855</span><br />
+permitidme que le rasgue<br />
+sin demora... No, imagino<br />
+que es m&aacute;s seguro quemarle.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Carta feliz! Conde-duque,<br />
+permitidme que repase <a name="line_1860" id="line_1860"></a><span class="linenum">1860</span><br />
+sus renglones... de la reina<br />
+quiero en la dicha gozarme.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y esper&aacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (con tono solemne)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">En este escrito</span><br />
+hoy habla al rey un cad&aacute;ver...<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Leyendo)</span><br />
+&laquo;Al Rey,&raquo;... O&iacute;d c&oacute;mo escriben <a name="line_1865" id="line_1865"></a><span class="linenum">1865</span><br />
+los moribundos con sangre:<br />
+&laquo;Muero, es justo; la beldad<br />
+&laquo;am&eacute; que en el trono vi;...<br />
+&laquo;pero siempre, es la verdad,<br />
+&laquo;ignor&oacute; su majestad <a name="line_1870" id="line_1870"></a><span class="linenum">1870</span><br />
+&laquo;este ciego frenes&iacute;.<br />
+&laquo;Jam&aacute;s hablamos los dos...<br />
+&laquo;&iexcl;lo jura un alma cristiana<br />
+&laquo;ya en la presencia de Dios!<br />
+&laquo;Muero; perdonadme vos... <a name="line_1875" id="line_1875"></a><span class="linenum">1875</span><br />
+con sangre... Villamediana.&raquo;<br />
+De la fe de un moribundo<br />
+ni el rey dudar&aacute; ni nadie.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pero vos al recibirla<br />
+me parece que dudasteis... <a name="line_1880" id="line_1880"></a><a href="#note_1880"><span class="linenum">1880</span></a><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;De su origen, Conde-duque!<br />
+Porque sois tan h&aacute;bil,<br />
+me asalt&oacute; al punto un recelo.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pues me hicisteis un ultraje.<br />
+&iexcl;No falsifica papeles <a name="line_1885" id="line_1885"></a><span class="linenum">1885</span><br />
+la raza de los Guzmanes!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pero si un Guzm&aacute;n se nombra<br />
+conde-duque de Olivares...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Nunca falsifica!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Cierto...</span><br />
+cartas escritas con sangre; <a name="line_1890" id="line_1890"></a><span class="linenum">1890</span><br />
+y es que tal vez le repugna...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;S&iacute;... envilecerse!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">O sangrarse.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Nunca, y lo sabr&eacute;is muy pronto,<br />
+nunca pequ&eacute; de cobarde.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Sois audaz... y aun est&aacute; en pleito <a name="line_1895" id="line_1895"></a><span class="linenum">1895</span><br />
+el valor de los audaces. (Pausa)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Quevedo, un mes hace ahora,<br />
+no quisiera equivocarme,<br />
+que en esta c&aacute;mara misma...<br />
+cierto en &eacute;sta fu&eacute;...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Adelante.</span><a name="line_1900" id="line_1900"></a><span class="linenum">1900</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Yo entonces para prenderos...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues a la guardia llamasteis,<br />
+que por venir a prenderme<br />
+tuvo despu&eacute;s que escoltarme.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Un soneto os salv&oacute; entonces. <a name="line_1905" id="line_1905"></a><a href="#note_1905"><span class="linenum">1905</span></a><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Sonetos de vos me salven.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Hoy os falta ya el soneto.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues... me salvar&aacute; un romance.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Olivares</span> vase por la derecha)</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA IX</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>; despu&eacute;s <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>. Al desaparecer <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span><br />
+se dirige con rapidez a la puerta de la c&aacute;mara de <span class="smcap">la Reina</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (llamando)<br />
+<br />
+Duquesa... Duquesa... quiero<br />
+darle estas letras de sangre <a name="line_1910" id="line_1910"></a><span class="linenum">1910</span><br />
+sin demora... Mas... Duquesa,<br />
+salid. &iexcl;Oh, dicha, ya sale!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Erais vos?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Perdonad si anduve osado.</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Que eso dig&aacute;is!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Como ofrec&iacute;, se&ntilde;ora,</span><br />
+sin grande desaz&oacute;n para el privado <a name="line_1915" id="line_1915"></a><span class="linenum">1915</span><br />
+esta carta sangrienta he rescatado,<br />
+y os la presento ahora.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Sois el genio del bien!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Dadme otro nombre.</span><br />
+Mezquino entre los hombres me confundo,<br />
+y hombre fr&aacute;gil tambi&eacute;n...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;, sois un hombre;</span><a name="line_1920" id="line_1920"></a><span class="linenum">1920</span><br />
+hab&eacute;is nacido para honrar el mundo.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Callad, por compasi&oacute;n!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Cu&aacute;nto os admiro!</span><br />
+Alma ten&eacute;is de celestial esencia....<br />
+&iexcl;Oh, bendita de Dios vuestra existencia<br />
+consagrada!...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Al estudio y al retiro,</span><a name="line_1925" id="line_1925"></a><a href="#note_1925"><span class="linenum">1925</span></a><br />
+se&ntilde;ora, y nada m&aacute;s.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Y a los que gimen</span><br />
+consagrada tambi&eacute;n.... &iexcl;Oh, s&iacute;, bendita<br />
+un alma cual la vuestra, que se agita<br />
+en pro de la virtud y contra el crimen!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Movimiento de <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)</span><br />
+&iexcl;Y no me lo negu&eacute;is!... De la ventura <a name="line_1930" id="line_1930"></a><span class="linenum">1930</span><br />
+nuncio mortal, por bien de los mortales,<br />
+desterr&aacute;is de las almas la amargura;<br />
+y olvidado tal vez de vuestros males,<br />
+viv&iacute;s por dar alivio a los ajenos,<br />
+y amparo a la virtud y al crimen guerra. <a name="line_1935" id="line_1935"></a><a href="#note_1935"><span class="linenum">1935</span></a><br />
+&iexcl;Oh, ser&eacute;is muy feliz!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Nunca! En la tierra</span><br />
+nadie es feliz, se&ntilde;ora.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Ni aun los buenos?</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&laquo;De una madre nacimos<br />
+los que esta com&uacute;n aura respiramos,<br />
+todos muriendo en l&aacute;grimas vivimos <a name="line_1940" id="line_1940"></a><span class="linenum">1940</span><br />
+desde que en el nacer lloramos.&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Ten&eacute;is harta raz&oacute;n; mas yo cre&iacute;a<br />
+que a vos el cielo con largueza os daba<br />
+ventura y alegr&iacute;a,<br />
+que a vos eterno el bien os sonre&iacute;a... <a name="line_1945" id="line_1945"></a><span class="linenum">1945</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh, tarde empieza el bien y pronto acaba!...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Yo pens&eacute; que el placer, libre de enojos,<br />
+era en Quevedo condici&oacute;n precisa...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Nunca busqu&eacute;is la flor en los rastrojos.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Yo vi siempre el contento en vuestros ojos, <a name="line_1950" id="line_1950"></a><span class="linenum">1950</span><br />
+y en vuestros labios contempl&eacute; la risa...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Risa fatal de la tristeza loca!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Oh, qu&eacute; aspecto y qu&eacute; voz! Me ha enternecido.)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Me comprendisteis mal... (Es una roca.)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Est&aacute;is descolorido.... <a name="line_1955" id="line_1955"></a><span class="linenum">1955</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Tal vez....<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Quevedo!</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Comprenderme os toca!</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Mas siempre una sonrisa en esa boca...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Y en este coraz&oacute;n siempre un gemido.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(Resonaba en su voz el sentimiento.)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Yo he de perder al cabo la cabeza.) <a name="line_1960" id="line_1960"></a><span class="linenum">1960</span><br />
+Vuesa Alteza... tal vez...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(F&aacute;ltame aliento.)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+De mi loca tristeza<br />
+no haga caso ninguno vuesa Alteza...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Dejad la <i>alteza</i> ahora...<br />
+escusad nombres vanos... <a name="line_1965" id="line_1965"></a><span class="linenum">1965</span><br />
+amiga y no se&ntilde;ora...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+La carta salvadora<br />
+que puse en vuestras manos<br />
+a la reina entregad... Con raz&oacute;n harta<br />
+ser&aacute; alivio a sus penas esa carta. <a name="line_1970" id="line_1970"></a><span class="linenum">1970</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Es verdad.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ante todo,</span><br />
+como amigo os lo ruego,<br />
+haced que al punto y de cualquier modo<br />
+a las manos del rey pase este pliego.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Dala un pliego grande y sellado)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Bien, bien.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(Me reconcilia</span><a name="line_1975" id="line_1975"></a><a href="#note_1975"><span class="linenum">1975</span></a><br />
+con la ruin sociedad alma tan pura.)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Ser&aacute; de Portugal?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es de Sicilia.</span><br />
+Llegado a Portugal, en derechura<br />
+me encamin&oacute; a Palermo mi ventura,<br />
+y ese pliego es de all&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Vuestra tardanza</span><a name="line_1980" id="line_1980"></a><span class="linenum">1980</span><br />
+comprendo bien ahora.<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; contiene este pliego?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Una esperanza.</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Voy a entregarle al rey.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Gracias, se&ntilde;ora.</span><br />
+Y luego estad alerta<br />
+de la c&aacute;mara real junto a la puerta. <a name="line_1985" id="line_1985"></a><a href="#note_1985"><span class="linenum">1985</span></a><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Entra <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> en la c&aacute;mara del rey)</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA X</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>; despu&eacute;s <span class="smcap">Olivares</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Y ella tambi&eacute;n, cual todos, se ha enga&ntilde;ado,<br />
+y muy feliz, cual todos, me ha cre&iacute;do....<br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo insultan mi ser desventurado<br />
+<i>los que ciego me ven de haber llorado<br />
+y las l&aacute;grimas saben que he vertido</i>! <a name="line_1990" id="line_1990"></a><span class="linenum">1990</span><br />
+&iexcl;Ellos!... &iexcl;Prole raqu&iacute;tica y liviana!...<br />
+Si ojos hoy para verme no ha tenido,<br />
+claros su prole los tendr&aacute; ma&ntilde;ana.<br />
+Es verdad... yo lo espero,<br />
+&iexcl;vive Dios!... en el tiempo venidero <a name="line_1995" id="line_1995"></a><span class="linenum">1995</span><br />
+al nombrarme las gentes,<br />
+se reir&aacute;n mand&iacute;bulas batientes...<br />
+&iexcl;De pensarlo no m&aacute;s me inunde el gozo!...<br />
+S&iacute;, Quevedo, los hombres, &iexcl;oh ventura!<br />
+all&aacute; en la edad futura, <a name="line_2000" id="line_2000"></a><span class="linenum">2000</span><br />
+te honrar&aacute;n con chacota y alborozo;<br />
+y al ver tu calavera, alegre risa<br />
+llamar&aacute;n a su gesto, y por laureles,<br />
+al son de un tamboril, despu&eacute;s de misa,<br />
+ce&ntilde;ir&aacute;n a tu frente blanca y lisa<a name="line_2005" id="line_2005"></a><span class="linenum">2005</span><br />
+corona de juglar... con cascabeles.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (entrando por la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+Ya me ten&eacute;is aqu&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Tal compa&ntilde;&iacute;a</span><br />
+me era in&uacute;til, a fe.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Por vida m&iacute;a,</span><br />
+que de vos me ocupaba hace un instante.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Gracias.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Caprichos. Me divierte veros</span><a name="line_2010" id="line_2010"></a><span class="linenum">2010</span><br />
+en regia majestad y aire triunfante<br />
+con escolta imperial de alabarderos...<br />
+un mes hace que hicisteis esta escena,<br />
+y hoy la har&eacute;is otra vez... porque es muy buena.<br />
+Ya mis &oacute;rdenes di...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;, hablemos claros:</span><a name="line_2015" id="line_2015"></a><span class="linenum">2015</span><br />
+para prenderme.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Pues para escoltaros.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Tambi&eacute;n me escoltar&aacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">De otra manera.</span><br />
+Hoy para honraros os saldr&aacute; al encuentro<br />
+la guardia en la escalera...<br />
+Y hoy no con vos la guardia se ir&aacute; fuera, <a name="line_2020" id="line_2020"></a><span class="linenum">2020</span><br />
+porque vos con la guardia os vendr&eacute;is dentro.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Muy bien trazado, a fe.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Para este lance</span><br />
+no ten&eacute;is un soneto...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Y qui&eacute;n se aflije?</span><br />
+Al fin, y ya os lo dije,<br />
+yo en cualquiera ocasi&oacute;n tendr&eacute; un romance. <a name="line_2025" id="line_2025"></a><span class="linenum">2025</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Est&aacute;is loco, sin duda.<br />
+&iquest;De m&iacute; pens&aacute;is libraros? Alg&uacute;n d&iacute;a<br />
+un ilustre se&ntilde;or os proteg&iacute;a;<br />
+mas ya en esta ocasi&oacute;n no os dar&aacute; ayuda.<br />
+Ese altivo Gir&oacute;n, a quien se nombra <a name="line_2030" id="line_2030"></a><a href="#note_2030"><span class="linenum">2030</span></a><br />
+el gran duque de Osuna, ya no existe....<br />
+El que grande y feliz os prest&oacute; sombra,<br />
+ya muri&oacute; pobre y olvidado y triste.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Respetad a los muertos!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Sus pesares</span><br />
+de su gloria nacieron...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Olivares!</span><a name="line_2035" id="line_2035"></a><a href="#note_2035"><span class="linenum">2035</span></a><br />
+&laquo;Faltar pudo su patria al grande Osuna;<br />
+&laquo;pero no a su defensa sus haza&ntilde;as;<br />
+&laquo;di&eacute;ronle tumba y c&aacute;rcel las Espa&ntilde;as,<br />
+&laquo;de quien &eacute;l hizo esclava la fortuna.<br />
+&laquo;Lloraron sus envidias una a una <a name="line_2040" id="line_2040"></a><span class="linenum">2040</span><br />
+&laquo;con las propias naciones las extra&ntilde;as...<br />
+&laquo;Su tumba son de Flandes las campa&ntilde;as<br />
+&laquo;y su epitafio la sangrienta luna.&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Muy bien cont&aacute;is su gloria.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y qui&eacute;n la vuestra contar&aacute;?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">La historia</span><a name="line_2045" id="line_2045"></a><a href="#note_2045"><span class="linenum">2045</span></a><br />
+repasad, buen Quevedo, y pues en Flandes<br />
+a los Girones encontr&aacute;is tan grandes,<br />
+buscad a los Guzmanes en Tarifa,<br />
+y ense&ntilde;ad a la gente<br />
+Guzmanes y Girones frente a frente. <a name="line_2050" id="line_2050"></a><span class="linenum">2050</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Guzmanes!... Si tan &iacute;nclitos varones<br />
+crecido hubieran con bastardos planes<br />
+como vos, que heredasteis sus blasones,<br />
+frente a frente Guzmanes y Girones<br />
+no diera yo un Gir&oacute;n por cien Guzmanes. <a name="line_2055" id="line_2055"></a><span class="linenum">2055</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Vive Dios!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Un Guzm&aacute;n con su hero&iacute;smo</span><br />
+nombre de Bueno conquist&oacute; en Tarifa....<br />
+&iquest;Hicierais vos lo mismo?<br />
+Ese ilustre Guzm&aacute;n de pecho fuerte,<br />
+m&aacute;s fuerte que su malla, <a name="line_2060" id="line_2060"></a><span class="linenum">2060</span><br />
+su cuchillo arroj&oacute; por la muralla,<br />
+y a su hijo di&oacute; la muerte...<br />
+&iexcl;Padre noble y leal!... &iexcl;M&iacute;sero padre,<br />
+si en el hondo porvenir leyera,<br />
+la muerte a todos con sus manos diera, <a name="line_2065" id="line_2065"></a><span class="linenum">2065</span><br />
+y ahogando en pos a la inocente madre,<br />
+su lanz&oacute;n por un b&aacute;culo trocara<br />
+y en un claustro muriera,<br />
+y extinguida su raza, nunca hubiera<br />
+un Guzm&aacute;n como vos que le afrentara! <a name="line_2070" id="line_2070"></a><span class="linenum">2070</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Basta, basta!... &iquest;Part&iacute;s?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;... por no veros.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Al fin logro perderos!...<br />
+&iexcl;Entrasteis... no saldr&eacute;is... no, por mi vida!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Yo por la entrada buscar&eacute; salida.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;No! Y aunque hall&eacute;is salida por la entrada <a name="line_2075" id="line_2075"></a><span class="linenum">2075</span><br />
+despu&eacute;s os prender&aacute;n por asesino...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Libre la puerta.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">La hallar&eacute;is cerrada.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Yo me abrir&eacute; camino con la espada.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Despu&eacute;s...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">El cielo me abrir&aacute; camino.(Vase)</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA XI</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, luego <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Qu&eacute; placer! Sin dilaci&oacute;n <a name="line_2080" id="line_2080"></a><span class="linenum">2080</span><br />
+preso le traer&aacute;n aqu&iacute;...<br />
+Yo quiero testigos, s&iacute;,<br />
+que vean su humillaci&oacute;n.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Llam&aacute;ndoles)</span><br />
+&iexcl;Menda&ntilde;a, Grana! S&iacute;, a fe.<br />
+Os llamo, se&ntilde;ores... &iexcl;Oh! <a name="line_2085" id="line_2085"></a><span class="linenum">2085</span><br />
+&Eacute;l ante ellos me burl&oacute;,<br />
+yo ante ellos le humillar&eacute;.<br />
+Ya se acercan. Mi venganza<br />
+ser&aacute; solemne.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (entrando con <span class="smcap">Grana</span> y <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Se&ntilde;or...</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Os hice venir...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mejor.</span><a name="line_2090" id="line_2090"></a><span class="linenum">2090</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Para una famosa chanza.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Una chanza?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">S&iacute;... Har&aacute; un mes</span><br />
+que aqu&iacute; con discretos modos<br />
+nos burl&oacute; Quevedo a todos...<br />
+y yo por burlarle...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Pues!</span><a name="line_2095" id="line_2095"></a><span class="linenum">2095</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Voy a prenderle.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es raz&oacute;n:</span><br />
+pendiente dej&oacute; un soneto....<br />
+Si hoy no lo dice, y completo,<br />
+diez minutos de prisi&oacute;n;<br />
+y eso conforme y seg&uacute;n. <a name="line_2100" id="line_2100"></a><span class="linenum">2100</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+O&iacute;d.... (Ruido dentro a la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+CAPIT&Aacute;N (dentro)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;La espada!...</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (id.)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Oh, jam&aacute;s!</span><br />
+<br />
+CAPIT&Aacute;N<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Soldados, matadle!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (entrando espada en mano acosado por el <span class="smcap">Capit&aacute;n</span> y <span class="smcap">Guardia</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Atr&aacute;s!...</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (sujet&aacute;ndole la espada por detr&aacute;s y ri&eacute;ndose)<br />
+<br />
+Faltan seis versos a&uacute;n.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Los soldados rodean a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>. El <span class="smcap">Capit&aacute;n</span> le arranca la espada,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">y <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> le contempla con aire de triunfo. <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> permanece</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">impasible mirando a todos lados. Rapidez)</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA &Uacute;LTIMA</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos y <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, que aparece a las hojas de la c&aacute;mara del rey al<br />
+tiempo de prender a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (vi&eacute;ndola y con alegr&iacute;a)<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Ella!... Hoy todo lo concilia<br />
+para mi triunfo el destino.) <a name="line_2105" id="line_2105"></a><span class="linenum">2105</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (Que al ver a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> entre los guardias ha hecho un movimiento de terror)<br />
+<br />
+Al embajador que hoy vino<br />
+de la corte de Sicilia<br />
+quiere ver su majestad.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;D&oacute;nde est&aacute; ese embajador?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Aqu&iacute;, con guardia de honor!... <a name="line_2110" id="line_2110"></a><span class="linenum">2110</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">&iexcl;Es verdad!</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Los soldados dan en tierra con el cuento de sus alabardas puestas</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">antes en alto. <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> pasa por entre ellos, que le dejan paso,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">y el <span class="smcap">Capit&aacute;n</span> le entrega la espada, rodilla en tierra)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> con sorna)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es verdad.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;M&iacute;sero de m&iacute;!)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (aparte a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Del lance</span><br />
+sal&iacute; con dicha completa.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Sois!...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Embajador-poeta,</span><br />
+con mi credencial romance. <a name="line_2115" id="line_2115"></a><span class="linenum">2115</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(En alta voz)</span><br />
+Paso a la c&aacute;mara real.<br />
+Se&ntilde;ores... Pero es de ley<br />
+que hoy el ministro del rey<br />
+me acompa&ntilde;e. (Aparte a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Hasta el umbral.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Dir&iacute;gense los dos a la c&aacute;mara del rey)</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Qu&eacute; Quevedo y qu&eacute; Olivares!... <a name="line_2120" id="line_2120"></a><span class="linenum">2120</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Ved lo que hac&eacute;is.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Ten&eacute;is miedo?</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Eso imagin&aacute;is, Quevedo?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Mucho se encrespan los mares.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Soy piloto.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">Conde-duque...</span><br />
+dije mal... se&ntilde;or piloto, <a name="line_2125" id="line_2125"></a><span class="linenum">2125</span><br />
+sopla furibundo el noto,<br />
+y hace agua ya vuestro buque.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Oh, me hace temblar!)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 12.5em;">&iexcl;Qu&eacute; manos</span><br />
+tan fr&iacute;as!... &iexcl;Cosa m&aacute;s rara!...<br />
+Re&iacute;d.... Pon&eacute;is una cara... <a name="line_2130" id="line_2130"></a><span class="linenum">2130</span><br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; dir&aacute;n los cortesanos?<br />
+Vedlos ya mustios y tristes...<br />
+Tal vez har&aacute;n ya un misterio<br />
+de que os manteng&aacute;is tan serio,<br />
+mientras yo os abrumo a chistes. <a name="line_2135" id="line_2135"></a><span class="linenum">2135</span><br />
+Re&iacute;d, re&iacute;d.... (A todos)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Oh, se&ntilde;ores,</span><br />
+su excelencia honra a mi numen!...<br />
+Dice que de este cacumen<br />
+nunca oy&oacute; chistes mejores.<br />
+Y os hab&eacute;is quedado a oscuras....<a name="line_2140" id="line_2140"></a><span class="linenum">2140</span><br />
+Pues ved... de risa Olivares<br />
+aun se aprieta los ijares<br />
+y va a echar las asaduras.<br />
+Gracias le dije a montones;<br />
+si os las cuenta bien contadas, <a name="line_2145" id="line_2145"></a><span class="linenum">2145</span><br />
+ya ver&eacute;is... &iexcl;qu&eacute; carcajadas!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Aparte a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> al entrar)</span><br />
+Ya ver&eacute;is... &iexcl;qu&eacute; convulsiones! (Saluda y entra)<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Va que se le lleva el aire.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Hombre infernal!... Tengo miedo....)<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Qu&eacute; donaire el de Quevedo! <a name="line_2150" id="line_2150"></a><a href="#note_2150"><span class="linenum">2150</span></a><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Quevedo... s&iacute;, &iexcl;qu&eacute; donaire!<br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="ACTO_CUARTO" id="ACTO_CUARTO"></a>ACTO CUARTO</h2>
+
+
+<p>Sal&oacute;n del Palacio del Buen Retiro. En el fondo una galer&iacute;a de poca
+altura, a la cual conduce una ancha grader&iacute;a con dos ramales a derecha
+e izquierda. Sobre la meseta, a donde parten estas tres escaleras, se
+abre en el fondo una puerta de dos hojas que conduce a la antec&aacute;mara
+y habitaciones del rey, de modo que abiertas las hojas, dejan ver un
+rompimiento de salones al nivel de la meseta. A la derecha en primer
+t&eacute;rmino puerta que gu&iacute;a a la parte exterior del palacio; en segundo la
+c&aacute;mara de <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>; a la izquierda en primer t&eacute;rmino las habitaciones
+de <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>; en segundo una puerta secreta</p>
+
+
+<p class="noind"><br /><br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA PRIMERA</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>. Al levantarse el tel&oacute;n aparecen
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> y <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> subiendo a la meseta por los ramales de
+derecha e izquierda con papeles en la mano. Al llegar ellos arriba
+se abren las dos hojas y sale <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, que los detiene al tiempo
+ya de entrar<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo!... &iquest;Adentro?... Pues afuera.<br />
+Ambos sub&iacute;s a par;<br />
+volved ambos a bajar....<br />
+Son percances de escalera.... <a name="line_2155" id="line_2155"></a><span class="linenum">2155</span><br />
+Tres pasos hay expeditos. (Se&ntilde;alando las tres bajadas)<br />
+Conque... (Comenzando a bajar por la de en medio)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (a <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> con resignaci&oacute;n afectada)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Acatemos sus leyes...</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Bajan los tres cada cual por su lado)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, se&ntilde;alando el centro)<br />
+<br />
+Por all&iacute; bajan los reyes.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Y tambi&eacute;n los favoritos.<br />
+A las puertas principales <a name="line_2160" id="line_2160"></a><span class="linenum">2160</span><br />
+prefiriendo estos canceles,<br />
+ibais al rey con papeles...<br />
+&iquest;Son, por dicha, memoriales?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;; y el que tengo en la mano<br />
+dice al rey: &laquo;Se&ntilde;or, piedad <a name="line_2165" id="line_2165"></a><span class="linenum">2165</span><br />
+para Espa&ntilde;a... Del tirano<br />
+s&aacute;lvenos su Majestad.&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (a <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y el vuestro?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Con sangre escrito</span><br />
+dice al esposo: &laquo;Se&ntilde;or,<br />
+en la virtud no hay delito;... <a name="line_2170" id="line_2170"></a><a href="#note_2170"><span class="linenum">2170</span></a><br />
+Castigad al impostor.&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y esper&aacute;is?<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Se&ntilde;al afirmativo de <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>; <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> aparece pensativa)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Mucho me alegro.</span><br />
+&iquest;Lo pint&aacute;is de azul? Distintas<br />
+son de las vuestras mis tintas,<br />
+yo os lo pintar&eacute; de negro. <a name="line_2175" id="line_2175"></a><span class="linenum">2175</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iquest;Qu&eacute; designios?)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Desde ayer</span><br />
+os observo sin cesar,<br />
+y es dif&iacute;cil enga&ntilde;ar<br />
+a la astucia y al poder.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Contra el poder hay poderes... <a name="line_2180" id="line_2180"></a><span class="linenum">2180</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+No los teme mi privanza.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Aun nos queda la esperanza...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Prendida con alfileres.<br />
+Ni la astucia ni el ardid<br />
+os salvan.... Por vuestro mal, <a name="line_2185" id="line_2185"></a><a href="#note_2185"><span class="linenum">2185</span></a><br />
+el rey parte al Escorial,<br />
+y yo me quedo en Madrid...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Oh!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Tarde dais la batalla.</span><br />
+Cuando ayer al rey hablasteis<br />
+&iquest;d&oacute;nde ese escrito dejasteis? <a name="line_2190" id="line_2190"></a><span class="linenum">2190</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Es buen ca&ntilde;&oacute;n de metralla!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pero in&uacute;til ya.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iexcl;Gran Dios!)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Hoy para m&iacute; solo abiertas,<br />
+ci&eacute;rranse del rey las puertas<br />
+para vos... y para vos.... <a name="line_2195" id="line_2195"></a><span class="linenum">2195</span><br />
+<br />
+Como encontrasteis cerrada<br />
+ya la puerta principal,<br />
+para la c&aacute;mara real<br />
+elegisteis la excusada....<br />
+Pues todas, todas lo est&aacute;n. <a name="line_2200" id="line_2200"></a><span class="linenum">2200</span><br />
+No entrar&eacute;is, no.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iexcl;Dios eterno!)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Aunque se oponga el infierno,<br />
+estas cartas entrar&aacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Mucho confi&aacute;is.... La infanta<br />
+conf&iacute;a menos.... Sin duda <a name="line_2205" id="line_2205"></a><span class="linenum">2205</span><br />
+al ver la verdad desnuda,<br />
+vuestra situaci&oacute;n la espanta.<br />
+Reparad en su aflicci&oacute;n.<br />
+Mirad... ella es el espejo<br />
+donde se ve, por reflejo, <a name="line_2210" id="line_2210"></a><span class="linenum">2210</span><br />
+vuestra pobre situaci&oacute;n.<br />
+Vedla... temblando quiz&aacute;s...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;No!... La infanta Margarita<br />
+noble ante el crimen se irrita;<br />
+pero no tiembla jam&aacute;s. <a name="line_2215" id="line_2215"></a><span class="linenum">2215</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Bien, muy bien!)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Valor, Quevedo!</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Nunca me asustan azares.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Yo nunca tiemblo, Olivares.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">(A <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)</span><br />
+&iexcl;Estoy temblando de miedo!<br />
+Guardadme esta carta.... &iexcl;Ay, Dios! <a name="line_2220" id="line_2220"></a><span class="linenum">2220</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Confiad en vos.)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iexcl;Oh, s&iacute;!</span><br />
+yo conf&iacute;o mucho en m&iacute;;<br />
+pero m&aacute;s conf&iacute;o en vos.)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4.5em;">(Dale el papel y entra en la c&aacute;mara de <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA II</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+De la corte de Sicilia<br />
+soy a esta corte enviado... <a name="line_2225" id="line_2225"></a><span class="linenum">2225</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+A tratar cosas de estado<br />
+y no asuntos de familia.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues al rey quiero hablar hoy;<br />
+conque introducidme al punto.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Yo, si es de estado el asunto, <a name="line_2230" id="line_2230"></a><span class="linenum">2230</span><br />
+ministro de estado soy.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Quer&eacute;is jugar un albur?...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;, somos qui&eacute;n para qui&eacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Nos conocemos muy bien.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Va de tahur a tahur. <a name="line_2235" id="line_2235"></a><span class="linenum">2235</span><br />
+As&iacute;, pues, hablemos claros.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Es verdad, seamos sinceros.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Yo hice voto de perderos.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Voto hice yo de arruinaros.<br />
+&iexcl;Oh, siempre os quise infinito! <a name="line_2240" id="line_2240"></a><a href="#note_2240"><span class="linenum">2240</span></a><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Hoy lo veo.... Y lo v&iacute; antes<br />
+por cien s&aacute;tiras picantes<br />
+que contra m&iacute; hab&eacute;is escrito.<br />
+Yo siempre os tuve afici&oacute;n.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;, s&iacute;.... Me responden de eso <a name="line_2245" id="line_2245"></a><a href="#note_2245"><span class="linenum">2245</span></a><br />
+los a&ntilde;os que estuve preso<br />
+en San Marcos de Le&oacute;n:<br />
+mucho fr&iacute;o, hambre no poca,<br />
+y con grillos en los pies,<br />
+s&oacute;lo me faltaba...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Pues</span><a name="line_2250" id="line_2250"></a><span class="linenum">2250</span><br />
+una mordaza en la boca.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Vive Dios!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Si hoy u otro d&iacute;a</span><br />
+volv&eacute;is all&aacute;, por fortuna,<br />
+mandar&eacute; poneros una,<br />
+y enmudecer&aacute; Tal&iacute;a. <a name="line_2255" id="line_2255"></a><a href="#note_2255"><span class="linenum">2255</span></a><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Es que no pienso volver<br />
+a San Marcos de Le&oacute;n.<br />
+Pienso, y yo s&eacute; la raz&oacute;n,<br />
+derrocar vuestro poder.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Ya... lo pens&aacute;is...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Este escrito</span><a name="line_2260" id="line_2260"></a><span class="linenum">2260</span><br />
+prueba de un modo fatal<br />
+que el rey perdi&oacute; a Portugal<br />
+por culpa del favorito;<br />
+y aunque seg&uacute;n las razones<br />
+de &eacute;ste Espa&ntilde;a en aquel d&iacute;a <a name="line_2265" id="line_2265"></a><span class="linenum">2265</span><br />
+por un cetro que perd&iacute;a<br />
+ganaba muchos millones,<br />
+sabido de todos es<br />
+que el buen monarca llor&oacute;<br />
+cuando Braganza se alz&oacute; <a name="line_2270" id="line_2270"></a><span class="linenum">2270</span><br />
+con el cetro portugu&eacute;s.<br />
+Pues bien, tenedlo presente:<br />
+cuando el rey lea este escrito...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Bien, se pierde el favorito,<br />
+lo confieso llanamente; <a name="line_2275" id="line_2275"></a><span class="linenum">2275</span><br />
+pero el rey no lo leer&aacute;.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Lo adivin&aacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Lo adivino.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Ya buscaremos camino...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+No os queda ninguno ya.<br />
+El rey saldr&aacute; por la puerta <a name="line_2280" id="line_2280"></a><span class="linenum">2280</span><br />
+principal.... En este espacio<br />
+para cruzar el palacio<br />
+no hallar&eacute;is ninguna abierta.<br />
+Los que entren hasta las salas<br />
+que por este lado est&aacute;n <a name="line_2285" id="line_2285"></a><span class="linenum">2285</span><br />
+ya al otro lado no ir&aacute;n,<br />
+a no ser que tengan alas.<br />
+Saldr&aacute; el rey... y ni all&aacute; fuera<br />
+podr&eacute;is hablarle al partir,<br />
+pues no os dejar&aacute;n salir <a name="line_2290" id="line_2290"></a><span class="linenum">2290</span><br />
+ni a los zaguanes siquiera.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Es decir...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Que en mi opini&oacute;n</span><br />
+no derroc&aacute;is mi poder;<br />
+y que, al fin, vais a volver<br />
+a San Marcos de Le&oacute;n. <a name="line_2295" id="line_2295"></a><span class="linenum">2295</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+No; mi esperanza...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Est&aacute; ya,</span><br />
+como dije antes...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Perdida?</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Con alfileres prendida.<br />
+&iexcl;Ja... Ja...! (Saluda y vase por el fondo)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA III</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>; luego <span class="smcap">Grana</span>, <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span> y <span class="smcap">Castilla</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (despu&eacute;s de un momento de reflexi&oacute;n)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Ja, ja, ja, ja, ja!</span><br />
+Con alfileres.... A ver.... <a name="line_2300" id="line_2300"></a><span class="linenum">2300</span><br />
+S&iacute;, Conde-duque... sin duda...<br />
+vuestra ocurrencia es aguda...<br />
+como... punta de alfiler.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA (por la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+Don Francisco de Quevedo...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Se&ntilde;or Marqu&eacute;s de la Grana... <a name="line_2305" id="line_2305"></a><span class="linenum">2305</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;C&oacute;mo, os vais?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">De mala gana</span><br />
+si os qued&aacute;is vos.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;, me quedo.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Y hac&eacute;is bien. Yo aunque me voy,<br />
+volver&eacute; aqu&iacute;.... Lo deseo,<br />
+porque mucho, seg&uacute;n creo, <a name="line_2310" id="line_2310"></a><span class="linenum">2310</span><br />
+nos divertiremos hoy.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (entrando con <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Hoy en palacio es gran d&iacute;a.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Juntos os dejo a los tres.<br />
+Contad, Menda&ntilde;a, al marqu&eacute;s<br />
+eso de Fuenterrab&iacute;a. <a name="line_2315" id="line_2315"></a><a href="#note_2315"><span class="linenum">2315</span></a><br />
+Conque hasta luego, se&ntilde;ores....<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; llev&aacute;is en el mag&iacute;n?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Nada.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Nequ&aacute;quam. En fin,</span><br />
+&iquest;qu&eacute; traz&aacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Varias labores...</span><br />
+s&iacute;, labores de mujeres... <a name="line_2320" id="line_2320"></a><a href="#note_2320"><span class="linenum">2320</span></a><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Mejor!... Siempre est&aacute;is de chanza.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Quiero prender la esperanza,<br />
+y ando... en busca de alfileres. (Vase por la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA IV</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos, menos <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Siempre zumb&oacute;n y chancero.<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Siempre ven&aacute;tico y loco. <a name="line_2325" id="line_2325"></a><a href="#note_2325"><span class="linenum">2325</span></a><br />
+&iexcl;Vive Dios, que hemos de verle!...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;D&oacute;nde?<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">En Toledo y muy pronto.</span><br />
+S&iacute;, pardiez, esa cabeza<br />
+tiene ya seco el meollo.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;, don Francisco...<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Por menos</span><a name="line_2330" id="line_2330"></a><span class="linenum">2330</span><br />
+est&aacute;n enjaulados otros.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Y ahora recuerdo: me dijo<br />
+que hoy aqu&iacute; debemos todos<br />
+ver...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Una gran ceremonia:</span><br />
+s&iacute;, la copa de oro. <a name="line_2335" id="line_2335"></a><span class="linenum">2335</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; copa es &eacute;sa?<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Ignor&aacute;is?</span><br />
+Yo os enterar&eacute; de todo.<br />
+Es una gran ceremonia<br />
+que ha de llenaros de asombro.<br />
+El consejo de Castilla <a name="line_2340" id="line_2340"></a><a href="#note_2340"></a><a href="#note_2340"><span class="linenum">2340</span></a><br />
+en el a&ntilde;o treinta y ocho<br />
+consult&oacute;... mejor que nadie<br />
+s&eacute; lo que hubo en el negocio.<br />
+Es el caso que Olivares,<br />
+mandando socorrer pronto, <a name="line_2345" id="line_2345"></a><a href="#note_2345"><span class="linenum">2345</span></a><br />
+nos salv&oacute; a Fuenterrab&iacute;a,<br />
+que a no ser por &eacute;l... &iexcl;demonio!<br />
+Pues bien; en premio debido<br />
+a su proceder heroico...<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Pues, &iquest;qu&eacute;? &iquest;Socorri&oacute;la &eacute;l mismo?<a name="line_2350" id="line_2350"></a><span class="linenum">2350</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+No; pero envi&oacute; el socorro;<br />
+y en recompensa y por juro<br />
+de heredad alcaide propio<br />
+y perpetuo le nombraron<br />
+de la ciudad... pero &iquest;c&oacute;mo? <a name="line_2355" id="line_2355"></a><span class="linenum">2355</span><br />
+con el &iacute;tem de que el rey,<br />
+de su amor en testimonio,<br />
+siempre al ministro en tal d&iacute;a,<br />
+por recuerdo tan glorioso,<br />
+le ha de enviar un presente <a name="line_2360" id="line_2360"></a><span class="linenum">2360</span><br />
+digno de su real decoro,<br />
+para honrar de tal jornada<br />
+los aniversarios todos.<br />
+Y hoy, lo mismo que otros a&ntilde;os,<br />
+como es p&uacute;blico y notorio, <a name="line_2365" id="line_2365"></a><span class="linenum">2365</span><br />
+el rey env&iacute;a a Olivares<br />
+un sin par copa de oro;<br />
+y, adem&aacute;s, en un billete,<br />
+billete de pu&ntilde;o propio,<br />
+colocado en tres dobleces <a name="line_2370" id="line_2370"></a><span class="linenum">2370</span><br />
+de la gran copa en el fondo...<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Pues el rey Felipe Cuarto<br />
+con exquisitos piropos<br />
+da las gracias a Olivares<br />
+de lo que sudaron otros. <a name="line_2375" id="line_2375"></a><span class="linenum">2375</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Mejor es callar. El caso<br />
+es que el rey de pu&ntilde;o propio,<br />
+escribiendo al de Olivares,<br />
+le dice con mil encomios:<br />
+&laquo;que al aceptar en tal d&iacute;a <a name="line_2380" id="line_2380"></a><span class="linenum">2380</span><br />
+de su rey la copa de oro,<br />
+brinde con ella tres veces<br />
+por la patria y por el trono.&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Por el trono y por la patria!...<br />
+&Eacute;l los ha hundido en el polvo... <a name="line_2385" id="line_2385"></a><span class="linenum">2385</span><br />
+&iexcl;Vive Dios!...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">El rey, Castilla,</span><br />
+sabr&aacute; mejor que nosotros...<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Conque hoy es la ceremonia?...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Ciertamente; si es famoso<br />
+este gran aniversario. <a name="line_2390" id="line_2390"></a><span class="linenum">2390</span><br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Yo, como extranjero, ignoro.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Pues ya ver&eacute;is... a las cinco<br />
+por all&iacute;... (Se&ntilde;alando al fondo)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Si es un asombro:</span><br />
+&iexcl;oh, qu&eacute; pompa, qu&eacute; aparato!...<br />
+&iexcl;Ni la procesi&oacute;n del Corpus!... <a name="line_2395" id="line_2395"></a><a href="#note_2395"><span class="linenum">2395</span></a><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA V</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos y <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> por el fondo y cerrando las hojas tras de s&iacute;<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Se&ntilde;ores, pl&aacute;ceme veros<br />
+hoy en palacio tan pronto.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Como es la gran ceremonia...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Sois muy puntuales.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">El gozo...</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Desde aqu&iacute; a las cinco hay tiempo. <a name="line_2400" id="line_2400"></a><span class="linenum">2400</span><br />
+Hoy me ocupan mil negocios....<br />
+&iexcl;Ah! Su majestad hoy mismo<br />
+parte al Escorial.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Supongo</span><br />
+que ir&eacute;is con &eacute;l.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No, por cierto.</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Ya... &iquest;Conque el rey parte solo?... <a name="line_2405" id="line_2405"></a><span class="linenum">2405</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Yo con vosotros me quedo.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Pues mejor para nosotros.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pero el rey a su partida<br />
+sabio dispondr&aacute; que como<br />
+siempre, al sonar hoy las cinco, <a name="line_2410" id="line_2410"></a><span class="linenum">2410</span><br />
+se me d&eacute; la copa de oro.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Mejor que mejor.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Y cu&aacute;ndo</span><br />
+parte el rey?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Dentro de pocos</span><br />
+momentos. Si su salida<br />
+quer&eacute;is presenciar vosotros, <a name="line_2415" id="line_2415"></a><span class="linenum">2415</span><br />
+a las puertas de palacio<br />
+acudid, y acudid pronto.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Es verdad.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Para su marcha</span><br />
+ya est&aacute; prevenido todo;<br />
+conque...<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Vamos, pues.</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Al punto.</span><a name="line_2420" id="line_2420"></a><span class="linenum">2420</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (abriendo la puerta secreta con una llave peque&ntilde;a)<br />
+<br />
+Venid, por aqu&iacute; es m&aacute;s corto.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Vos mismo!... Gracias.... Sois el<br />
+hombre mejor que conozco. (Pasan los tres)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA VI</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>. &Eacute;sta, conducida por aqu&eacute;lla de la<br />
+mano, sale de su c&aacute;mara al tiempo que <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> est&aacute; cerrando la<br />
+puerta secreta<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(Pero eres la reina...)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(A <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> con acento imperioso)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">O&iacute;d,</span><br />
+que os habla su majestad. <a name="line_2425" id="line_2425"></a><span class="linenum">2425</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Aparte a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>)</span><br />
+&iexcl;Valor!<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">(Yo tiemblo...) &iquest;Es verdad</span><br />
+que hoy... parte el rey... de Madrid?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Verdad, se&ntilde;ora.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Pues... yo...</span><br />
+quisiera... verle un momento,<br />
+conque as&iacute;...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mucho lo siento,</span><a name="line_2430" id="line_2430"></a><span class="linenum">2430</span><br />
+es imposible.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;Ay!</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;No, no!</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Concededme esa demanda...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+El rey a todos la niega.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;, s&iacute;... la reina os lo ruega.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;No, no... la reina os lo manda! <a name="line_2435" id="line_2435"></a><span class="linenum">2435</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (sonri&eacute;ndose)<br />
+<br />
+La obediencia...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">En vos es ley.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (dirigi&eacute;ndose al fondo)<br />
+<br />
+Si el rey lo manda, se&ntilde;ora,<br />
+entrar&eacute;is luego...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;No, ahora!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Luego que lo mande el rey. (Sube y entra)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA VII</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>; despu&eacute;s <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Lo ves? Tan in&uacute;til paso... <a name="line_2440" id="line_2440"></a><span class="linenum">2440</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Veo con grande aflicci&oacute;n<br />
+que no tienes coraz&oacute;n<br />
+de reina...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Y lo soy acaso?</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+No sabes serlo. Has pedido,<br />
+y &eacute;l con raz&oacute;n ha negado; <a name="line_2445" id="line_2445"></a><span class="linenum">2445</span><br />
+mas si t&uacute; hubieras mandado,<br />
+&eacute;l hubiera obedecido.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Ese hombre me infunde miedo.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Qu&eacute; p&aacute;lida est&aacute;s!<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Ay, Dios!</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (mirando a la derecha)<br />
+<br />
+Alguien se acerca. &iquest;Sois vos?... <a name="line_2450" id="line_2450"></a><span class="linenum">2450</span><br />
+&iexcl;Ah, venid, venid, Quevedo!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (entrando)<br />
+<br />
+Vuesa Majestad...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Un modo</span><br />
+discurrid vos...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ni una puerta</span><br />
+hay por ese lado abierta.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Todo se ha perdido, todo! <a name="line_2455" id="line_2455"></a><span class="linenum">2455</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+El rey partir&aacute; al momento...<br />
+si es que no ha partido ya....<br />
+Y Olivares &iquest;d&oacute;nde est&aacute;?<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Vedle. (Se&ntilde;alando al fondo, por donde aparece <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA VIII</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos y <span class="smcap">Olivares</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>, bajando)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Se&ntilde;ora, lo siento.</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qu&eacute; tra&eacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">La despedida</span><a name="line_2460" id="line_2460"></a><span class="linenum">2460</span><br />
+del rey traigo; y no os asombre:<br />
+dice el rey que yo en su nombre<br />
+de la reina me despida.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Sois!...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Un s&uacute;bdito obediente</span><br />
+que del rey cumple el mandato. <a name="line_2465" id="line_2465"></a><span class="linenum">2465</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Mas el rey...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Dentro de un rato</span><br />
+partir&aacute;.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">(Perfectamente...</span><br />
+no ha partido el rey a&uacute;n.)<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Me retiro.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Gu&aacute;rdeos Dios.</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span> que con ella se dirige a la c&aacute;mara)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Lloras?<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">&iexcl;Ay!(Entra)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Pobre de vos!...</span><a name="line_2470" id="line_2470"></a><span class="linenum">2470</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Eso... conforme y seg&uacute;n,<br />
+como se suele decir.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+El rey parte.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Bien, que parta.</span><br />
+Pienso escribirle una carta.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Si os la dejan escribir. <a name="line_2475" id="line_2475"></a><span class="linenum">2475</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pienso... que la tengo escrita.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n va a llevarla adem&aacute;s?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n?... El demonio quiz&aacute;s.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Bien. La infanta Margarita,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Dirigiendo una mirada a <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> que despu&eacute;s de acompa&ntilde;ar a</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">la Reina</span> hasta el umbral, se ha quedado inm&oacute;vil a la espalda como</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">dominada por la situaci&oacute;n)</span><br />
+que ya el desenga&ntilde;o toca, <a name="line_2480" id="line_2480"></a><span class="linenum">2480</span><br />
+ved... no acude como vos<br />
+al demonio.... Acude a Dios,<br />
+ya con el credo en la boca.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Me insulta!)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Rez&aacute;is?</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No rezo...</span><br />
+no.... Pues al ver que en su abismo <a name="line_2485" id="line_2485"></a><span class="linenum">2485</span><br />
+Dios no os confunde... ahora mismo<br />
+a dudar de Dios empiezo.<br />
+&iexcl;No, no, Dios m&iacute;o, perd&oacute;n!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Delir&aacute;is... y no lo extra&ntilde;o:<br />
+v&iacute;ctima de un desenga&ntilde;o... <a name="line_2490" id="line_2490"></a><span class="linenum">2490</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Os lo dice el coraz&oacute;n?<br />
+V&iacute;ctima ser&aacute; la infanta<br />
+Margarita de Saboya;<br />
+pero en su valor se apoya<br />
+como una v&iacute;ctima santa. <a name="line_2495" id="line_2495"></a><span class="linenum">2495</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+V&iacute;ctima.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Firme y enhiesta,</span><br />
+capaz, porque a Dios le plugo,<br />
+de humillar a su verdugo<br />
+con una risa... &iexcl;Oh, como &eacute;sta! (Risa violenta)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Vive Dios!... El soberano <a name="line_2500" id="line_2500"></a><span class="linenum">2500</span><br />
+va a partir... y yo me quedo....<br />
+&iexcl;Ay de vos y de Quevedo!...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Puede que el rey parta en vano.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Aun esper&aacute;is que el demonio<br />
+lleve al rey aquel escrito? <a name="line_2505" id="line_2505"></a><span class="linenum">2505</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Pues me alegro infinito,</span><br />
+dadme despu&eacute;s testimonio.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Puede que lo tenga ya.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pues, aunque al demonio encuentre,<br />
+temo que el papel no entre. <a name="line_2510" id="line_2510"></a><a href="#note_2510"><span class="linenum">2510</span></a><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Lo ofrec&iacute; yo, y entrar&aacute;.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Lo ofrecisteis?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Lo ofrec&iacute;.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Cumplidlo.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Lo cumplir&eacute;.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+No, a fe, Quevedo.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;, a fe.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+No, por Dios.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;Por Dios que s&iacute;!</span><a name="line_2515" id="line_2515"></a><span class="linenum">2515</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+La esperanza es en los seres...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Todo; y cual dec&iacute;s en chanza,<br />
+yo por tener esperanza,<br />
+la prend&iacute; con alfileres.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pues la esperanza guardad, <a name="line_2520" id="line_2520"></a><span class="linenum">2520</span><br />
+y el papel tambi&eacute;n... los dos....<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Hace movimiento para retirarse)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (aparte a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n lleva el papel?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Y adi&oacute;s.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Olivares</span> se retira haciendo una cortes&iacute;a ir&oacute;nica)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">&iexcl;El demonio... mirad!</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Se&ntilde;alando a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> que al volverse y subir la grader&iacute;a, ense&ntilde;a el</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">papel que <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> le ha prendido en la espalda. Entra <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA IX</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, <span class="smcap">Margarita</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Gran Dios!...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">A muerte o a vida.</span><br />
+Ya no quedaba otro medio. <a name="line_2525" id="line_2525"></a><span class="linenum">2525</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Nuestra suerte...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Sin remedio,</span><br />
+ya est&aacute; ganada o perdida.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Si viese el papel...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Propicios</span><br />
+ser&aacute;n los cielos...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mas &eacute;l...</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Lleva a la espalda el papel, <a name="line_2530" id="line_2530"></a><span class="linenum">2530</span><br />
+como el saco de sus vicios.<br />
+Desechad, se&ntilde;ora, el miedo.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Ay! Esto a nadie lo digo...<br />
+sino a vos... que sois mi amigo:<br />
+&iexcl;yo estoy temblando, Quevedo! (Pausa) <a name="line_2535" id="line_2535"></a><span class="linenum">2535</span><br />
+Y vos &iquest;no tembl&aacute;is?<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Asi&eacute;ndole de una mano como para cerciorarse)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Se&ntilde;ora...</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Sereno... (ahora no...)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iexcl;Ay de m&iacute;!)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Tembl&aacute;is como yo....<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;, s&iacute;....</span><br />
+Comienzo a temblar ahora...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Tambi&eacute;n!...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Tambi&eacute;n... ya lo veis...</span><a name="line_2540" id="line_2540"></a><span class="linenum">2540</span><br />
+tiemblo... mas no de terror,<br />
+de...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">No lo dig&aacute;is...(Alej&aacute;ndose)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(De amor.)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;No me habl&eacute;is... ni me mir&eacute;is!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Tiene raz&oacute;n.)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> queda a la izquierda; <span class="smcap">Margarita</span></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">se ha apartado bastante hacia la derecha)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(&iexcl;Estoy loca!)</span><br />
+(&iquest;Qu&eacute; hice yo?... Su mano ard&iacute;a... <a name="line_2545" id="line_2545"></a><a href="#note_2545"><span class="linenum">2545</span></a><br />
+tal vez la abras&oacute; la m&iacute;a...)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Al fin me estrell&eacute; en la roca.)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(No le quiero hablar ni aun ver.)<br />
+Pedir&eacute; fuerzas al cielo.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Coraz&oacute;n, si eres de hielo, <a name="line_2550" id="line_2550"></a><span class="linenum">2550</span><br />
+&iquest;c&oacute;mo es que hoy te siento arder?<br />
+&iexcl;El amor! Cierto; as&iacute; empieza...<br />
+y este af&aacute;n, esta zozobra...<br />
+&iexcl;Ay! El coraz&oacute;n me sobra,<br />
+y me falta la cabeza. <a name="line_2555" id="line_2555"></a><span class="linenum">2555</span><br />
+Amor... t&uacute; dices que s&iacute;...<br />
+t&uacute; has dicho siempre que no.<br />
+Cierto, yo tengo otro yo<br />
+que combate contra m&iacute;.<br />
+El coraz&oacute;n y la mente, <a name="line_2560" id="line_2560"></a><span class="linenum">2560</span><br />
+el sentimiento y la idea...<br />
+el esp&iacute;ritu que crea,<br />
+y el esp&iacute;ritu que siente...<br />
+si entrambos contrarios son,<br />
+&iquest;qui&eacute;n?... Seg&uacute;n lo que aqu&iacute; pienso, <a name="line_2565" id="line_2565"></a><a href="#note_2565"><span class="linenum">2565</span></a><br />
+mal sujeta el pensamiento<br />
+las alas del coraz&oacute;n.)<br />
+Vos... (&iexcl;La tendiera mis brazos!)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Vos...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (apareciendo en el fondo)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Mientras yo, como es ley,</span><br />
+voy a despedir al rey... <a name="line_2570" id="line_2570"></a><span class="linenum">2570</span><br />
+id uniendo estos pedazos....<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Arroja al pasar varios pedazos de papel y desaparece por</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">la puerta secreta. <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> da un grito de terror)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Todo perdido!... Mirad...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;; por mi culpa. Y ahora<br />
+&iquest;no me aborrec&eacute;is, se&ntilde;ora?<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Callad, Quevedo, callad! <a name="line_2575" id="line_2575"></a><span class="linenum">2575</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Yo que so&ntilde;&eacute; en mi delirio<br />
+la palma del triunfo daros,<br />
+y al fin logro coronaros<br />
+con la palma del martirio.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Com&uacute;n nos ser&aacute; esa palma. <a name="line_2580" id="line_2580"></a><span class="linenum">2580</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Yo soy quien os pierde a vos;<br />
+yo s&iacute;.... Conf&uacute;ndame Dios.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Me est&aacute;is desgarrando el alma.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Maldecidme, y de ese modo...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Nunca!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Mi tormento veis</span><a name="line_2585" id="line_2585"></a><span class="linenum">2585</span><br />
+pero no comprend&eacute;is...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Todo, lo comprendo todo!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Ved mi dolor!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Ved mi llanto!</span><br />
+(Ya fuera un crimen callar.)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Causa ten&eacute;is para odiar <a name="line_2590" id="line_2590"></a><span class="linenum">2590</span><br />
+al hombre... que os ama tanto.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Odiaros!... Ten&eacute;is raz&oacute;n...<br />
+y para saberlo bien,<br />
+preguntadlo...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;A qui&eacute;n, a qui&eacute;n?</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;A mi pobre coraz&oacute;n! <a name="line_2595" id="line_2595"></a><span class="linenum">2595</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Yo...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Yo tambi&eacute;n, &iexcl;ay de m&iacute;!</span><br />
+yo que no tengo suspiros,<br />
+yo... no s&eacute; c&oacute;mo deciros...<br />
+c&oacute;mo expresaros... &iexcl;oh, as&iacute;!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Tendiendo una mano a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)</span><br />
+&iexcl;No... no habl&eacute;is... no, por piedad! <a name="line_2600" id="line_2600"></a><span class="linenum">2600</span><br />
+Ya perdidos, un deber<br />
+santo nos resta: poner<br />
+en salvo a su majestad.<br />
+Id, que esa prueba sangrienta<br />
+guarde ella misma....<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;, s&iacute;...</span><a name="line_2605" id="line_2605"></a><span class="linenum">2605</span><br />
+pero ella viene hacia aqu&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA X</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>; despu&eacute;s <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>,<br />
+<span class="smcap">Castilla</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span> por la puerta secreta<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Ya parti&oacute; el rey.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">La tormenta</span><br />
+sobre nosotros avanza....<br />
+Perdidos Quevedo y yo...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Todo se ha perdido...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;No!</span><a name="line_2610" id="line_2610"></a><span class="linenum">2610</span><br />
+&iexcl;Todo menos tu esperanza!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Y pues s&oacute;lo en vuestra mano<br />
+estar&aacute; sin riesgo ahora,<br />
+vos... guardadla vos, se&ntilde;ora....<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Sangre! No... vos....<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Y el tirano?</span><a name="line_2615" id="line_2615"></a><span class="linenum">2615</span><br />
+Ved que estoy bajo su ley.<br />
+<br />
+REINA (a <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Gu&aacute;rdala t&uacute;.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iquest;C&oacute;mo, en d&oacute;nde?</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Tomad la carta del conde.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (Apareciendo por la puerta secreta con <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span>)<br />
+<br />
+&Eacute;sta primero.... Es del rey.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">La Reina</span> que iba ya a tomar la carta de <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, toma la que le</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">ofrece <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>. <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> guarda la suya con despecho)</span><br />
+Al entrar en la carroza, <a name="line_2620" id="line_2620"></a><span class="linenum">2620</span><br />
+&laquo;Para la reina&raquo;, me dijo.<br />
+<br />
+REINA (despu&eacute;s de leer un momento)<br />
+<br />
+No estuvo el rey muy prolijo.<br />
+(&iexcl;Cu&aacute;nto en mi dolor se goza!)<br />
+&Oacute;rdenes son que en su ausencia<br />
+el rey me encomienda a m&iacute;. <a name="line_2625" id="line_2625"></a><span class="linenum">2625</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Se&ntilde;ora, todos aqu&iacute;<br />
+os debemos obediencia.<br />
+Con la puerta principal<br />
+hice abrir har&aacute; un momento<br />
+la que une vuestro aposento <a name="line_2630" id="line_2630"></a><span class="linenum">2630</span><br />
+a la c&aacute;mara real.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Cuanto al dejar su morada<br />
+mand&oacute; el rey...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">En cierto modo</span><br />
+fu&eacute; para la reina todo.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Y para la esposa nada!) <a name="line_2635" id="line_2635"></a><span class="linenum">2635</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Hoy, humildes servidores,<br />
+al rey miramos en vos.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Basta, Olivares. Adi&oacute;s. (Despidi&eacute;ndose)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Saludo... a mi rey. Se&ntilde;ores,<br />
+id.... Muy contentos y ufanos <a name="line_2640" id="line_2640"></a><span class="linenum">2640</span><br />
+hoy con un rey de ese porte,<br />
+pienso que le har&eacute;is la corte<br />
+como buenos cortesanos.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">La Reina</span> entra en su c&aacute;mara acompa&ntilde;ada de <span class="smcap">Margarita</span></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">y seguida de <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA XI</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, <span class="smcap">Olivares</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Vos, &iquest;no vais?...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Porque me quedo.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES (se&ntilde;alando los pedazos de papel)<br />
+<br />
+Ved... trocitos de esperanza... <a name="line_2645" id="line_2645"></a><a href="#note_2645"><span class="linenum">2645</span></a><br />
+&iquest;no los unisteis, Quevedo?<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> se siente en un sill&oacute;n)</span><br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo! &iquest;Os sent&aacute;is? Yo no puedo<br />
+permitir...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Parece chanza,</span><br />
+y as&iacute; estoy m&aacute;s descansado.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Venzo al fin, y est&aacute;is perdido. <a name="line_2650" id="line_2650"></a><span class="linenum">2650</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues me perder&eacute; sentado.<br />
+Mas si venzo, estoy ganado...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;C&oacute;mo vos ganar&eacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Tendido.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Al respeto me falt&aacute;is!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Nada temo si perd&eacute;is; <a name="line_2655" id="line_2655"></a><a href="#note_2655"><span class="linenum">2655</span></a><br />
+nada espero si gan&aacute;is;<br />
+y en m&iacute;, gan&eacute;is o perd&aacute;is,<br />
+ya no quit&aacute;is ni pon&eacute;is.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Parece que est&aacute;is de humor.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Mucho!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Os le quiero seguir.</span><a name="line_2660" id="line_2660"></a><span class="linenum">2660</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Bravo!... Mejor que mejor,<br />
+como en placer y en dolor<br />
+suele Menda&ntilde;a decir.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+La esperanza que os rasgu&eacute;<br />
+y ah&iacute; en trocitos est&aacute;... <a name="line_2665" id="line_2665"></a><span class="linenum">2665</span><br />
+la de la espalda...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ya s&eacute;...</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Cay&oacute; en mis manos... a fe,<br />
+que el c&oacute;mo gracia os har&aacute;:<br />
+el buen rey se paseaba,<br />
+y yo en su mesa escrib&iacute;a; <a name="line_2670" id="line_2670"></a><span class="linenum">2670</span><br />
+pero &eacute;l, que a mi espalda estaba,<br />
+muy curioso me miraba,<br />
+y al fin con sorpresa m&iacute;a,<br />
+&laquo;&iquest;Qui&eacute;n a mi buen favorito<br />
+pone mazas sin respeto?&raquo;, <a name="line_2675" id="line_2675"></a><span class="linenum">2675</span><br />
+dijo, y me di&oacute; el papelito.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo! &iquest;El rey os di&oacute; el escrito?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+S&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Pues... anduvo discreto.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Supon&eacute;is?...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Que lo ley&oacute;.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Eso al pronto me tem&iacute;; <a name="line_2680" id="line_2680"></a><span class="linenum">2680</span><br />
+mas conmigo se ri&oacute;<br />
+de la gracia y... v&iacute; que no.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues luego ver&eacute;is que s&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+No; al partir muy lisonjero<br />
+me habl&oacute; el rey.... Bes&eacute; su mano... <a name="line_2685" id="line_2685"></a><span class="linenum">2685</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues as&iacute; besa el cordero<br />
+la mano del carnicero.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Delir&aacute;is.... El soberano<br />
+con su real mano despu&eacute;s<br />
+puso una carta en las m&iacute;as <a name="line_2690" id="line_2690"></a><a href="#note_2690"><span class="linenum">2690</span></a><br />
+para la reina...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Eso es...</span><br />
+&iquest;Y no os ha ocurrido, pues,<br />
+que era la carta de Ur&iacute;as?<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Eso pens&aacute;is?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;S&iacute;, por Dios!</span><br />
+Todo el rey lo sabe ya. <a name="line_2695" id="line_2695"></a><span class="linenum">2695</span><br />
+Ya no sois uno los dos;<br />
+ya el rey os execra a vos,<br />
+y en su carta...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Claro est&aacute;:</span><br />
+prevendr&aacute; el rey, Dios le guarde,<br />
+a la reina con decoro, <a name="line_2700" id="line_2700"></a><span class="linenum">2700</span><br />
+que ella misma en regio alarde<br />
+a las cinco de esta tarde<br />
+me ofrezca la copa de oro.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+No.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Las cinco van a dar.</span><br />
+El rey a la reina ha escrito, <a name="line_2705" id="line_2705"></a><span class="linenum">2705</span><br />
+y hoy la reina, a su pesar,<br />
+debe al favorito honrar...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+O perder al favorito.<br />
+Ya no hay copa de oro... no.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Da la primera campanada de las cinco)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Escuchad... lleg&oacute; el momento. <a name="line_2710" id="line_2710"></a><a href="#note_2710"><span class="linenum">2710</span></a><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Me asesina ese reloj.) (Pausa)<br />
+Cinco campanadas...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Oh!</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;No hay copa!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">(&iexcl;Estoy sin aliento!)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Di&oacute; la postrer campanada...<br />
+mas no se abre aquella puerta... <a name="line_2715" id="line_2715"></a><span class="linenum">2715</span><br />
+&iexcl;No... no se abre... nada... nada...<br />
+Mirad... cerrada... cerrada!... (La puerta se abre)<br />
+&iexcl;Oh!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">&iexcl;Mirad... abierta... abierta!...</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA XII</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos, y al abrirse la hojas del fondo aparece <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span> trayendo en<br />
+una bandeja una copa de oro con un billete cerrado en el fondo. Al<br />
+lado de <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span> salen <span class="smcap">Grana</span> y <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>. Durante los versos que<br />
+siguen el primero baja la grader&iacute;a del centro seguido de un <span class="smcap">Ujier</span>, y los<br />
+otros dos por los ramales de derecha a izquierda, abriendo la marcha<br />
+a dos filas de caballeros, pajes, damas y meninas, que se colocan luego<br />
+en semic&iacute;rculo, dejando en el centro a <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span> con un <span class="smcap">Ujier</span> a la<br />
+espalda. Al bajar la comitiva <span class="smcap">la Reina</span> aparece en la galer&iacute;a entre<br />
+<span class="smcap">Margarita</span> y <span class="smcap">Do&ntilde;a In&eacute;s</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Siempre la loca fortuna<br />
+mala fu&eacute; para los buenos... <a name="line_2720" id="line_2720"></a><span class="linenum">2720</span><br />
+El cielo... all&iacute; est&aacute; la luna,<br />
+y &eacute;sa no da luz ninguna<br />
+cuando la noche es de truenos.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Mato, al fin, vuestra esperanza.<br />
+En San Marcos de Le&oacute;n <a name="line_2725" id="line_2725"></a><span class="linenum">2725</span><br />
+ser&aacute; horrible mi venganza....<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Ten&eacute;is...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Poder y privanza....</span><br />
+&iexcl;Mirad!...<br />
+<br />
+UJIER<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;Silencio, atenci&oacute;n!</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Conde-duque, sent&aacute;os y cubr&iacute;os.<br />
+(&iquest;Me querr&aacute; ver el rey m&aacute;s humillada?) <a name="line_2730" id="line_2730"></a><a href="#note_2730"><span class="linenum">2730</span></a><br />
+Goz&aacute;is de tan cumplida preeminencia<br />
+desde que el rey os concedi&oacute; esa gracia.<br />
+Hoy al partir el rey a San Lorenzo,<br />
+para la reina os entreg&oacute; una carta;<br />
+me la disteis; en ella me previene <a name="line_2735" id="line_2735"></a><span class="linenum">2735</span><br />
+el rey, bajo su firma soberana,<br />
+que en honor vuestro y en servicio suyo,<br />
+yo, que la reina soy de las Espa&ntilde;as,<br />
+solemnice tambi&eacute;n la ceremonia<br />
+que &eacute;l dej&oacute; a su partida preparada; <a name="line_2740" id="line_2740"></a><span class="linenum">2740</span><br />
+y as&iacute;, con mi presencia enalteciendo<br />
+una regia merced que es ya tan alta,<br />
+yo, la reina, a ofreceros he venido,<br />
+porque el rey, mi se&ntilde;or, as&iacute; lo manda,<br />
+ese presente real, que sobre el trono, <a name="line_2745" id="line_2745"></a><span class="linenum">2745</span><br />
+bajo el rico dosel, en la real c&aacute;mara,<br />
+dej&oacute; para este fin el soberano,<br />
+que os acuerda merced tan se&ntilde;alada.<br />
+Como todos los a&ntilde;os en la copa<br />
+un pliego para vos puso el monarca.... <a name="line_2750" id="line_2750"></a><span class="linenum">2750</span><br />
+Recibid esa copa y ese pliego,<br />
+y Dios... os d&eacute;... (Pausa)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Lo que de Dios os falta!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Como s&uacute;bdito fiel, cumplir me toca<br />
+la voluntad del rey, siempre sagrada.<br />
+Hoy me prescribe que su copa acepte; <a name="line_2755" id="line_2755"></a><span class="linenum">2755</span><br />
+y la acepto a mi vez. Debo aceptarla.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Toma la copa que <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span> le presenta con una rodilla en tierra. El <span class="smcap">Ujier</span></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">toma tambi&eacute;n la bandeja y se retira, seguido de la gente palaciega, subiendo</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">las escaleras laterales por detr&aacute;s de <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>. Entretanto <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span> y los</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">dem&aacute;s van pasando delante de <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> para hacerle un saludo de parabi&eacute;n;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> pasa el &uacute;ltimo, y al llegar a su lado se vuelve a la meseta y saluda</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>. Todo esto durante el tiempo que se tarden en decir los versos</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">que siguen)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (aparte a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Lloras... Reina, valor... ojos enjutos<br />
+y frente real, desprecio y arrogancia!<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Angustia, humillaci&oacute;n!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Orgullo, reina,</span><br />
+que el orgullo engrandece la desgracia! <a name="line_2760" id="line_2760"></a><span class="linenum">2760</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Como siempre, en la copa viene un pliego,<br />
+todo de pu&ntilde;o real, con regias armas,<br />
+en que recuerda los servicios m&iacute;os,<br />
+bien escasos, a fe, nuestro monarca.<br />
+En este pliego, como siempre, ahora <a name="line_2765" id="line_2765"></a><span class="linenum">2765</span><br />
+el gran Felipe Cuarto, honor de Espa&ntilde;a,<br />
+frases de amor sincero me dirige,<br />
+que yo, s&aacute;belo el rey, grabo en el alma.<br />
+Seg&uacute;n uso y costumbre, un caballero,<br />
+el m&aacute;s ilustre y distinguido que haya <a name="line_2770" id="line_2770"></a><span class="linenum">2770</span><br />
+presente a la saz&oacute;n, debe a su turno<br />
+abrir el pliego real y en voz bien alta<br />
+delante de la corte repetirme<br />
+su contexto, palabra por palabra....<br />
+Si Quevedo se digna...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Yo!... Me digno.</span><a name="line_2775" id="line_2775"></a><span class="linenum">2775</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Aparte a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)</span><br />
+Por respeto a esa reina desgraciada.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Pues tomad el papel.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Aparte a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Bravo soneto.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (idem)<br />
+<br />
+Sonetos hay, pardiez...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Sin consonancia.</span><br />
+Tales los hay a veces, y &eacute;se es uno,<br />
+que al lector m&aacute;s robusto le atragantan. <a name="line_2780" id="line_2780"></a><span class="linenum">2780</span><br />
+Se&ntilde;ores, atenci&oacute;n. Leed, Quevedo,<br />
+en voz sonora y halag&uuml;e&ntilde;a y clara...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Sonora y halag&uuml;e&ntilde;a y clara, como<br />
+el &oacute;rgano y el c&eacute;firo y el agua.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(Su amor consagra el rey a su enemigo.) <a name="line_2785" id="line_2785"></a><span class="linenum">2785</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+(Y a su esposa infeliz &iquest;qu&eacute; le consagra?)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;No llores, por piedad!)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(Cari&ntilde;o imb&eacute;cil,</span><br />
+el de ese imb&eacute;cil rey.) Dice la carta:<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Leyendo)</span><br />
+&laquo;A nuestro muy querido... el Conde-duque.&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Proseguid, proseguid.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (leyendo)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&laquo;Salud:&raquo; (&iexcl;Tercianas!)</span><a name="line_2790" id="line_2790"></a><span class="linenum">2790</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Olivares</span> se inclina)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Sobrescrito feliz.... Romped la nema,<br />
+pues lo m&aacute;s principal es lo que falta.<br />
+Las lisonjas del rey... esos elogios<br />
+que al nivel de su trono me levantan...<br />
+Hoy el rey, mi se&ntilde;or, me hace dichoso. <a name="line_2795" id="line_2795"></a><span class="linenum">2795</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Desgarrando a la reina las entra&ntilde;as!)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Rompe el sello con c&oacute;lera)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Repetidme esas frases cari&ntilde;osas.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+(El coraz&oacute;n del pecho se me arranca.)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Se&ntilde;ores, atenci&oacute;n. Leed, Quevedo,<br />
+en voz sonora y halag&uuml;e&ntilde;a y clara. <a name="line_2800" id="line_2800"></a><span class="linenum">2800</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (aparte a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Conde-duque...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Leed. (Mirad mis ojos</span><br />
+radiantes de rencor y de venganza.)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+(Os desprecio.) (A todos)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Escuchad. (&iexcl;No, no hay justicia!)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Valor, valor!<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">(Mi esp&iacute;ritu desmaya.)</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+Ya ver&eacute;is cu&aacute;nto honor... Al punto...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (prepar&aacute;ndose a leer)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">&iexcl;Al punto!</span><a name="line_2805" id="line_2805"></a><span class="linenum">2805</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+(Ciegan mis ojos.)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (a todos)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Escuchad. (&iexcl;Oh, rabia!)</span><br />
+<br />
+(Leyendo)<br />
+<br />
+&laquo;Mi buen Olivares: no he menester encarecerte mi gran cari&ntilde;o,<br />
+que es superior, y t&uacute; lo sabes, a todo encarecimiento. Aunque<br />
+p&uacute;blicas son en estos reinos las pruebas del amor con que te<br />
+distingo, hoy he de darte una mayor que todas, y d&aacute;rtela quiero<br />
+como amigo, que no como monarca. Muy luego dar&eacute; a Madrid<br />
+la vuelta, y como cumple a mis designios que t&uacute; conozcas antes<br />
+esa prueba de mi buena amistad, no debo diferirla. Es un<br />
+aviso cari&ntilde;oso de mi coraz&oacute;n; ten en cuenta el aviso porque<br />
+te importa mucho. Olivares... si estuvieses en mi alc&aacute;zar<br />
+a mi regreso el amigo te dar&aacute; sus brazos... el rey... su<br />
+verdugo.&raquo;<br />
+<br />
+(Movimiento general de asombro)<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Ah!<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">&iexcl;Gran Dios!</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Silencio!</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (Poniendo a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> el papel delante de los ojos, pero con dignidad)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ved.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;M&iacute;sero de m&iacute;!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> se dirige a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>; <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span>, separ&aacute;ndose</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">de <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>, le salen al encuentro. <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> permanece cruzado</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">de brazos cerca de <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Qu&eacute; asombro!</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Y as&iacute; le dej&aacute;is? &iexcl;Volved!...<br />
+Si os di&oacute; arrimo un pared <a name="line_2810" id="line_2810"></a><span class="linenum">2810</span><br />
+y se hunde... arrimadle un hombro.<br />
+Sombra y nido a vuestro gusto<br />
+os di&oacute; un &aacute;rbol... &iexcl;cay&oacute; all&iacute;!<br />
+Mas si al dejarle con susto,<br />
+busc&aacute;is otro m&aacute;s robusto,... <a name="line_2815" id="line_2815"></a><span class="linenum">2815</span><br />
+no le encontrar&eacute;is en m&iacute;...<br />
+nunca, no. Sobre cascajos,<br />
+tronco soy de rudas quiebras<br />
+que, creciendo entre espantajos,<br />
+ni ofrece nido a los grajos, <a name="line_2820" id="line_2820"></a><span class="linenum">2820</span><br />
+ni da sombra a las culebras.<br />
+Ya en la cortesana grey<br />
+no hay reyezuelos.... Hay dos<br />
+reyes... la reina y el rey.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Volvi&eacute;ndose a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>)</span><br />
+Se&ntilde;ora, cambi&oacute; la ley. <a name="line_2825" id="line_2825"></a><span class="linenum">2825</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Quevedo, que os oiga Dios!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Hoy que Dios en su bondad<br />
+la luz del bien nos env&iacute;a<br />
+tras de tanta oscuridad,<br />
+para vuesa Majestad, <a name="line_2830" id="line_2830"></a><span class="linenum">2830</span><br />
+grande se&ntilde;ora, es el d&iacute;a.<br />
+Hoy ante el solio espa&ntilde;ol<br />
+se dilata el horizonte,<br />
+y entre nubes de arrebol,<br />
+m&aacute;s claro amanece el sol, <a name="line_2835" id="line_2835"></a><span class="linenum">2835</span><br />
+porque se derrumba el monte.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(A todos)</span><br />
+&iexcl;El rey... la reina despu&eacute;s!<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+Si hoy por fin de sus pesares<br />
+ya la reina reina es,<br />
+sirva de alfombra a sus pies <a name="line_2840" id="line_2840"></a><span class="linenum">2840</span><br />
+el sombrero de Olivares.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Se lo arranca de la cabeza y lo arroja a los pies de <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">que baja las gradas con <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> y <span class="smcap">Do&ntilde;a In&eacute;s</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+PAJE (entrando)<br />
+<br />
+Para la reina este pliego<br />
+del rey, que en Atocha est&aacute;.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> lo presenta a <span class="smcap">la Reina</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA (a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Yo en vuestras manos lo entrego.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> lo abre y lee)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (Acerc&aacute;ndose a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span> despu&eacute;s de tomar el sombrero del suelo)<br />
+<br />
+Conde-duque, a vos me llego, <a name="line_2845" id="line_2845"></a><span class="linenum">2845</span><br />
+pero sin rencores ya.<br />
+Contrarios fuimos los dos;<br />
+pero aqu&iacute; cesa mi encono.<br />
+Matarme quisisteis vos...<br />
+pues bien... que os perdone Dios,<a name="line_2850" id="line_2850"></a><span class="linenum">2850</span><br />
+lo mismo que yo os perdono.<br />
+Y pensad en vuestra cuita,<br />
+que si audaz un caballero<br />
+hoy hasta el sombrero os quita,<br />
+yo, la infanta Margarita, <a name="line_2855" id="line_2855"></a><span class="linenum">2855</span><br />
+hoy... os devuelvo el sombrero.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Da el sombrero a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA (a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> que ha le&iacute;do ya el pliego)<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;&Oacute;rdenes del rey ser&aacute;n?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Que se cumplan sin demora<br />
+quiere el rey.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Se cumplir&aacute;n.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> la ofrece el pliego)</span><br />
+Bien en vuestra mano est&aacute;n. <a name="line_2860" id="line_2860"></a><span class="linenum">2860</span><br />
+Vos...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Obedezco, se&ntilde;ora.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(A <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)</span><br />
+Y vos no os hag&aacute;is rehacio;<br />
+por orden del rey, salid<br />
+sin m&aacute;s t&eacute;rmino ni espacio<br />
+ahora mismo de palacio, <a name="line_2865" id="line_2865"></a><span class="linenum">2865</span><br />
+y ma&ntilde;ana de Madrid.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Olivares</span> se dirige a la puerta como maquinalmente)</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (a <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Bien, mejor.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Vos a su lado;</span><br />
+como un perro, y m&aacute;s puntual,<br />
+seguisteis siempre al privado...<br />
+seguid, pues, al desterrado <a name="line_2870" id="line_2870"></a><span class="linenum">2870</span><br />
+y ser&eacute;is perro leal.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Para m&iacute; tanta dureza!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Comprended, si no sois perro,<br />
+que uno acaba y otro empieza;<br />
+os di&oacute; sombra en su grandeza... <a name="line_2875" id="line_2875"></a><span class="linenum">2875</span><br />
+dadle sombra en su destierro.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Pero... hacerme desterrar!...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Eso seg&uacute;n vuestro humor,<br />
+es mejor.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (con asombro)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">&iexcl;Mejor!</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mejor</span><br />
+que si os hiciesen ahorcar.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Mejor, mejor, por mi vida!<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Todo convertido en nada!<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A (dando el brazo a <span class="smcap">Olivares</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Conde-duque, de partida.<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;D&oacute;nde?<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">A buscar la salida,</span><br />
+porque se cerr&oacute; la entrada. <a name="line_2885" id="line_2885"></a><span class="linenum">2885</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Los dos se dirigen a la puerta de la derecha)</span><br />
+Si el verdugo ha de apretaros...<br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Ay, Menda&ntilde;a!<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Ea, valor.</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Desterrarme!<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;Desterrarnos!</span><br />
+<br />
+OLIVARES<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Nos destierra!<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Pudo ahorcarnos!</span><br />
+Conque mejor que mejor. (Vanse) <a name="line_2890" id="line_2890"></a><span class="linenum">2890</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+El rey anuncia adem&aacute;s<br />
+que no ha de haber favoritos<br />
+ya en su palacio jam&aacute;s... (Rumor lejano)<br />
+Pero ese rumor... quiz&aacute;s<br />
+llega ya el rey.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Esos gritos...</span><a name="line_2895" id="line_2895"></a><span class="linenum">2895</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+De gozo, se&ntilde;ora, son:<br />
+el pueblo con sus clamores<br />
+celebra su redenci&oacute;n...<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+Pues que el rey llega...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Es raz&oacute;n;</span><br />
+id a su encuentro, se&ntilde;ores. <a name="line_2900" id="line_2900"></a><span class="linenum">2900</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (a <span class="smcap">Castilla</span>)<br />
+<br />
+Decid a Menda&ntilde;a vos<br />
+que si el destierro le es duro,<br />
+vuelva a entrar del rey en pos.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Vanse <span class="smcap">Castilla</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span> por la derecha)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Dejar&aacute; solo &iexcl;gran Dios!<br />
+a Olivares?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">De seguro.</span><a name="line_2905" id="line_2905"></a><span class="linenum">2905</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Qu&eacute; barbarie!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">No, es piedad....</span><br />
+El dolor, por el contrario,<br />
+diz que ama la soledad...<br />
+por eso la humanidad<br />
+deja al dolor solitario. <a name="line_2910" id="line_2910"></a><span class="linenum">2910</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA XIII</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, <span class="smcap">la Reina</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (a <span class="smcap">Margarita</span> sacando la carta del conde)<br />
+<br />
+Vos, se&ntilde;ora...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Dadme luego.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Al paso en cualquiera parte.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Sepa el rey que estuvo ciego....<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Dir&iacute;gese a las gradas r&aacute;pidamente)</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;D&oacute;nde vas?<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Voy a salvarte.(Entra)</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Esa carta salvadora <a name="line_2915" id="line_2915"></a><span class="linenum">2915</span><br />
+de vuestra virtud responde:<br />
+la escribi&oacute; con sangre el conde,<br />
+y el rey va a leerla ahora.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Ser&aacute; in&uacute;til... Tantos d&iacute;as<br />
+de olvido y separaci&oacute;n... <a name="line_2920" id="line_2920"></a><span class="linenum">2920</span><br />
+Ya del rey el coraz&oacute;n<br />
+entre torpes manceb&iacute;as...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Ya su &aacute;ngel malo en el cieno<br />
+no podr&aacute; hundirle en el vicio.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Le dej&oacute; en el precipicio... <a name="line_2925" id="line_2925"></a><span class="linenum">2925</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Que le salve su &aacute;ngel bueno.<br />
+Sedlo vos...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iquest;Y su desd&eacute;n?</span><br />
+Del bien le alejaron ya.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Vuestra mano bastar&aacute;<br />
+para conducirle al bien. <a name="line_2930" id="line_2930"></a><span class="linenum">2930</span><br />
+Ya no hay quien siembre ciza&ntilde;a;<br />
+amadle y que os ame a vos;<br />
+y haced, unidos los dos,<br />
+la felicidad de Espa&ntilde;a.<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+Fuera en ello tan dichosa... <a name="line_2935" id="line_2935"></a><span class="linenum">2935</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (apareciendo en el fondo)<br />
+<br />
+El rey...<br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iquest;Quiere ver quiz&aacute;s</span><br />
+a la reina?<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Mucho m&aacute;s!</span><br />
+Quiere abrazar a la esposa.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">La Reina</span> y <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> suben las gradas)</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+El rey...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (se&ntilde;alando al fondo por entre las hojas entreabiertas)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">M&iacute;rale... hacia aqu&iacute;</span><br />
+con toda su corte avanza... <a name="line_2940" id="line_2940"></a><span class="linenum">2940</span><br />
+<br />
+REINA<br />
+<br />
+El temor y la esperanza...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Ven a su encuentro!...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;S&iacute;, s&iacute;!</span><br />
+Y a la clara luz del sol<br />
+al rey amando leal,<br />
+dadle tan solo un rival... <a name="line_2945" id="line_2945"></a><span class="linenum">2945</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(Gritos del pueblo)</span><br />
+ese buen pueblo espa&ntilde;ol.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">La Reina</span>, conducida por <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, entra y se dirige a la izquierda. Al</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">abrirse las hojas, en el fondo aparecen caballeros, y en primera <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">Castilla</span> y <span class="smcap">Grana</span>; pajes y guardias que van desfilando hacia la izquierda)</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Ven.<br />
+<br />
+REINA (dentro)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">&iexcl;Mi esposo!... &iexcl;Dicha entera!</span><br />
+&iexcl;Que mis brazos te reciban!<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Vivan nuestros reyes!...<br />
+<br />
+TODOS<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Vivan!</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Todos adentro!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (saliendo y cerrando tras de s&iacute; las puertas)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Y yo fuera.</span><a name="line_2950" id="line_2950"></a><span class="linenum">2950</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA XIV</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, luego <span class="smcap">Margarita</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Todos se van; yo me quedo.<br />
+Bien; importe que importe,<br />
+si se restan con el dedo,<br />
+debe la corte a Quevedo<br />
+lo que Quevedo a la corte. <a name="line_2955" id="line_2955"></a><span class="linenum">2955</span><br />
+Todos en tan fausto d&iacute;a<br />
+van adonde el viento va<br />
+en revuelta algarab&iacute;a...<br />
+Quevedo, en tanta alegr&iacute;a<br />
+&iquest;qui&eacute;n de ti se acuerda ya? <a name="line_2960" id="line_2960"></a><span class="linenum">2960</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(<span class="smcap">Margarita</span> aparece, y al ver que <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> comienza a bajar</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">por la izquierda, baja por la derecha, mir&aacute;ndole con af&aacute;n)</span><br />
+Con su ayer y sus historias,<br />
+un recuerdo... est&aacute; perdido<br />
+siempre en el hoy de las glorias...<br />
+que al fin siempre las memorias<br />
+son merienda del olvido. <a name="line_2965" id="line_2965"></a><span class="linenum">2965</span><br />
+Tu presencia en tal morada<br />
+fuera un recuerdo importuno...<br />
+y hoy al fin de la jornada,<br />
+al pensar todos en nada,<br />
+ya no piensa en ti ninguno. <a name="line_2970" id="line_2970"></a><span class="linenum">2970</span><br />
+En ti, ni aun despu&eacute;s de todo,<br />
+si a buena luz lo escudri&ntilde;as,<br />
+pensar&aacute;n... como el beodo<br />
+piensa, al empinar el codo,<br />
+en el que plant&oacute; las vi&ntilde;as. <a name="line_2975" id="line_2975"></a><span class="linenum">2975</span><br />
+&iquest;Qui&eacute;n se acuerda ya? Lo s&eacute;...<br />
+<br />
+Ninguno, ninguno... (Vi&eacute;ndola) &iexcl;Ah, s&iacute;!...<br />
+En este momento, a fe,<br />
+pensaba...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Comprendo en qu&eacute;...</span><br />
+y errasteis pensando as&iacute;. <a name="line_2980" id="line_2980"></a><span class="linenum">2980</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Perdonadme... En tal momento...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Que as&iacute; me ofendieseis vos!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Yo siento.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Tambi&eacute;n yo siento.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Dulce y com&uacute;n sentimiento<br />
+que es el alma de los dos. <a name="line_2985" id="line_2985"></a><span class="linenum">2985</span><br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA (se&ntilde;alando el coraz&oacute;n)<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Siempre aqu&iacute;!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (&iacute;dem)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Tambi&eacute;n aqu&iacute;!</span><br />
+inmenso, ideal, profundo...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Digno de vos y de m&iacute;.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Y eterno, eterno!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">S&iacute;, s&iacute;...</span><br />
+pero que lo ignore el mundo. <a name="line_2990" id="line_2990"></a><span class="linenum">2990</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+A ser nacimos quiz&aacute;s<br />
+siempre amantes...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Siempre buenos...</span><br />
+&iexcl;Ay... venturosos... jam&aacute;s!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Por qu&eacute; yo no nac&iacute; m&aacute;s?<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iquest;Por qu&eacute; yo no nac&iacute; menos? <a name="line_2995" id="line_2995"></a><span class="linenum">2995</span><br />
+Lo hizo Dios... y &eacute;l nos lo advierte:<br />
+un loco amor di&oacute; por fruto,<br />
+no siendo com&uacute;n su suerte,<br />
+a Villamediana muerte<br />
+y a la reina llanto y luto.... <a name="line_3000" id="line_3000"></a><span class="linenum">3000</span><br />
+Tales son sus condiciones...<br />
+mi sosiego y vuestra vida<br />
+por fugaces ilusiones...<br />
+&iexcl;Dense nuestros corazones<br />
+su postrera despedida! <a name="line_3005" id="line_3005"></a><span class="linenum">3005</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Qu&eacute; desventurado soy!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Muerto fu&eacute; Villamediana...<br />
+y la reina...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Basta. Hoy</span><br />
+mismo a mi villa voy.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+Bien. Yo a un convento ma&ntilde;ana. <a name="line_3010" id="line_3010"></a><span class="linenum">3010</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Y all&iacute; con honda querella<br />
+dir&eacute; a mi suerte cruel:<br />
+&laquo;&iquest;Por qu&eacute; me separas de ella?&raquo;<br />
+Y vos...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Yo dir&eacute; a mi estrella:</span><br />
+&laquo;&iquest;Por qu&eacute; me separas de &eacute;l?&raquo; <a name="line_3015" id="line_3015"></a><span class="linenum">3015</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Adi&oacute;s.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Adi&oacute;s.</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(En la orilla</span><br />
+morir ahogado... &iexcl;Oh tormento!)<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+(&iexcl;Arde el llanto en mi mejilla!)<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;No os olvid&eacute;is de la villa!<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Pensad vos en el convento! <a name="line_3020" id="line_3020"></a><span class="linenum">3020</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class="escena">ESCENA &Uacute;LTIMA</span><br />
+<br />
+Dichos y <span class="smcap">Menda&ntilde;a</span>, <span class="smcap">Castilla, Grana</span> con varios caballeros que en
+este momento aparecen abriendo las hojas del fondo, y bajan a la
+escena. Al verlos <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, que ya iba a salir, se detiene notando un
+movimiento de terror en <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>, que se esfuerza para ocultar su
+turbaci&oacute;n y sus l&aacute;grimas<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Su alteza...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Mirad... la infanta</span><br />
+llora... de risa.<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Eso es...</span><br />
+chistes de Quevedo...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Pues...</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Mejor, &iexcl;cu&aacute;nta gracia, cu&aacute;nta!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues hoy con gracioso porte <a name="line_3025" id="line_3025"></a><span class="linenum">3025</span><br />
+yo que mil gracias ensarto,<br />
+al fin, de mis gracias harto,<br />
+dejo, por gracia, la corte.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Y aun muy gracioso al marchar...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Y chiste acert&eacute; a decir...<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Que hizo a su alteza re&iacute;r...<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+Pues, y de risa llorar;<br />
+que, unidos en un engaste,<br />
+por lo alegre y por lo triste<br />
+una l&aacute;grima y un chiste <a name="line_3035" id="line_3035"></a><span class="linenum">3035</span><br />
+son... un chistoso contraste.<br />
+<br />
+GRANA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Es verdad!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Si bien lo mira</span><br />
+la excelente humanidad,<br />
+todo en el mundo es verdad...<br />
+<br />
+CASTILLA<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;C&oacute;mo!<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Cuando no es mentira.</span><a name="line_3040" id="line_3040"></a><span class="linenum">3040</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Ya que sin vuestra persona<br />
+en la corte nos quedamos,<br />
+&iexcl;qu&eacute; de chistes aguardamos<br />
+de esa musa juguetona!...<br />
+Desde all&aacute; vos... ya lo s&eacute;: <a name="line_3045" id="line_3045"></a><span class="linenum">3045</span><br />
+sois en el chiste muy ducho.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+&iexcl;Mucho, mucho!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(A <span class="smcap">Margarita</span>)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Mucho!</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(A todos)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Mucho!</span><br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+Escribid.<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Escribir&eacute;;</span><br />
+que al surcar simples y mansos<br />
+las cortesanos espumas, <a name="line_3050" id="line_3050"></a><span class="linenum">3050</span><br />
+me han provisto ya de plumas<br />
+muchos, much&iacute;simos gansos.<br />
+Y van dispuestos y prontos<br />
+en mi alquitara mental...<br />
+mil sonetos.<br />
+<br />
+MENDA&Ntilde;A<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;Mil! &iquest;Qu&eacute; tal?</span><a name="line_3055" id="line_3055"></a><span class="linenum">3055</span><br />
+&iquest;Sobre qu&eacute;?<br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Sobre los tontos.</span><br />
+Ya os tendr&eacute; presente a vos....<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(A todos)</span><br />
+&iexcl;La amistad!... entre los dientes....<br />
+Yo os tendr&eacute; a todos presentes...<br />
+porque...<br />
+<br />
+MARGARITA<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">&iexcl;Ay!</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(A <span class="smcap">Quevedo</span>, despidi&eacute;ndose en la meseta)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Adi&oacute;s!</span><br />
+<br />
+QUEVEDO (&iacute;d. bes&aacute;ndola la mano)<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">&iexcl;Adi&oacute;s!</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 18em;">(A todos)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 18em;">&iexcl;Adi&oacute;s!</span><a name="line_3060" id="line_3060"></a><span class="linenum">3060</span><br />
+<br />
+(<span class="smcap">Quevedo</span> atraviesa la escena, c&aacute;lase el sombrero, se emboza y vase
+por la derecha; los cortesanos se miran unos a otros, y cae el tel&oacute;n)<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+</p>
+
+<h3>Fin del Drama</h3>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="NOTES" id="NOTES"></a>NOTES</h2>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Acto I, Stage Direction.</span> <b>la de San Mart&iacute;n</b>: Sanz has associated the
+Iglesia de San Mart&iacute;n with the Plazuela de San Mart&iacute;n. The square in
+front of the Iglesia de San Mart&iacute;n was in reality the Plazuela de las
+Descalzas. The present Plaza de Ant&oacute;n Mart&iacute;n, at the intersection of the
+Calle del Le&oacute;n and the Calle de Atocha, is in quite another part of the
+city.</p>
+
+<p>The church of San Mart&iacute;n was built in the seventeenth century. Its
+richness attracted the attention of the French soldiers in 1809, when it
+was sacked and destroyed by them.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_5" id="note_5"></a><a href="#line_5">5-6.</a></b> In 1583 Philip II gave orders that no woman in all his kingdom,
+whatever her state, quality, or condition, should go about with her face
+covered (Nov. Recop., ley 8, t. 13, lib. vi). The same order went forth
+again in 1593, 1610, and 1693. The prohibition was obviously to prevent
+scandal and intrigue.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_35" id="note_35"></a><a href="#line_35">32</a>.</b> <b>mejor&iacute;a</b>: Castilla early shows his scorn for the empty-headed
+sycophant Menda&ntilde;a by thus punning on the word <b>mejor&iacute;a</b>. Here, in addition
+to the meaning of 'advancement', it alludes to the exaggerated use by
+Menda&ntilde;a of the exclamation <b>mejor</b>.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_45" id="note_45"></a><a href="#line_45">47</a>.</b> <b>Su excelencia</b>: the conde-duque de Olivares.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_50" id="note_50"></a><a href="#line_50">52</a>.</b> <b>mejoreo</b>: another jibe at Menda&ntilde;a, cf. l. 32. The suffix <b>-eo</b> is
+generally used to form nouns only from verbs in <b>-ear</b>.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_65" id="note_65"></a><a href="#line_65">66</a>.</b> <b>no haya duelo ni quebranto</b>: 'let there be no dueling or damage
+done.'</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_70" id="note_70"></a><a href="#line_70">70</a>.</b> <b>El de Guzm&aacute;n</b>: Don Gaspar de Guzm&aacute;n, conde-duque de Olivares.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_100" id="note_100"></a><a href="#line_100">103</a>.</b> <b>La infanta Margarita</b>: cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_110" id="note_110"></a><a href="#line_110">110</a>.</b> <b>Oca&ntilde;a</b>: an old town in the northeast corner of the province of
+Toledo, not far from Aranjuez. During the Middle Ages it was a town of
+considerable importance. As late as the early years of the seventeenth
+century it was still a resort for the fashionables of Madrid.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_130" id="note_130"></a><a href="#line_130">134</a>.</b> <b>la duquesa de Mantua</b>: cf. Historical Introduction. Mantua is a
+province that formed part of ancient Lombardy. The succession to the
+duchy of Mantua caused a bitter war. The legitimate heir was Charles,
+duke of Nevers. His heritage was disputed by Ferdinand and C&aelig;sar
+Gonzaga, dukes of Guastalla, and by the duke of Savoy. Charles caused
+Mantua to be occupied by his son contrary to the wishes of the Emperor
+Ferdinand II. France and Venice supported Charles and ousted the
+Savoyards and Spaniards who were besieging Casale (1629). In July, 1630,
+the city of Mantua was taken and sacked by the imperial troops. At the
+diet of Ratisbon the Emperor Ferdinand gave in, putting Charles in
+possession of his duchies. Spain at first refused to accept this
+decision, but later, by the treaty of Cherasco (1631), recognized it.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_135" id="note_135"></a><a href="#line_135">139</a>.</b> <b>Saboya</b>: Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy married Marguerite of Valois, a
+sister of Henry II of France. The son of this marriage, Charles Emmanuel
+I, married the infanta Catalina, daughter of Philip II of Spain. The
+ambitions of Charles Emmanuel to extend his dominions westward were
+severely punished by Henry IV in the treaty of Lyons (1601). Savoy
+mingled in most of the wars of the early part of the century. Charles
+Emmanuel's shifting politics were always guided by his desires of
+aggrandizement.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_150" id="note_150"></a><a href="#line_150">153</a>.</b> <b>el conde-duque</b>: not a legal title. When Philip IV made him duke of
+San L&uacute;car, he should according to custom have dropped the lower title of
+count of Olivares; but he asked leave to keep the title which was
+already well known to the nation. Thenceforth he was popularly called
+"the count-duke."</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_200" id="note_200"></a><a href="#line_200">202</a>.</b> <b>Villamediana</b>: cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_265" id="note_265"></a><a href="#line_265">266</a>.</b> <b>&iquest;Conoc&eacute;is?...</b>: i.e. <b>&iquest;Conoc&eacute;is...?</b> In the Romance languages the
+suspensive points take the place, for many purposes, of the dash in
+English. The most authoritative usage is that when these points are used
+with an exclamation or interrogation point, as here, they (like the dash
+in English) are put before the exclamation or interrogation point if
+they mean that the sentence is broken off, but after it if they mean
+that there is a break between this and the next sentence. But it is
+commoner to put the exclamation or interrogation point invariably before
+the suspensive points, as the comma in English is always put before the
+dash, regardless of the sense. When this is done, it expresses the sense
+rightly in most places, but there will generally be a considerable
+minority of places where the punctuation must be understood as if
+transposed, i.e. as indicating an uncompleted sentence. Since Sanz, or
+his printer, followed this more mechanical rule, it is followed in this
+edition; but the student must take care not to be misled by it.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_300" id="note_300"></a><a href="#line_300">303-306.</a></b> <b>Ya hace meses</b>, etc.: cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_335" id="note_335"></a><a href="#line_335">336</a> ff.</b> Cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_430" id="note_430"></a><a href="#line_430">434</a>.</b> <b>cruz de Santiago</b>: a red cross to represent a sword with
+fleurs-de-lis at hilt and guard, on a field of white. The order of St.
+James was founded in the twelfth century as a combatant order to fight
+the Moors. Later membership in the order was purely honorary. It carried
+with it an <b>encomienda</b> or estate from which income was derived.</p>
+
+<p>ACTO II, STAGE DIRECTION. <b>el palacio del Buen Retiro</b>: built by Olivares
+to flatter the whims of Philip IV. It stood beyond what were then the
+eastern limits of Madrid. Work on it was begun in 1621, and in 1632
+Olivares presented the keys of the new palace to his sovereign amidst
+great rejoicing. During the French occupation of Madrid after 1808 it
+was used as a fortress by the troops of Napoleon. The palace and
+buildings were destroyed later by the French. What were the palace
+grounds now form the nucleus of the Parque del Retiro.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_625" id="note_625"></a><a href="#line_625">627-634.</a></b> An allusion to Philip's suspicion of Do&ntilde;a Isabel's guilt in the
+affair with Villamediana. Cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_685" id="note_685"></a><a href="#line_685">687</a>.</b> <b>ese escrito</b>: cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_705" id="note_705"></a><a href="#line_705">707</a>.</b> <b>Y con su propia sangre</b>: cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_765" id="note_765"></a><a href="#line_765">765</a>.</b> <b>van ya muchos a&ntilde;os</b>: Villamediana was murdered in 1622.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_780" id="note_780"></a><a href="#line_780">782</a>.</b> <b>el pr&iacute;ncipe heredero</b>: Don Balthasar Carlos received a separate
+establishment in 1643. A boy of rare promise, his early death in 1646
+was a serious blow to the hopes of Philip and of the Spanish people.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_790" id="note_790"></a><a href="#line_790">793-800</a>.</b> It was customary for members of the nobility to have lodgings
+in the palace, especially those who enjoyed honorary positions as
+personal servants to the sovereign. In this passage no particular
+significance attaches to the names mentioned other than that their
+hostility to Olivares was the cause of their removal. For this episode
+cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_925" id="note_925"></a><a href="#line_925">926</a>.</b> <b>letrilla</b>: a letrilla is usually divided into strophes at the end of
+each of which the central thought of the whole composition is repeated
+as a refrain. This form was effectively used by Quevedo as a vehicle for
+satire.</p>
+
+<p><b><a href="#line_925">928</a>.</b> <b>al buen entendedor</b>: the whole proverb is "Al buen entendedor, pocas
+palabras," or "A buen entendedor, breve hablador." The English
+equivalent is "A word to the wise is sufficient."</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_940" id="note_940"></a><a href="#line_940">944</a>.</b> It should be recalled that Quevedo, Act I, Scene XIII, had picked
+up by mistake Medina's cloak instead of his own.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1070" id="note_1070"></a><a href="#line_1070">1070</a>.</b> Grana calls attention to the cross of St. James and congratulates
+Quevedo on receiving it.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1275" id="note_1275"></a><a href="#line_1275">1277-1292.</a></b> As the stage direction explains, Sanz has cleverly taken
+eight lines from Quevedo's sonnet <i>A Una Nariz</i>, and introduced asides
+to Olivares. The sonnet continues:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">&Eacute;rase un espol&oacute;n de una galera,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">&eacute;rase un pir&aacute;mide de Egipto,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">las doce tribus de narices era.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">&Eacute;rase un naric&iacute;simo infinito,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">much&iacute;sima nariz, nariz tan fiera,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">que en la cara de An&aacute;s fuera delito.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1280" id="note_1280"></a><a href="#line_1280">1281</a>.</b> <b>una nariz say&oacute;n y escriba</b>: the two nouns <b>say&oacute;n</b> ('executioner') and
+<b>escriba</b> ('scribe,' 'notary') used as adjectives convey the idea that
+this nose was a sharp one, even a deadly one. The notary with his
+affidavits was as much to be dreaded as the executioner himself.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1290" id="note_1290"></a><a href="#line_1290">1291</a>.</b> <b>Ovidio Nas&oacute;n m&aacute;s narizado</b>: the allusion is to the Latin poet
+Publius Ovidius Naso; the pun is on the word <b>Nas&oacute;n</b> (Naso); <i>naso</i> in
+Latin = <b>narizado</b>.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1445" id="note_1445"></a><a href="#line_1445">1445-1468.</a></b> Cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1550" id="note_1550"></a><a href="#line_1550">1552</a>.</b> <b>Esthin</b>: Hesdin, a fortified town near the English Channel, in
+Artois; taken by the French in 1639.&mdash;<b>Wiranzan</b>: probably Besan&ccedil;on in
+Franche-Comt&eacute;.&mdash;<b>Dola</b>: D&ocirc;le, a fortified town, capital of Franche-Comt&eacute;
+till 1648.</p>
+
+<p><b><a href="#line_1550">1553</a>.</b> <b>Islas Terceras</b>: the name given to the central group of the Azores;
+it may apply as well to the entire archipelago. Portuguese territory
+until 1582, it passed with Portugal to the control of Spain and was not
+restored to Portugal until the mother country regained her independence.</p>
+
+<p><b><a href="#line_1550">1554</a>.</b> <b>el Ducado de Borgo&ntilde;a</b>: an error; the <i>duchy</i> of Burgundy, west of
+the river Sa&ocirc;ne, had not been a Spanish possession. It was the <i>county</i>
+of Burgundy, east of the Sa&ocirc;ne, better known in English as
+Franche-Comt&eacute;, that came to the Spanish crown from the house of Austria.
+It was largely occupied by the French about 1643, though it was restored
+to Spain at the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648 and did not become
+permanently a part of France till thirty years later.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1555" id="note_1555"></a><a href="#line_1555">1555</a>.</b> <b>el Brasil</b>: Brazil was a Portuguese possession until 1822. In
+1630-1644 the Dutch occupied the northern provinces almost down to the
+capital, Bahia.&mdash;<b>el Rosell&oacute;n</b>: Roussillon, north of the eastern end of
+the Pyrenees, was formerly a dependency of the crown of Aragon. Louis
+XIII began its conquest in 1639 and concluded it in 1642.</p>
+
+<p><b><a href="#line_1555">1556</a>.</b> <b>Ormuz</b>: a Portuguese trading station on the East India route until
+1622, when it was captured and destroyed by the Persians and English. It
+was on the strait of the same name, which connects the Persian Gulf and
+the Sea of Oman.&mdash;<b>Pernambuco</b>: a Brazilian state whose colonization dates
+from the second decade of the sixteenth century. The Dutch seized it in
+1630 and held it till 1654.&mdash;<b>Hoa</b>: for Goa, a Portuguese trading station
+in India.</p>
+
+<p><b><a href="#line_1555">1559</a>.</b> <b>Braganza</b>: the house of Braganza was founded by John I of Portugal
+in the person of his illegitimate son Alfonso. The dukes of Braganza
+played important r&ocirc;les in the history of Portugal during the fifteenth
+and sixteenth centuries. Tedosio II served Philip II faithfully as long
+as Portugal was a Spanish dependency. In 1630 his son John II succeeded
+him, and in 1640 was proclaimed king of Portugal as John IV.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1560" id="note_1560"></a><a href="#line_1560">1560</a>.</b> <b>Villaviciosa</b>: Villa Vi&ccedil;osa, a city of Portugal about twenty miles
+from Elvas. It is famous for its connection with the house of Braganza.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1585" id="note_1585"></a><a href="#line_1585">1587</a>.</b> <b>las Salinas</b>: I am unable to identify this place.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1615" id="note_1615"></a><a href="#line_1615">1615-1616.</a></b> Mars and Bellona, the god and goddess of war in Latin
+mythology. Margarita and Quevedo are leading the attack on Olivares.
+While Quevedo is absent Margarita is idle.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1685" id="note_1685"></a><a href="#line_1685">1685</a>.</b> <b>&Eacute;ranse etc.</b>: the stereotyped manner of beginning a story. It has
+the same touch of quaintness as the English "once upon a time there
+was," etc.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1835" id="note_1835"></a><a href="#line_1835">1837</a>.</b> <b>tarantela</b>: the tarantella is a Neapolitan dance, particularly
+animated and spirited. The sense of the passage is that Quevedo watches
+his fellow mortals rush feverishly hither and thither with great stir of
+activity, but accomplishing nothing of value.</p>
+
+<p><b><a href="#line_1835">1838</a>.</b> This name originally was applied to a German dancing mania. Sanz
+uses it in its modern sense of a disease whose most conspicuous symptom
+is interference with the control of the muscles.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1880" id="note_1880"></a><a href="#line_1880">1882</a>.</b> This line is faulty; two syllables are lacking.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1905" id="note_1905"></a><a href="#line_1905">1908</a>.</b> Quevedo is even more famous for his satirical <b>romances</b> (<i>ballads</i>)
+than for his letrillas and sonnets.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1925" id="note_1925"></a><a href="#line_1925">1926-1929</a>.</b> Margarita here probably alludes to Quevedo's <i>Poes&iacute;as
+Morales</i>, "esto es que descubren y manifiestan las pasiones y costumbres
+del hombre, procur&aacute;ndolas enmendar."</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1935" id="note_1935"></a><a href="#line_1935">1938-1941</a>.</b> These lines are taken from the first strophe of Quevedo's
+"Elogio al Duque de Lerma, Canci&oacute;n Pind&aacute;rica."</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1975" id="note_1975"></a><a href="#line_1975">1977</a>.</b> Sicily was at this time still ruled by a Spanish viceroy.</p>
+
+<p><b><a href="#line_1975">1979</a>.</b> Palermo, a city on the north coast of Sicily, formerly the capital
+of the kingdom of Sicily and now the capital of the province of Palermo.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_1985" id="note_1985"></a><a href="#line_1985">1989-1990</a>.</b> These lines are taken from one of Quevedo's cold and highly
+artificial love sonnets, "Musa" IV, VII.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2030" id="note_2030"></a><a href="#line_2030">2030</a>.</b> <b>ese altivo Gir&oacute;n</b>: cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2035" id="note_2035"></a><a href="#line_2035">2036-2043</a>.</b> Sanz quotes the two quatrains of Quevedo's sonnet "Memoria
+inmortal de Don Pedro Gir&oacute;n, Duque de Osuna, muerto en la prisi&oacute;n." The
+concluding tercets are inferior to the quatrains.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2045" id="note_2045"></a><a href="#line_2045">2048</a>.</b> <b>los Guzmanes en Tarifa</b>: the allusion is to Alonso P&eacute;rez de Guzm&aacute;n,
+called <b>el Bueno</b> (1256-1309). In the reign of Sancho IV of Castile,
+Alonso P&eacute;rez was entrusted with the defense of Tarifa against the Moors.
+Tarifa was besieged by the traitorous infante Don Juan at the head of an
+army of Moors and adventurers. Assaults proving fruitless, Don Juan
+summoned Guzm&aacute;n to a parley on the walls of the city, where he told him
+that if Tarifa were not immediately surrendered, the son of the gallant
+defender would be put to death before his eyes. The answer of Alonso
+P&eacute;rez was to fling down the weapon with which his son should be
+murdered. Don Juan promptly dispatched the boy and cast his head within
+the walls.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2150" id="note_2150"></a><a href="#line_2150">2153</a>.</b> This line is faulty; one syllable is lacking.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2170" id="note_2170"></a><a href="#line_2170">2173-2175</a>.</b> Blue symbolizes perseverance, loyalty and recompense; while
+black, as the symbol of grief and mourning, would signify despair.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2185" id="note_2185"></a><a href="#line_2185">2186</a>.</b> <b>al Escorial</b>: the Real Sitio or Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo del
+Escorial lies thirty-one miles northwest of Madrid. It is traditionally
+believed that during the battle of St. Quentin on St. Lawrence's day
+(Aug. 10), 1557, Philip vowed that he would build a monastery and
+dedicate it to St. Lawrence in order to make amends for the destruction
+by Spanish artillery of a church that bore his name. However, as
+Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy won the battle and Philip himself was not
+present, we may suppose that the Escorial was built rather to fulfill
+Philip's promise to his father Charles V that he would build a suitable
+tomb as a final resting-place for the remains of the latter and of his
+wife. In modern times the Escorial has been little used as a palace by
+the kings of Spain. It is now a monastery in the care of Augustinian
+monks.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2240" id="note_2240"></a><a href="#line_2240">2242</a>.</b> Cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2245" id="note_2245"></a><a href="#line_2245">2247</a>.</b> Cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2255" id="note_2255"></a><a href="#line_2255">2255</a>.</b> <b>enmudecer&aacute; Tal&iacute;a</b>: Thalia is the muse of comedy; hence the passage
+would mean 'your laughing satirical tongue will be silenced.'</p>
+
+<p><b><a href="#line_2255">2256-2257</a>.</b> Cf. Historical Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2315" id="note_2315"></a><a href="#line_2315">2315</a>.</b> Menda&ntilde;a gives the explanation in the following scene, cf. l. 2346
+and note.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2320" id="note_2320"></a><a href="#line_2320">2320</a>.</b> Quevedo puns on the word <b>labores</b> 'embroidery' and the usual sense
+of 'labor, work.'</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2325" id="note_2325"></a><a href="#line_2325">2327</a>.</b> <b>en Toledo</b>: an allusion to the hospital for the insane at Toledo,
+called <b>la Casa del Nuncio</b>.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2340" id="note_2340"></a><a href="#line_2340">2340</a>.</b> <b>el consejo de Castilla</b>: the Consejo de la Real C&aacute;mara or C&aacute;mara de
+Castilla was an outgrowth of the reorganized Consejo Real of Ferdinand
+and Isabella. It was established in 1588 by Philip II, who required that
+its members be persons chosen for their prudence, piety, and zeal. Its
+principal functions were to look after the royal revenues, to fill
+ecclesiastical benefices, and to administer justice in Castile, Navarre,
+and the Canary Islands.&mdash;For this action by the Consejo cf. Historical
+Introduction.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2345" id="note_2345"></a><a href="#line_2345">2346</a>.</b> <b>Fuenterrab&iacute;a</b>: the siege by the French began in July, 1638. The
+town was supplied with provisions by sea from San Sebastian until a
+fleet commanded by the archbishop of Bordeaux put an end to this source
+of supplies with heavy loss to the Spaniards. Meanwhile a force was
+being prepared to attack the French in their camp. The attack was
+successful and the rout of the French was complete.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2395" id="note_2395"></a><a href="#line_2395">2395</a>.</b> <b>del Corpus</b>: Corpus Christi, the day upon which the institution of
+the Holy Eucharist is commemorated. It is observed in Roman Catholic
+countries with great pomp and ceremony.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2510" id="note_2510"></a><a href="#line_2510">2511</a>.</b> <b>Lo</b>: not the paper, but, as line 2513 shows, the proposition that
+the paper should go in.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2545" id="note_2545"></a><a href="#line_2545">2547</a>.</b> <b>Al fin me estrell&eacute; en la roca</b>: 'at last I have met my fate.'
+Quevedo had always affected scorn for women. Sanz ignores the fact of
+Quevedo's marriage.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2565" id="note_2565"></a><a href="#line_2565">2565</a>.</b> <b>&iquest;qui&eacute;n?...</b>: the full form of the question is 'which will prove the
+stronger?'</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2645" id="note_2645"></a><a href="#line_2645">2647</a>.</b> It was a breach of etiquette for Quevedo to be seated without
+permission in the presence of Olivares.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2655" id="note_2655"></a><a href="#line_2655">2658</a>.</b> <b>ya no quit&aacute;is ni pon&eacute;is</b>: this is a reminiscence of Bertrand du
+Guesclin's "Ni quito ni pongo rey, pero ayudo a mi se&ntilde;or." Du Guesclin
+with his White Companies came to the aid of Enrique de Trastamara in
+the latter's rebellion against his half-brother Pedro el Cruel. Pedro,
+besieged in the castle of Montiel, tried to save himself from Enrique by
+making terms with Du Guesclin, but he was betrayed into the presence of
+Enrique. In the struggle that necessarily ensued the two brothers fell
+to the ground locked in each other's arms. Things were going badly for
+Enrique when Du Guesclin interfered to give Enrique a chance to dispatch
+Pedro with his dagger (1369).</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2690" id="note_2690"></a><a href="#line_2690">2693</a>.</b> <b>la carta de Ur&iacute;as</b>: in order to have greater opportunity to indulge
+his passion for Bathsheba, King David sent her husband Uriah to the
+siege of Rabbah, and at the same time sent a letter giving orders that
+Uriah be stationed in the place of greatest danger. Cf. II Samuel xii.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2710" id="note_2710"></a><a href="#line_2710">2714</a>.</b> <b>postrer</b>: we should expect <b>postrera</b> before a feminine noun, but the
+meter demands <b>postrer</b>.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_2730" id="note_2730"></a><a href="#line_2730">2731</a>.</b> <b>Goz&aacute;is de tan cumplida preeminencia</b>: the right to cover the head
+in the presence of the king was the special ceremonial distinction of
+the grandees of Spain.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">The King's Letter</span>, last line: if Quevedo had not made pauses in reading
+in order to hold his hearers in suspense, there would have been a
+punctuation mark after <b>brazos</b> but not after <b>rey</b>.</p>
+
+<p><b><a name="note_3005" id="note_3005"></a><a href="#line_3005">3009</a>.</b> <b>mi villa</b>: la Villa de la Torre de Juan Abad, in the Campo de
+Montiel, about one hundred miles from Madrid.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="VOCABULARY" id="VOCABULARY"></a>VOCABULARY</h2>
+
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The sign &#126; means a repetition of the word in black type at the beginning of the
+paragraph; thus, under <b>acordar</b>, "<b>&#126; se</b>" means <b>acordarse</b>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="hanging">
+<p><b>a</b> to, at, on, by, with, in, according to, within; <i>as sign of personal object is not to be translated</i>; <b>&#126; muerte</b> o <b>&#126; vida</b> it is life or death; <b>&#126; pesar de</b> in spite of; <b>&#126; qu&eacute;</b> why; <b>&#126; no ser por</b> were it not for; <b>&#126; trav&eacute;s de</b> across, through</p>
+
+<p><b>abajo</b> below, beneath</p>
+
+<p><b>abalanzarse sobre</b> rush impetuously at</p>
+
+<p><b>abandonar</b> abandon, forsake</p>
+
+<p><b>abierto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>abrir</b>) open</p>
+
+<p><b>abismado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>abismar</b>) buried in thought, dejected</p>
+
+<p><b>abismo</b> <i>m.</i> abyss</p>
+
+<p><b>abonar</b> support, bear out</p>
+
+<p><b>aborrecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> abhor, hate</p>
+
+<p><b>abortar</b> miscarry, fail</p>
+
+<p><b>abrasar</b> burn, fire; madden</p>
+
+<p><b>abrazar</b> embrace</p>
+
+<p><b>abrigar</b> shelter</p>
+
+<p><b>abrir</b> <i>irreg.</i> open; <b>&#126; la marcha</b> go at the head, lead; <b>&#126; paso</b> clear the way</p>
+
+<p><b>abrumar</b> crush, weary</p>
+
+<p><b>absorto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>absorber</b>) absorbed, amazed</p>
+
+<p><b>aburrido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>aburrir</b>) bored</p>
+
+<p><b>aburrirse de</b> be bored with</p>
+
+<p><b>ac&aacute;</b> here, hither</p>
+
+<p><b>acabar</b> finish, come to an end; <b>&#126; de</b> have just</p>
+
+<p><b>acaloradamente</b> heatedly, earnestly</p>
+
+<p><b>acaso</b> perhaps, perchance</p>
+
+<p><b>acatar</b> respect, observe</p>
+
+<p><b>acceso</b> <i>m.</i> access, attack (of illness or emotion)</p>
+
+<p><b>acci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> action</p>
+
+<p><b>acento</b> <i>m.</i> accent, tone, voice</p>
+
+<p><b>aceptar</b> accept</p>
+
+<p><b>acerbo,&nbsp;-a</b> bitter</p>
+
+<p><b>acercarse</b> approach</p>
+
+<p><b>acero</b> <i>m.</i> steel; sword</p>
+
+<p><b>acertar</b> <i>irreg.</i> hit by chance, guess rightly; happen to, succeed in</p>
+
+<p><b>acompa&ntilde;ado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>acompa&ntilde;ar</b>) accompanied</p>
+
+<p><b>acompa&ntilde;ar</b> accompany, escort</p>
+
+<p><b>acordar</b> <i>irreg.</i> resolve, determine, grant (<i>used of king when he determines something which he will later authorize with his official seal and signature</i>); <b>&#126; se</b> remember, recall; <b>&#126; se de</b> remember</p>
+
+<p><b>acosado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>acosar</b>) pursued closely</p>
+
+<p><b>acosar</b> harass, pursue, beset</p>
+
+<p><b>actitud</b> <i>f.</i> attitude, position; <b>en &#126; de marcharse</b> as if about to go away</p>
+
+<p><b>acto</b> <i>m.</i> act</p>
+
+<p><b>actor</b> <i>m.</i> actor; <b>primer &#126; </b> leading man</p>
+
+<p><b>actriz</b> <i>f.</i> actress</p>
+
+<p><b>acudir a</b> go to, attend, repair to, have recourse to</p>
+
+<p><b>adalid</b> <i>m.</i> chief, champion</p>
+
+<p><b>Ad&aacute;n</b> Adam</p>
+
+<p><b>adelantar</b> advance; <b>&#126; se</b> advance, approach</p>
+
+<p><b>adelante</b> ahead, forward</p>
+
+<p><b>adem&aacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> look, appearance, expression, gesture</p>
+
+<p><b>adem&aacute;s</b> besides, moreover</p>
+
+<p><b>adentro</b> inside, within</p>
+
+<p><b>adi&oacute;s</b> good-by</p>
+
+<p><b>adivinar</b> guess, foretell</p>
+
+<p><b>admirable</b> admirable</p>
+
+<p><b>admirar</b> admire, wonder at</p>
+
+<p><b>adornar</b> adorn</p>
+
+<p><b>adulador</b> <i>m.</i> flatterer</p>
+
+<p><b>advertir</b> <i>irreg.</i> observe; give notice, give warning, acquaint</p>
+
+<p><b>af&aacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> anxiety, eagerness</p>
+
+<p><b>afanoso,&nbsp;-a</b> anxious, eager</p>
+
+<p><b>afectado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>afectar</b>) affected</p>
+
+<p><b>afectar</b> affect, feign</p>
+
+<p><b>afectuoso,&nbsp;-a</b> affectionate</p>
+
+<p><b>afici&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> fondness, attachment</p>
+
+<p><b>afirmar</b> declare, assert</p>
+
+<p><b>afirmativo,&nbsp;-a</b> affirmative</p>
+
+<p><b>aflicci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> affliction</p>
+
+<p><b>afligirse</b> grieve, repine</p>
+
+<p><b>afogonarse</b> miss fire</p>
+
+<p><b>afrentar</b> affront, insult, shame</p>
+
+<p><b>afuera</b> outside</p>
+
+<p><b>agitado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>agitar</b>) agitated</p>
+
+<p><b>agitar</b> agitate, perturb; wave, shake; <b>&#126; se</b> be busied</p>
+
+<p><b>agon&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> last moments, agony</p>
+
+<p><b>agotar</b> exhaust; <b>&#126; se</b> become exhausted</p>
+
+<p><b>agua</b> <i>f.</i> water; <b>hacer &#126; </b> leak</p>
+
+<p><b>aguardar</b> wait for, await (expectantly)</p>
+
+<p><b>agudo,&nbsp;-a</b> acute, shrewd</p>
+
+<p><b>ah</b> ah, oh</p>
+
+<p><b>ah&iacute;</b> there (near person addressed); here</p>
+
+<p><b>ahogado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>ahogar</b>) stifled, drowned; <b>morir &#126; en la orilla</b> <i>cf.</i> <b>orilla</b></p>
+
+<p><b>ahogar</b> stifle; <b>&#126; se</b> be smothered, be suffocated, be drowned</p>
+
+<p><b>ahora</b> now; <b>por &#126; </b> for the time being, now</p>
+
+<p><b>ahorcar</b> hang</p>
+
+<p><b>aire</b> <i>m.</i> air, expression, look, demeanor</p>
+
+<p><b>ajeno,&nbsp;-a</b> strange, foreign, belonging to another, of another</p>
+
+<p><b>al</b> = <b>a</b> + <b>el</b></p>
+
+<p><b>ala</b> <i>f.</i> wing</p>
+
+<p><b>alabarda</b> <i>f.</i> halberd, pike</p>
+
+<p><b>alabardero</b> <i>m.</i> halberdier, pikeman</p>
+
+<p><b>alambicar</b> distill; be unnecessarily particular</p>
+
+<p><b>alarde</b> <i>m.</i> ostentation, boast, manifestation; <b>en regio &#126; </b> as if she were the sovereign himself, with royal show</p>
+
+<p><b>alargar</b> extend, hold out</p>
+
+<p><b>alborozo</b> <i>m.</i> gayety, joy, rejoicing</p>
+
+<p><b>albur</b> <i>m.</i> first draw at monte; chance, risk; <b>jugar un &#126; </b> take a risk, take a chance</p>
+
+<p><b>alcaide</b> <i>m.</i> governor (of castle), warden, guardian</p>
+
+<p><b>alcalde</b> <i>m.</i> mayor; <b>&#126; mayor de casa y corte</b> judge who with his fellows formed one fifth of chamber of Consejo de Castilla, <i>see note, l. 2340</i></p>
+
+<p><b>alcanzar</b> overtake, grasp, obtain, attain</p>
+
+<p><b>alc&aacute;zar</b> <i>m.</i> castle, palace</p>
+
+<p><b>alcot&aacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> lanner (hawk)</p>
+
+<p><b>alegrarse de</b> rejoice in, be delighted at</p>
+
+<p><b>alegre</b> cheerful, gay, joyous</p>
+
+<p><b>alegr&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> joy, gladness</p>
+
+<p><b>alejar</b> remove; <b>&#126; se</b> move away, go away; <b>&#126; del bien</b> lead astray</p>
+
+<p><b>alerta</b> vigilantly, on the watch</p>
+
+<p><b>alfiler</b> <i>m.</i> pin; <b>prender con &#126; es</b> pin up, pin on, pin together, <i>fig.</i> put together flimsily</p>
+
+<p><b>alfombra</b> <i>f.</i> carpet</p>
+
+<p><b>algarab&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> jargon, gabble, hubbub</p>
+
+<p><b>algo</b> something, anything, somewhat</p>
+
+<p><b>alguacil</b> <i>m.</i> constable, bailiff</p>
+
+<p><b>alguien</b> some one</p>
+
+<p><b>alg&uacute;n</b> <i>see</i> <b>alguno</b></p>
+
+<p><b>alguno,&nbsp;-a</b> some, any, some one</p>
+
+<p><b>aliento</b> <i>m.</i> breath</p>
+
+<p><b>alivio</b> <i>m.</i> relief</p>
+
+<p><b>alma</b> <i>f.</i> soul, heart; <b>del &#126; </b> beloved</p>
+
+<p><b>alojamiento</b> <i>m.</i> lodgings</p>
+
+<p><b>alquitara</b> <i>f.</i> still</p>
+
+<p><b>alquitarado</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>alquitarar</b>) <b>-a</b> distilled, purified, put through a purifying process</p>
+
+<p><b>alrededor</b> around, round about; <b>&#126; de</b> about, around; <b>a su &#126; </b> around her <i>etc.</i></p>
+
+<p><b>alternativamente</b> alternately</p>
+
+<p><b>alteza</b> <i>f.</i> highness</p>
+
+<p><b>altivez</b> <i>f.</i> arrogance, pride</p>
+
+<p><b>altivo,&nbsp;-a</b> arrogant, proud, haughty</p>
+
+<p><b>alto,&nbsp;-a</b> high, noble; deep</p>
+
+<p><b>altura</b> <i>f.</i> height, summit, heights</p>
+
+<p><b>alumbrado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>alumbrar</b>) lighted</p>
+
+<p><b>alumbrador</b> <i>m.</i> torch-bearer, light-bearer</p>
+
+<p><b>alumbrar</b> illuminate, enlighten, light</p>
+
+<p><b>alzar</b> raise; <b>&#126;se</b> rise; rebel</p>
+
+<p><b>all&aacute;</b> there, thither; <b>por &#126; </b> in that direction</p>
+
+<p><b>all&iacute;</b> there; <b>por &#126; </b> that way, there</p>
+
+<p><b>amanecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> dawn</p>
+
+<p><b>amante</b> loving</p>
+
+<p><b>amante</b> <i>m. or f.</i> lover</p>
+
+<p><b>amar</b> love</p>
+
+<p><b>amargo,&nbsp;-a</b> bitter</p>
+
+<p><b>amargura</b> <i>f.</i> bitterness</p>
+
+<p><b>amarillo,&nbsp;-a</b> yellow</p>
+
+<p><b>ambici&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> ambition</p>
+
+<p><b>ambicionar</b> pursue as an ambition; covet</p>
+
+<p><b>ambos,&nbsp;-as</b> both</p>
+
+<p><b>am&eacute;n</b> amen</p>
+
+<p><b>amenazante</b> threatening, menacing</p>
+
+<p><b>amigo,&nbsp;-a</b> friend</p>
+
+<p><b>amistad</b> <i>f.</i> friendship</p>
+
+<p><b>amor</b> <i>m.</i> love; <i>pl.</i> love affair(s)</p>
+
+<p><b>amparo</b> <i>m.</i> protection, refuge</p>
+
+<p><b>ancho,&nbsp;-a</b> broad</p>
+
+<p><b>andar</b> <i>irreg.</i> go, walk, act, go about;
+<i>often equivalent to</i> <b>estar</b>; <b>&#126; por las ramas</b> fix one's attention on the least important part of the question, beat about the bush</p>
+
+<p><b>&aacute;ngel</b> <i>m.</i> angel; <b>&#126; malo</b> evil genius</p>
+
+<p><b>angustia</b> <i>f.</i> anguish, suffering</p>
+
+<p><b>anhelar</b> long for, desire anxiously</p>
+
+<p><b>aniquilar</b> annihilate, destroy</p>
+
+<p><b>aniversario</b> anniversary</p>
+
+<p><b>anochecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> become night, grow dark; <b>al &#126; </b> at nightfall</p>
+
+<p><b>ansia</b> <i>f.</i> anxiety, eagerness</p>
+
+<p><b>ansiedad</b> <i>f.</i> anxiety; <b>con &#126; </b> anxiously</p>
+
+<p><b>ante</b> before, in front of</p>
+
+<p><b>antec&aacute;mara</b> <i>f.</i> antechamber</p>
+
+<p><b>anterior</b> preceding, former</p>
+
+<p><b>antes</b> formerly, before; <b>&#126; de</b> before</p>
+
+<p><b>anunciar</b> announce</p>
+
+<p><b>a&ntilde;adir</b> add</p>
+
+<p><b>a&ntilde;o</b> <i>m.</i> year; <b>al &#126; </b> yearly</p>
+
+<p><b>aparato</b> <i>m.</i> pomp, ostentation, show</p>
+
+<p><b>aparecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> appear</p>
+
+<p><b>aparentar</b> make a false show, feign, sham</p>
+
+<p><b>apartar</b> remove, put aside, part, withdraw; <b>&#126; se</b> withdraw, move away, leave</p>
+
+<p><b>aparte</b> aside</p>
+
+<p><b>apasionadamente</b> passionately</p>
+
+<p><b>apelar</b> appeal</p>
+
+<p><b>aplaudir</b> applaud</p>
+
+<p><b>aplazar</b> postpone, delay</p>
+
+<p><b>aposento</b> <i>m.</i> room, apartment</p>
+
+<p><b>apoyarse</b> lean, rely on</p>
+
+<p><b>apresuramiento</b> <i>m.</i> hastiness, eagerness</p>
+
+<p><b>apretar</b> <i>irreg.</i> compress, hold, clutch;
+distress, harass</p>
+
+<p><b>aproximarse</b> approach</p>
+
+<p><b>apuntar</b> aim</p>
+
+<p><b>apurar</b> consume, drain, exhaust; <b>&#126; se</b> worry, fret</p>
+
+<p><b>apuro</b> <i>m.</i> perplexity, difficulty, affliction, straits, want</p>
+
+<p><b>aquel,-lla</b> that, the former</p>
+
+<p><b>aqu&eacute;l,-lla</b> that one, the former</p>
+
+<p><b>aqu&iacute;</b> here, now; <b>hacia &#126; </b> hither; <b>por &#126; </b> hither, this way</p>
+
+<p><b>&aacute;rbol</b> <i>m.</i> tree</p>
+
+<p><b>arcabuz</b> <i>m.</i> harquebus</p>
+
+<p><b>arder</b> burn, glow</p>
+
+<p><b>ardid</b> <i>m.</i> stratagem, cunning, trick</p>
+
+<p><b>arma</b> <i>f.</i> arm, weapon;
+<i>pl</i>. troops;
+armorial bearings</p>
+
+<p><b>arrancar</b> pull, tear, force out</p>
+
+<p><b>arrastrar</b> drag, draw</p>
+
+<p><b>arrebol</b> <i>m.</i> red sky</p>
+
+<p><b>arreglar</b> arrange, dispose</p>
+
+<p><b>arrepentido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>arrepentirse</b>) repentant</p>
+
+<p><b>arrepentirse</b> <i>irreg.</i> repent</p>
+
+<p><b>arriba</b> above; <b>hasta &#126; </b> (<i>l. 384</i>) as far as the top (of the steps)</p>
+
+<p><b>arriesgado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>arriesgar</b>) risky, hazardous</p>
+
+<p><b>arriesgar</b> risk, venture</p>
+
+<p><b>arrimar</b> approach, place near; <b>&#126; un hombro</b> lend aid</p>
+
+<p><b>arrimo</b> <i>m.</i> protection, support</p>
+
+<p><b>arrodillarse</b> kneel</p>
+
+<p><b>arrogancia</b> <i>f.</i> arrogance; <b>con &#126; </b> arrogantly</p>
+
+<p><b>arrojar</b> throw, fling, cast, hurl (away)</p>
+
+<p><b>arruinar</b> ruin</p>
+
+<p><b>artista</b> <i>m. or f.</i> artist</p>
+
+<p><b>asaduras</b> <i>f. pl.</i> entrails; <b>echar las &#126; </b> laugh one's head off</p>
+
+<p><b>asaltar</b> assail; occur suddenly</p>
+
+<p><b>asentimiento</b> <i>m.</i> assent</p>
+
+<p><b>asesinar</b> assassinate, murder</p>
+
+<p><b>asesino</b> <i>m.</i> murderer, assassin</p>
+
+<p><b>as&iacute;</b> thus, so, in this way</p>
+
+<p><b>asir</b> <i>irreg.</i> seize, take, grasp; <b>&#126; se de</b> clutch, lean upon;
+take advantage of, have recourse to</p>
+
+<p><b>asomarse</b> show one's self, appear</p>
+
+<p><b>asombrar</b> surprise, astonish; <b>&#126; se de</b> be astonished at, be surprised at</p>
+
+<p><b>asombro</b> <i>m.</i> surprise, astonishment</p>
+
+<p><b>aspecto</b> <i>m.</i> aspect, look</p>
+
+<p><b>aspirar</b> aspire</p>
+
+<p><b>astucia</b> <i>f.</i> astuteness, cunning</p>
+
+<p><b>asunto</b> <i>m.</i> subject, matter, affair</p>
+
+<p><b>asustar</b> frighten</p>
+
+<p><b>atado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>atar</b>) bound</p>
+
+<p><b>atajar</b> stop, interrupt</p>
+
+<p><b>atar</b> bind</p>
+
+<p><b>atenci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> attention</p>
+
+<p><b>atender</b> <i>irreg.</i> attend, pay attention; <b>atendiendo a</b> out of respect for</p>
+
+<p><b>atentamente</b> intently</p>
+
+<p><b>aterrado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>aterrar</b>) terrified</p>
+
+<p><b>atesorar</b> treasure up, possess</p>
+
+<p><b>Atocha</b> formerly a suburb southeast of Madrid</p>
+
+<p><b>atragantar</b> choke</p>
+
+<p><b>atr&aacute;s</b> back, backward</p>
+
+<p><b>atravesar</b> <i>irreg.</i> cross, traverse</p>
+
+<p><b>atreverse a</b> dare to</p>
+
+<p><b>atrio</b> <i>m.</i> porch, portico</p>
+
+<p><b>audacia</b> <i>f.</i> audacity, boldness</p>
+
+<p><b>audaz</b> (<i>pl.</i> <b>audaces</b>) bold</p>
+
+<p><b>audiencia</b> <i>f.</i> audience</p>
+
+<p><b>aun</b> <i>or</i> <b>a&uacute;n</b> yet, still, notwithstanding, even; <b>ni &#126; </b> not even</p>
+
+<p><b>aunque</b> although</p>
+
+<p><b>aura</b> <i>f.</i> air</p>
+
+<p><b>aurora</b> <i>f.</i> dawn</p>
+
+<p><b>ausencia</b> <i>f.</i> absence</p>
+
+<p><b>autor</b> <i>m.</i> author</p>
+
+<p><b>auxiliar</b> help, aid</p>
+
+<p><b>avanzar</b> advance</p>
+
+<p><b>avisar</b> advise, warn, give notice of</p>
+
+<p><b>aviso</b> <i>m.</i> warning, notice</p>
+
+<p><b>ay</b> ah, alas; <b>&#126; de vos</b> <i>etc.</i> alas for you <i>etc.</i></p>
+
+<p><b>ayer</b> yesterday; <b>su &#126; </b> his past</p>
+
+<p><b>ayuda</b> <i>f.</i> help</p>
+
+<p><b>ayudar</b> help</p>
+
+<p><b>azar</b> <i>m.</i> accident, disappointment, hazard</p>
+
+<p><b>azorado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>azorar</b>) terrified, confused</p>
+
+<p><b>azul</b> blue <b>b&aacute;culo</b> <i>m.</i> staff</p>
+
+<p><b>bailar</b> dance</p>
+
+<p><b>baile</b> <i>m.</i> dance</p>
+
+<p><b>bajada</b> <i>f.</i> descent</p>
+
+<p><b>bajar</b> lower, descend</p>
+
+<p><b>bajo,&nbsp;-a</b> low</p>
+
+<p><b>bajo</b> under, beneath, subject to</p>
+
+<p><b>bala</b> <i>f.</i> bullet</p>
+
+<p><b>balc&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> balcony</p>
+
+<p><b>bandeja</b> <i>f.</i> tray, salver</p>
+
+<p><b>barato,&nbsp;-a</b> cheap, cheaply</p>
+
+<p><b>barbado,&nbsp;-a</b> bearded; <b>muy &#126; </b> with a very long chin</p>
+
+<p><b>barbarie</b> <i>f.</i> barbarousness, cruelty</p>
+
+<p><b>b&aacute;rbaro,&nbsp;-a</b> barbarous, cruel</p>
+
+<p><b>bastante</b> enough;
+considerably, sufficiently, quite</p>
+
+<p><b>bastar</b> be enough, suffice</p>
+
+<p><b>bastardo,&nbsp;-a</b> bastard, illegitimate</p>
+
+<p><b>batalla</b> <i>f.</i> battle</p>
+
+<p><b>batiente</b> <i>see</i> <b>mand&iacute;bula</b></p>
+
+<p><b>beldad</b> <i>f.</i> beauty</p>
+
+<p><b>Belona</b> Bellona, goddess of war, sister or wife of Mars</p>
+
+<p><b>bello,&nbsp;-a</b> beautiful</p>
+
+<p><b>bendito,&nbsp;-a</b> blessed</p>
+
+<p><b>beneficiado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>beneficiar</b>) object of benefit, person for whom a benefit performance is given</p>
+
+<p><b>beneficiar</b> benefit</p>
+
+<p><b>beneficio</b> <i>m.</i> benefit; <b>a &#126; de</b> for the benefit of</p>
+
+<p><b>beodo,&nbsp;-a</b> drunk, intoxicated</p>
+
+<p><b>besamanos</b> <i>m.</i> act of kissing the hand, salute</p>
+
+<p><b>besar</b> kiss</p>
+
+<p><b>bicho</b> <i>m.</i> small insect;
+coxcomb</p>
+
+<p><b>bien</b> well;
+very;
+all right; <b>&#126; que</b> although; <b>ahora &#126; </b> now then;
+this being so; <b>m&aacute;s &#126; </b> rather</p>
+
+<p><b>bien</b> <i>m.</i> good; <b>nunca para el &#126; fu&eacute; tarde</b> it is never too late to mend</p>
+
+<p><b>billete</b> <i>m.</i> note</p>
+
+<p><b>biso&ntilde;o,&nbsp;-a</b> inexperienced</p>
+
+<p><b>biso&ntilde;o</b> <i>m.</i> raw recruit, novice</p>
+
+<p><b>blanco,&nbsp;-a</b> white</p>
+
+<p><b>blas&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> armorial bearings, blazon;
+glory</p>
+
+<p><b>boca</b> <i>f.</i> mouth; <b>&#126; arriba</b> face upward, flat on one's back</p>
+
+<p><b>boda(s)</b> <i>f.</i> wedding</p>
+
+<p><b>bolsillo</b> <i>m.</i> pocket</p>
+
+<p><b>bondad</b> <i>f.</i> goodness, kindness, clemency</p>
+
+<p><b>Borgo&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> Burgundy (<i>see note</i>)</p>
+
+<p><b>Borja</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>borrar</b> blot, erase</p>
+
+<p><b>Braganza</b> <i>see note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>bravo,&nbsp;-a</b> brave, excellent, fine;
+bravo!</p>
+
+<p><b>brazo</b> <i>m.</i> arm</p>
+
+<p><b>breve</b> brief, short; <b>en &#126; </b> in short, in a few words</p>
+
+<p><b>brillar</b> shine, gleam</p>
+
+<p><b>brindar</b> drink a health, toast;
+offer</p>
+
+<p><b>brotar</b> bud, spring up;
+appear</p>
+
+<p><b>brusco,&nbsp;-a</b> brusque, gruff</p>
+
+<p><b>bueno,&nbsp;-a</b> good, faithful, noble, clear</p>
+
+<p><b>bulto</b> <i>m.</i> object not clearly seen, form</p>
+
+<p><b>bulla</b> <i>f.</i> crowd;
+noise, shouting (of crowd); <b>de &#126; </b> in high good humor</p>
+
+<p><b>buque</b> <i>m.</i> ship</p>
+
+<p><b>burlar</b> joke, make sport of, fool</p>
+
+<p><b>busca</b> <i>f.</i> search; <b>en &#126; de</b> in search of, after</p>
+
+<p><b>buscar</b> seek, look for, try to get <b>caballero</b> <i>m.</i> knight;
+gentleman</p>
+
+<p><b>caber</b> <i>irreg.</i> be contained in, fit, find room, have the right of admission; <b>qu&eacute; duda cabe</b> what doubt can there be</p>
+
+<p><b>cabeza</b>, <i>f.</i> head; <b>con la &#126; baja</b> with bowed head</p>
+
+<p><b>cabo</b> <i>m.</i> end; <b>al &#126; </b> finally; <b>al fin y al &#126; </b> after all is said and done</p>
+
+<p><b>cacumen</b> <i>m.</i> top, head; understanding</p>
+
+<p><b>cada</b> each; <b>&#126; cual</b> each one</p>
+
+<p><b>cad&aacute;ver</b> <i>m.</i> dead body, corpse</p>
+
+<p><b>caer</b> <i>irreg.</i> fall; be situated</p>
+
+<p><b>calar</b> penetrate; <b>&#126; el sombrero</b> press one's hat down tight</p>
+
+<p><b>calavera</b> <i>f.</i> skull</p>
+
+<p><b>calcular</b> calculate, reckon</p>
+
+<p><b>Caliope</b> the muse of eloquence and heroic poetry and chief of the muses</p>
+
+<p><b>calma</b> <i>f.</i> calm, peace</p>
+
+<p><b>calmar</b> calm, soothe</p>
+
+<p><b>calor</b> <i>m.</i> heat, warmth</p>
+
+<p><b>calumniar</b> calumniate, slander</p>
+
+<p><b>callar</b> be silent; <b>&#126; se</b> be silent</p>
+
+<p><b>calle</b> <i>f.</i> street</p>
+
+<p><b>c&aacute;mara</b> <i>f.</i> chamber</p>
+
+<p><b>cambiar (de)</b> change, exchange</p>
+
+<p><b>cambio</b> <i>m.</i> change, exchange</p>
+
+<p><b>camino</b> <i>m.</i> way, road</p>
+
+<p><b>campanada</b> <i>f.</i> stroke (of bell)</p>
+
+<p><b>campa&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> campaign</p>
+
+<p><b>cancel</b> <i>m.</i> glass screen in a church or chapel behind which is the royal seat; extreme limit or boundary</p>
+
+<p><b>candelabro</b> <i>m.</i> candelabrum</p>
+
+<p><b>candelero</b> <i>m.</i> candlestick</p>
+
+<p><b>cansado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>cansar</b>) tired, weary</p>
+
+<p><b>cansar</b> tire, weary; <b>&#126; se</b> grow tired</p>
+
+<p><b>canto</b> <i>m.</i> song, singing</p>
+
+<p><b>ca&ntilde;&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> cannon; <b>&#126; de metralla</b> long-barreled piece of artillery used formerly for firing grape-shot</p>
+
+<p><b>capa</b> <i>f.</i> cloak</p>
+
+<p><b>capaz</b> (<i>pl.</i> <b>capaces</b>) capable, able</p>
+
+<p><b>capilla</b> <i>f.</i> chapel</p>
+
+<p><b>capit&aacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> captain</p>
+
+<p><b>capricho</b> <i>m.</i> whim</p>
+
+<p><b>cara</b> <i>f.</i> face</p>
+
+<p><b>caracol</b> <i>m.</i> snail; winding staircase</p>
+
+<p><b>car&aacute;cter</b> <i>m.</i> character, condition</p>
+
+<p><b>caracterizar</b> characterize, act (a part), interpret (a part)</p>
+
+<p><b>carcajada</b> <i>f.</i> burst of laughter</p>
+
+<p><b>c&aacute;rcel</b> <i>f.</i> prison</p>
+
+<p><b>cari&ntilde;o</b> <i>m.</i> affection</p>
+
+<p><b>cari&ntilde;oso,&nbsp;-a</b> affectionate</p>
+
+<p><b>carnicero</b> <i>m.</i> butcher</p>
+
+<p><b>caro,&nbsp;-a</b> dear; <b>venderse caro</b> be sold at a high price</p>
+
+<p><b>carroza</b> <i>f.</i> state coach</p>
+
+<p><b>carta</b> <i>f.</i> letter</p>
+
+<p><b>casa</b> <i>f.</i> house</p>
+
+<p><b>casado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>casar</b>) married</p>
+
+<p><b>casar</b> marry, give in marriage; <b>&#126; se con</b> marry</p>
+
+<p><b>cascabel</b> <i>m.</i> bell</p>
+
+<p><b>cascajo</b> <i>m.</i> gravel; rubbish</p>
+
+<p><b>casi</b> almost</p>
+
+<p><b>caso</b> <i>m.</i> case; <b>hacer &#126; </b> pay attention; <b>es el &#126; que</b> the fact is that</p>
+
+<p><b>castigar</b> punish</p>
+
+<p><b>castigo</b> <i>m.</i> punishment</p>
+
+<p><b>Castilla</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>Castilla</b> <i>f.</i> Castile</p>
+
+<p><b>casualidad</b> <i>f.</i> chance, accident, coincidence</p>
+
+<p><b>catorce</b> fourteen</p>
+
+<p><b>causa</b> <i>f.</i> cause, reason; <b>por &#126; de</b> because of</p>
+
+<p><b>causar</b> cause</p>
+
+<p><b>cautelosamente</b> stealthily, cautiously; guilefully</p>
+
+<p><b>cauteloso,&nbsp;-a</b> cautious, wary; stealthy, guileful</p>
+
+<p><b>cazar</b> hunt, obtain by exercise of particular skill, catch</p>
+
+<p><b>ceder</b> cede, grant, relinquish, give in</p>
+
+<p><b>c&eacute;firo</b> <i>m.</i> zephyr</p>
+
+<p><b>cegar</b> <i>irreg.</i> grow blind, be blinded</p>
+
+<p><b>celebrar</b> celebrate, applaud</p>
+
+<p><b>celestial</b> celestial, heavenly</p>
+
+<p><b>celo</b> <i>m.</i> ardor, zeal; <b>&#126; s</b> jealousy</p>
+
+<p><b>celoso,&nbsp;-a</b> jealous</p>
+
+<p><b>centro</b> <i>m.</i> center</p>
+
+<p><b>ce&ntilde;ir</b> <i>irreg.</i> gird, crown</p>
+
+<p><b>ce&ntilde;udo,&nbsp;-a</b> frowning, ominous</p>
+
+<p><b>cerciorar</b> assure, affirm; <b>&#126; se de</b> make sure, ascertain</p>
+
+<p><b>cerebro</b> <i>m.</i> brain, mind; <b>trastornar el &#126; </b> turn one's head</p>
+
+<p><b>ceremonia</b> <i>f.</i> ceremony</p>
+
+<p><b>cerrado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>cerrar</b>) closed, inclosed</p>
+
+<p><b>cerrar</b> close; <b>&#126; el paso a</b> stand in the way of, prevent</p>
+
+<p><b>certero,&nbsp;-a</b> well aimed, unerring</p>
+
+<p><b>cesar</b> cease; <b>sin &#126; </b> incessantly</p>
+
+<p><b>cetro</b> <i>m.</i> scepter</p>
+
+<p><b>ciego,&nbsp;-a</b> blind</p>
+
+<p><b>cielo</b> <i>m.</i> heaven, heavens, sky; <b>&iexcl;&#126; s!</b> great heavens!</p>
+
+<p><b>cien</b> one hundred</p>
+
+<p><b>cieno</b> <i>m.</i> filth, mud, mire</p>
+
+<p><b>ciertamente</b> certainly, surely</p>
+
+<p><b>cierto,&nbsp;-a</b> certain; certainly; <b>por &#126; </b> to be sure; <b>de &#126; </b> certainly</p>
+
+<p><b>cinco</b> five; <b>las &#126; </b> five o'clock</p>
+
+<p><b>cisne</b> <i>m.</i> swan; singer, poet, bard</p>
+
+<p><b>cita</b> <i>f.</i> appointment, rendezvous, tryst</p>
+
+<p><b>citar</b> summon, make an appointment with</p>
+
+<p><b>ciudad</b> <i>f.</i> city</p>
+
+<p><b>ciza&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> darnel; <b>sembrar &#126; </b> sow tares, sow discord</p>
+
+<p><b>clamor</b> <i>m.</i> clamor, uproar</p>
+
+<p><b>clarito,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>dimin. of</i> <b>claro</b>); <b>pronto y clarito</b> <i>see</i> <b>pronto</b></p>
+
+<p><b>claro,&nbsp;-a</b> clear; <b>claro est&aacute;</b> it is evident</p>
+
+<p><b>claustro</b> <i>m.</i> cloister</p>
+
+<p><b>clavar</b> fix, nail, fasten, transfix</p>
+
+<p><b>cobarde</b> cowardly;
+<b>nunca pequ&eacute; de &#126; </b> I was never guilty of cowardice</p>
+
+<p><b>cobarde</b> <i>m.</i> coward</p>
+
+<p><b>cobrar</b> gain, draw (pay); collect (debt)</p>
+
+<p><b>coche</b> <i>m.</i> coach, carriage</p>
+
+<p><b>codo</b> <i>m.</i> elbow; <b>por cogote y &#126; s</b> <i>see</i> <b>cogote</b></p>
+
+<p><b>cogote</b> <i>m.</i> back of neck; <b>discurro hasta por &#126; y codos</b> I am racking my brains with a club</p>
+
+<p><b>c&oacute;lera</b> <i>f.</i> anger</p>
+
+<p><b>col&eacute;rico,&nbsp;-a</b> choleric, angry</p>
+
+<p><b>colmar (de, con)</b> heap upon, bestow liberally, fill, lavish upon</p>
+
+<p><b>colocado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>colocar</b>) placed</p>
+
+<p><b>colocar</b> place</p>
+
+<p><b>color</b> <i>m.</i> color; <b>&#126; es</b> color</p>
+
+<p><b>colorar</b> paint, tinge, color; <b>&#126; se</b> blush, redden</p>
+
+<p><b>columbrar</b> spy, discern at a distance, descry</p>
+
+<p><b>columna</b> <i>f.</i> column, pillar</p>
+
+<p><b>combatir</b> combat, fight</p>
+
+<p><b>comenzar</b> <i>irreg.</i> commence, begin</p>
+
+<p><b>comer</b> eat; <b>&#126; se</b> <i>adds a little energy to the verb</i></p>
+
+<p><b>comitiva</b> <i>f.</i> suite, retinue</p>
+
+<p><b>como</b> as, as if, like, if only, provided that; <b>&#126; puedo</b> as best I can; <b>&#126; si</b> as if</p>
+
+<p><b>c&oacute;mo</b> how, why, what, is it possible; <b>el &#126; </b> the way of it</p>
+
+<p><b>compa&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> company, escort</p>
+
+<p><b>compa&ntilde;&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> company</p>
+
+<p><b>compasi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> compassion, pity; <b>por &#126; </b> for pity's sake</p>
+
+<p><b>competir</b> <i>irreg.</i> compete, rival</p>
+
+<p><b>complacencia</b> <i>f.</i> complacency</p>
+
+<p><b>completar</b> to complete</p>
+
+<p><b>completo,&nbsp;-a</b> complete</p>
+
+<p><b>componer</b> <i>irreg.</i> compose</p>
+
+<p><b>comprado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>comprar</b>) bought</p>
+
+<p><b>comprar</b> buy</p>
+
+<p><b>comprender</b> understand, grasp</p>
+
+<p><b>comprensi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> comprehension</p>
+
+<p><b>com&uacute;n</b> common</p>
+
+<p><b>comuni&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> communion, fellowship, association</p>
+
+<p><b>con</b> with, by, among; on account of; <b>&#126; todo</b> after all, nevertheless</p>
+
+<p><b>conceder</b> concede, grant</p>
+
+<p><b>concentrado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>concentrar</b>) concentrated, tense</p>
+
+<p><b>conciliar</b> conciliate, compose, bring into agreement; arrange</p>
+
+<p><b>concluir</b> <i>irreg.</i> conclude, finish</p>
+
+<p><b>conde</b> <i>m.</i> count</p>
+
+<p><b>condenado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>condenar</b>) condemned</p>
+
+<p><b>condici&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> condition, rank, class; stipulation, circumstance;
+<b>&#126; oscura</b> obscure origin, low birth</p>
+
+<p><b>conducido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>conducir</b>) led, conducted</p>
+
+<p><b>conducir</b> <i>irreg.</i> conduct, convoy, lead</p>
+
+<p><b>confesar</b> <i>irreg.</i> confess</p>
+
+<p><b>confesi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> confession</p>
+
+<p><b>confianza</b> <i>f.</i> confidence</p>
+
+<p><b>confiar</b> trust, hope, have confidence</p>
+
+<p><b>conforme</b> alike, corresponding to, as; <b>&#126; a</b> consistent with; <b>seg&uacute;n y &#126; </b> <i>see</i> <b>seg&uacute;n</b></p>
+
+<p><b>confundir</b> confuse, confound; <b>mezquino entre los hombres me confundo</b> I am worthless as men
+go; <b>&#126; se</b> be bewildered, be perplexed, be puzzled</p>
+
+<p><b>confusi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> confusion</p>
+
+<p><b>confuso,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>confundir</b>) confused, in confusion</p>
+
+<p><b>conjetura</b> <i>f.</i> conjecture, guess</p>
+
+<p><b>conjurar</b> conjure; implore; avert</p>
+
+<p><b>conjuro</b> <i>m.</i> incantation, charm; entreaty</p>
+
+<p><b>conmigo</b> with me, on my side</p>
+
+<p><b>conocer</b> <i>irreg.</i> know, be acquainted with, recognize</p>
+
+<p><b>conocido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>conocer</b>) known, recognized, well known</p>
+
+<p><b>conque</b> so then</p>
+
+<p><b>conquista</b> <i>f.</i> conquest</p>
+
+<p><b>conquistar</b> win</p>
+
+<p><b>consagrado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>consagrar</b>) consecrated</p>
+
+<p><b>consagrar</b> consecrate, devote; direct</p>
+
+<p><b>conseguir</b> <i>irreg.</i> obtain, attain, succeed</p>
+
+<p><b>consejo</b> <i>m.</i> council; advice, counsel</p>
+
+<p><b>conservar</b> keep</p>
+
+<p><b>consignar</b> consign, devote; state in writing</p>
+
+<p><b>consigo</b> with <i>or</i> by himself <i>etc.</i></p>
+
+<p><b>consonancia</b> <i>f.</i> consonance, rime</p>
+
+<p><b>consonante</b> <i>m.</i> a rime</p>
+
+<p><b>conspirar</b> conspire, plot</p>
+
+<p><b>constar</b> <i>impers.</i> be clear, be evident, be recorded</p>
+
+<p><b>consuelo</b> <i>m.</i> consolation, comfort</p>
+
+<p><b>consultar</b> consult; advise; determine (of administrative body)</p>
+
+<p><b>consumir</b> consume</p>
+
+<p><b>contacto</b> <i>m.</i> contact, touch</p>
+
+<p><b>contado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>contar</b>) counted, told; <b>por de &#126; </b> of course</p>
+
+<p><b>contar</b> <i>irreg.</i> count, tell, relate; <b>&#126; con</b> count upon, reckon with</p>
+
+<p><b>contemplar</b> contemplate, regard, watch</p>
+
+<p><b>contener</b> <i>irreg.</i> contain</p>
+
+<p><b>contentamiento</b> <i>m.</i> contentment, satisfaction</p>
+
+<p><b>contentar</b> content, please</p>
+
+<p><b>contento,&nbsp;-a</b> content, satisfied, happy, pleased</p>
+
+<p><b>contento</b> <i>m.</i> contentment</p>
+
+<p><b>contexto</b> <i>m.</i> context, contents</p>
+
+<p><b>contigo</b> with you</p>
+
+<p><b>continuaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> continuation; <b>a &#126; </b> below</p>
+
+<p><b>contra</b> against; <b>en mi &#126; </b> against me, to my disadvantage</p>
+
+<p><b>contrario,&nbsp;-a</b> opposed, contrary; <b>por el &#126; </b> on the contrary</p>
+
+<p><b>contrario</b> <i>m.</i> opponent, antagonist, adversary</p>
+
+<p><b>contraste</b> <i>m.</i> contrast</p>
+
+<p><b>convencer</b> convince</p>
+
+<p><b>conveniencia</b> <i>f.</i> convention, convenience</p>
+
+<p><b>conveniente</b> suitable, convenient</p>
+
+<p><b>convenir</b> <i>irreg.</i> suit, become, be advantageous</p>
+
+<p><b>convento</b> <i>m.</i> convent</p>
+
+<p><b>conversaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> conversation; subject of conversation</p>
+
+<p><b>convertido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>convertir</b>) converted, changed</p>
+
+<p><b>convertir</b> <i>irreg.</i> convert</p>
+
+<p><b>convicci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> conviction, firm belief</p>
+
+<p><b>convulsi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> convulsion</p>
+
+<p><b>convulsivamente</b> convulsively</p>
+
+<p><b>convulsivo,&nbsp;-a</b> convulsive</p>
+
+<p><b>copa</b> <i>f.</i> cup, goblet, vase</p>
+
+<p><b>copiar</b> copy</p>
+
+<p><b>coraz&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> heart; courage</p>
+
+<p><b>corchete</b> <i>m.</i> bailiff</p>
+
+<p><b>cordero</b> <i>m.</i> lamb</p>
+
+<p><b>corona</b> <i>f.</i> crown, diadem</p>
+
+<p><b>coronar</b> crown</p>
+
+<p><b>Corpus</b> <i>see note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>corredor</b> <i>m.</i> corridor</p>
+
+<p><b>correr</b> run, circulate</p>
+
+<p><b>corro</b> <i>m.</i> group, circle</p>
+
+<p><b>cortado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>cortar</b>) cut; broken (of phrase)</p>
+
+<p><b>cortar</b> cut, cut off, cut out</p>
+
+<p><b>corte</b> <i>f.</i> court; capital</p>
+
+<p><b>cortesano,&nbsp;-a</b> pertaining to the court, courtier</p>
+
+<p><b>cortesano</b> <i>m.</i> courtier</p>
+
+<p><b>cortes&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> courtesy, compliment, attention, bow</p>
+
+<p><b>corto,&nbsp;-a</b> short; <b>&#126; de vista</b> near-sighted</p>
+
+<p><b>cosa</b> <i>f.</i> thing, matter, affair; <b>&#126; s de Quevedo son</b> it is some folly of Quevedo's, it is some prank of Quevedo's; <b>&#126; es clara</b> it is clear enough</p>
+
+<p><b>costa</b> <i>f.</i> cost; <b>a &#126; de</b> at the cost of</p>
+
+<p><b>costumbre</b> <i>f.</i> custom; <b>es &#126; </b> it is customary</p>
+
+<p><b>costurera</b> <i>f.</i> seamstress, dress-maker</p>
+
+<p><b>cota</b> <i>f.</i> coat of mail; armor</p>
+
+<p><b>creador,&nbsp;-a</b> creator</p>
+
+<p><b>crear</b> create</p>
+
+<p><b>crecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> grow</p>
+
+<p><b>credencial</b> lending credit, lending authority</p>
+
+<p><b>credencial</b> <i>f.</i> credential</p>
+
+<p><b>credo</b> <i>m.</i> creed; <b>con el &#126; en la boca</b> facing death or danger</p>
+
+<p><b>creer</b> believe, think</p>
+
+<p><b>criba</b> <i>f.</i> crib</p>
+
+<p><b>crimen</b> <i>m.</i> crime, guilt</p>
+
+<p><b>crispado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>crispar</b>) clenched</p>
+
+<p><b>cristiano,&nbsp;-a</b> Christian</p>
+
+<p><b>Cristo</b> Christ; <b>por &#126; </b> <i>an emphatic oath</i>, by heavens!</p>
+
+<p><b>cruel</b> cruel</p>
+
+<p><b>crujir</b> crackle, creak</p>
+
+<p><b>cruz</b> <i>f.</i> cross</p>
+
+<p><b>cruzado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>cruzar</b>); <b>&#126; de brazos, con los brazos cruzados</b>, with folded arms</p>
+
+<p><b>cruzar</b> cross, traverse</p>
+
+<p><b>cuadrar</b> suit, be appropriate</p>
+
+<p><b>cual</b> like, as; <b>&#126; nunca</b> as never before; <b>cada &#126; </b> each one</p>
+
+<p><b>cu&aacute;l</b> which, which one</p>
+
+<p><b>cualquier</b> <i>see</i> <b>cualquiera</b></p>
+
+<p><b>cualquiera</b> whatever, whoever, anybody, any; <b>ser un &#126; </b> be of no account, be a nobody</p>
+
+<p><b>cuando</b> when, as, since</p>
+
+<p><b>cu&aacute;ndo</b> when?</p>
+
+<p><b>cuanto,&nbsp;-a</b> how much (<i>pl.</i> how many), as much, as much as, all that, what, how; <b>&#126; m&aacute;s... m&aacute;s</b> the more... the more; <b>&#126; menos... menos</b> the less... the less</p>
+
+<p><b>cu&aacute;nto,&nbsp;-a</b> how much, how; <i>pl.</i> how many, how much, how!</p>
+
+<p><b>cuarteto</b> <i>m.</i> quatrain</p>
+
+<p><b>cuarto,&nbsp;-a</b> fourth</p>
+
+<p><b>cuatro</b> four</p>
+
+<p><b>cubierto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>cubrir</b>) covered</p>
+
+<p><b>cubrir</b> <i>irreg.</i> cover; <b>&#126; se</b> cover one's head</p>
+
+<p><b>cuchillada</b> <i>f.</i> knife-cut, slash with a knife; quarrel</p>
+
+<p><b>cuchillo</b> <i>m.</i> knife</p>
+
+<p><b>cuenta</b> <i>f.</i> account; <b>eso de mi &#126; corre</b> that is my affair; <b>tener en &#126; </b> take into account, remember</p>
+
+<p><b>cuento</b> <i>m.</i> story, tale; <b>&#126; de alabarda</b> ferrule, end of halberd</p>
+
+<p><b>cuerdo,&nbsp;-a</b> sensible, wise</p>
+
+<p><b>cuerpo</b> <i>m.</i> body, substance; <b>tomar m&aacute;s &#126; </b> grow firmer</p>
+
+<p><b>cuesti&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> question, subject, matter under consideration</p>
+
+<p><b>cuidado</b> <i>m.</i> care, pains</p>
+
+<p><b>cuidar</b> take care</p>
+
+<p><b>cuita</b> <i>f.</i> affliction, trouble</p>
+
+<p><b>culebra</b> <i>f.</i> serpent, snake</p>
+
+<p><b>culpa</b> <i>f.</i> blame, fault, guilt</p>
+
+<p><b>cumplido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>cumplir</b>) large, full, ample; <b>cumplida merced</b> signal favor</p>
+
+<p><b>cumplir</b> fulfill, carry out, execute; be fit, be convenient</p>
+
+<p><b>curiosidad</b> <i>f.</i> curiosity</p>
+
+<p><b>curioso,&nbsp;-a</b> curious, inquiring <b>chacota</b> <i>f.</i> uproarious mirth</p>
+
+<p><b>chancero,&nbsp;-a</b> jocose, merry</p>
+
+<p><b>chanza</b> <i>f.</i> joke, jest; <b>estar de &#126; </b> be joking, be in a joking mood</p>
+
+<p><b>chato,&nbsp;-a</b> flat, flat-nosed; <b>chata raz&oacute;n</b> stunted intellect</p>
+
+<p><b>chist</b> ssh, hush</p>
+
+<p><b>chiste</b> <i>m.</i> joke</p>
+
+<p><b>chistoso,&nbsp;-a</b> cheerful, funny <b>dado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>dar</b>) given to, devoted to</p>
+
+<p><b>dama</b> <i>f.</i> lady</p>
+
+<p><b>dar</b> <i>irreg.</i> give, cause; <b>&#126; con</b> find, come upon; <b>&#126; en</b> strike, touch, happen, come to; <b>&#126; fin</b> end, come to an end; <b>&#126; muerte</b> kill; <b>&#126; muestras</b> show signs; <b>&#126; un paso</b> take a step; <b>&#126; principio</b> begin; <b>&#126; la vuelta</b> return; <b>&#126; la hora</b> strike the hour; <b>un soneto da catorce</b> a sonnet makes fourteen</p>
+
+<p><b>de</b> of, from, for, through, at, in, by, with, than; <b>&#126; cierto</b> certainly; <b>&#126; improviso</b> unexpectedly; <b>&#126; nuevo</b> again, anew; <b>&#126; seguro</b> surely, undoubtedly</p>
+
+<p><b>deber</b> owe, ought, must, be to</p>
+
+<p><b>deber</b> <i>m.</i> duty</p>
+
+<p><b>debido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>deber</b>) due</p>
+
+<p><b>d&eacute;bil</b> weak, fragile, feeble</p>
+
+<p><b>decir</b> <i>irreg.</i> say; <b>es &#126; </b> that is</p>
+
+<p><b>declarar</b> declare</p>
+
+<p><b>decoraci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> setting</p>
+
+<p><b>decoro</b> <i>m.</i> respect, reverence due a person</p>
+
+<p><b>dedicar</b> dedicate, devote</p>
+
+<p><b>dedo</b> <i>m.</i> finger</p>
+
+<p><b>defender</b> <i>irreg.</i> defend</p>
+
+<p><b>defensa</b> <i>f.</i> defense</p>
+
+<p><b>deferencia</b> <i>f.</i> deference, condescension</p>
+
+<p><b>dejar</b> leave, leave off, cease, let, permit; <b>&#126; de</b> (<i>infin.</i>) cease <i>etc.</i>; <b>&#126; caer</b> drop; <b>&#126; paso</b> give way before, let pass</p>
+
+<p><b>del</b> = <b>de</b> + <b>el</b></p>
+
+<p><b>delante</b> in front, before; <b>&#126; de</b> before, in front of</p>
+
+<p><b>delirar</b> be delirious, rave; talk nonsense</p>
+
+<p><b>delirio</b> <i>m.</i> delirium</p>
+
+<p><b>delito</b> <i>m.</i> crime</p>
+
+<p><b>demanda</b> <i>f.</i> demand, petition, request</p>
+
+<p><b>dem&aacute;s</b> further, besides, in addition; <b>lo &#126; </b> the rest; <b>los &#126; </b> the rest, the others;
+<i>with a pl. without art.</i> other</p>
+
+<p><b>demasiado,&nbsp;-a</b> too much, too many</p>
+
+<p><b>demonio</b> <i>m.</i> devil; the devil! the deuce!</p>
+
+<p><b>demora</b> <i>f.</i> delay</p>
+
+<p><b>dentro</b> within, inside; <b>&#126; de</b> within, inside of</p>
+
+<p><b>derecho,&nbsp;-a</b> straight; right (<i>opposed to</i> <b>izquierdo</b>)</p>
+
+<p><b>derecho</b> straight, direct, directly</p>
+
+<p><b>derechura</b> <i>f.</i>: <b>en &#126; </b> directly, straight</p>
+
+<p><b>derrocar</b> overthrow, demolish</p>
+
+<p><b>derrumbarse</b> fall headlong; crumble away</p>
+
+<p><b>desafuero</b> <i>m.</i> injustice, outrage</p>
+
+<p><b>desaliento</b> <i>m.</i> dismay, dejection</p>
+
+<p><b>desamparo</b> <i>m.</i> abandonment, helplessness</p>
+
+<p><b>desaparecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> disappear</p>
+
+<p><b>desatarse</b> break loose, break out</p>
+
+<p><b>desatinado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>desatinar</b>) wild, incoherent, foolish</p>
+
+<p><b>desatino</b> <i>m.</i> foolish act, folly, error</p>
+
+<p><b>desaz&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> displeasure, annoyance, offense</p>
+
+<p><b>descansado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>descansar</b>) easy, quiet; comfortable, at ease</p>
+
+<p><b>descansar</b> rest</p>
+
+<p><b>descanso</b> <i>m.</i> rest</p>
+
+<p><b>descolorido,&nbsp;-a</b> discolored, pale</p>
+
+<p><b>desconcertar</b> <i>irreg.</i> disconcert, disturb, confuse</p>
+
+<p><b>descubierto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>descubrir</b>) uncovered, bare</p>
+
+<p><b>descubrir</b> <i>irreg.</i> reveal, discover, uncover</p>
+
+<p><b>desde</b> from, since; <b>&#126; luego</b> at once; <b>&#126; que</b> since, that</p>
+
+<p><b>desd&eacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> disdain, scorn</p>
+
+<p><b>desde&ntilde;osamente</b> disdainfully</p>
+
+<p><b>desde&ntilde;oso,&nbsp;-a</b> disdainful, scornful</p>
+
+<p><b>desdichado,&nbsp;-a</b> unhappy, unfortunate</p>
+
+<p><b>desdoblar</b> unfold</p>
+
+<p><b>desear</b> desire, wish</p>
+
+<p><b>desechar</b> reject, put aside</p>
+
+<p><b>desembarazarse</b> uncover one's self, disembarrass one's self; <b>&#126; de</b> relieve one's self of</p>
+
+<p><b>desenga&ntilde;o</b> <i>m.</i> discovery of an error, disillusionment, disappointment</p>
+
+<p><b>desentonado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>desentonar</b>) out of tune, gruff</p>
+
+<p><b>desenvainar</b> unsheathe, draw</p>
+
+<p><b>desesperaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> desperation, despair; passion</p>
+
+<p><b>desfallecimiento</b> <i>m.</i> weakness, dejection</p>
+
+<p><b>desfilar</b> defile, march by files, pass in review</p>
+
+<p><b>desgarrar</b> rend, tear</p>
+
+<p><b>desgracia</b> <i>f.</i> misfortune; <b>por &#126; </b> unfortunately</p>
+
+<p><b>desgraciado,&nbsp;-a</b> unfortunate, object of misfortune</p>
+
+<p><b>deshacerse de</b> <i>irreg.</i> get rid of</p>
+
+<p><b>deshonrar</b> dishonor</p>
+
+<p><b>designio</b> <i>m.</i> design, plan, intention</p>
+
+<p><b>desigual</b> unequal</p>
+
+<p><b>desle&iacute;rse</b> <i>irreg.</i> dilute, weaken, dissolve, melt</p>
+
+<p><b>desm&aacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> excess in words or action, insulting breach of etiquette, affront</p>
+
+<p><b>desmayado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>desmayar</b>) fainting, in a faint</p>
+
+<p><b>desmayar</b> be dispirited; dismay, discourage; <b>&#126; se</b> faint, grow faint</p>
+
+<p><b>desnudo,&nbsp;-a</b> naked, bare, drawn</p>
+
+<p><b>desollar</b> <i>irreg.</i> flay, skin</p>
+
+<p><b>desorden</b> <i>m.</i> disorder, confusion, turmoil</p>
+
+<p><b>despacio</b> slow, slowly, at leisure</p>
+
+<p><b>despacito</b> (<i>dimin. of</i> <b>despacio</b>) at leisure</p>
+
+<p><b>despacho</b> <i>m.</i> dispatch, official communication</p>
+
+<p><b>despecho</b> <i>m.</i> spite, malevolence</p>
+
+<p><b>despedida</b> <i>f.</i> good-by, farewell; <b>hacer &#126; </b> take leave of</p>
+
+<p><b>despedirse de</b> <i>irreg.</i> say good-by to, take leave of</p>
+
+<p><b>despreciado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>despreciar</b>) scorned</p>
+
+<p><b>despreciar</b> scorn, despise</p>
+
+<p><b>despreciativo,&nbsp;-a</b> scornful</p>
+
+<p><b>desprecio</b> <i>m.</i> scorn</p>
+
+<p><b>despu&eacute;s</b> after, then, later, afterward; <b>&#126; de</b> after</p>
+
+<p><b>desterrado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>desterrar</b>) banished</p>
+
+<p><b>desterrar</b> <i>irreg.</i> banish</p>
+
+<p><b>destierro</b> <i>m.</i> banishment, exile</p>
+
+<p><b>destino</b> <i>m.</i> destiny, fate</p>
+
+<p><b>destruir</b> <i>irreg.</i> destroy</p>
+
+<p><b>desvanecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> vanish</p>
+
+<p><b>desvar&iacute;o</b> <i>m.</i> extravagant action, delirium; <b>con &#126; </b> distractedly, wildly</p>
+
+<p><b>desventura</b> <i>f.</i> ill fortune, calamity, misery, unhappiness</p>
+
+<p><b>desventurado,&nbsp;-a</b> unhappy, luckless</p>
+
+<p><b>desviar</b> turn aside, ward off, thrust aside; <b>&#126; se</b> turn aside, turn away, take the wrong road</p>
+
+<p><b>detener</b> <i>irreg.</i> detain, stop; <b>&#126; se</b> stop</p>
+
+<p><b>determinar</b> determine, decide</p>
+
+<p><b>detr&aacute;s</b> back, behind; <b>&#126; de</b> after, in pursuit of; <b>por &#126; </b> behind, from behind</p>
+
+<p><b>deuda</b> <i>f.</i> debt</p>
+
+<p><b>devoci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> devotion;
+<i>pl.</i> devotions (religious)</p>
+
+<p><b>devolver</b> <i>irreg.</i> return, restore</p>
+
+<p><b>d&iacute;a</b> <i>m.</i> day, light of day; <b>alg&uacute;n &#126; </b> some day, once; <b>todo el &#126; </b> all day</p>
+
+<p><b>diablo</b> <i>m.</i> devil; <b>qu&eacute; &#126; s</b> what the deuce</p>
+
+<p><b>dicha</b> <i>f.</i> happiness</p>
+
+<p><b>dicho,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>decir</b>) said, (the) aforesaid, same</p>
+
+<p><b>dicho</b> <i>m.</i> saying</p>
+
+<p><b>dichoso,&nbsp;-a</b> happy, prosperous, fortunate</p>
+
+<p><b>diente</b> <i>m.</i> tooth</p>
+
+<p><b>diestro,&nbsp;-a</b> skillful, expert, prudent, cunning</p>
+
+<p><b>diez</b> ten; <b>para las &#126; </b> for ten o'clock</p>
+
+<p><b>diferente</b> different</p>
+
+<p><b>diferir</b> <i>irreg.</i> defer, delay, postpone</p>
+
+<p><b>dif&iacute;cil</b> difficult</p>
+
+<p><b>dignarse</b> deign, condescend</p>
+
+<p><b>dignidad</b> <i>f.</i> dignity</p>
+
+<p><b>digno,&nbsp;-a</b> worthy</p>
+
+<p><b>dilaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> delay</p>
+
+<p><b>dilatarse</b> broaden, grow broad</p>
+
+<p><b>dinero</b> <i>m.</i> money, funds</p>
+
+<p><b>dios</b> <i>m.</i> god, God; <b>vive &#126; </b> <i>see</i> <b>vivir</b>; <b>gran &#126; </b> great heavens! <b>&#126; m&iacute;o</b> heavens!</p>
+
+<p><b>direcci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> direction</p>
+
+<p><b>director</b> <i>m.</i> director; <b>&#126; de escena</b> stage-manager</p>
+
+<p><b>dirigir</b> direct, address; <b>&#126; se</b> go, turn (toward), make one's way (toward)</p>
+
+<p><b>discreci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> discretion, judgment, prudence</p>
+
+<p><b>discreto,&nbsp;-a</b> discreet; witty</p>
+
+<p><b>discurrir</b> reflect, reason; plan, scheme</p>
+
+<p><b>disgusto</b> <i>m.</i> disgust, annoyance, unpleasantness</p>
+
+<p><b>disiparse</b> fade away</p>
+
+<p><b>disparar</b> shoot, fire off</p>
+
+<p><b>disparo</b> <i>m.</i> discharge, shot (of firearm)</p>
+
+<p><b>dispensar</b> dispense, grant, excuse</p>
+
+<p><b>disponer</b> <i>irreg.</i> arrange, dispose, order, direct</p>
+
+<p><b>dispuesto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>disponer</b>) prepared, ready</p>
+
+<p><b>disputar</b> dispute, debate, argue, quarrel</p>
+
+<p><b>distancia</b> <i>f.</i> distance</p>
+
+<p><b>distinci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> distinction</p>
+
+<p><b>distinguido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>distinguir</b>) distinguished, eminent</p>
+
+<p><b>distinguir</b> <i>irreg.</i> distinguish, single out</p>
+
+<p><b>distinto,&nbsp;-a</b> distinct, different</p>
+
+<p><b>distracci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> distraction, absent-mindedness</p>
+
+<p><b>diversi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> diversion, amusement</p>
+
+<p><b>divertido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>divertir</b>) amusing</p>
+
+<p><b>divertir</b> <i>irreg.</i> divert, turn away; amuse</p>
+
+<p><b>diz</b> it is said, people say</p>
+
+<p><b>doblar</b> double, bend</p>
+
+<p><b>doblez</b> (<i>pl.</i> <b>dobleces</b>) fold, crease; <b>en tres dobleces</b> thrice folded</p>
+
+<p><b>dogal</b> <i>m.</i> halter, noose, hangman's rope</p>
+
+<p><b>dolor</b> <i>m.</i> grief, sorrow, pain</p>
+
+<p><b>dominado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>dominar</b>) dominated; <b>&#126; por la situaci&oacute;n</b> overwhelmed by the situation</p>
+
+<p><b>dominador,&nbsp;-a</b> dominating</p>
+
+<p><b>dominador</b> <i>m.</i> dominator</p>
+
+<p><b>dominar</b> dominate</p>
+
+<p><b>dominio</b> <i>m.</i> dominion</p>
+
+<p><b>domini&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> dominion</p>
+
+<p><b>don, do&ntilde;a</b>, <i>title of courtesy given to gentleman or lady, now equivalent
+to</i> Mr. <i>etc., but used only before given names</i></p>
+
+<p><b>donaire</b> <i>m.</i> witticism, joke, humor</p>
+
+<p><b>donde</b> where, in which; <b>en &#126; </b> in which; <b>a &#126; </b> whither</p>
+
+<p><b>d&oacute;nde</b> where? <b>a &#126; </b> whither? <b>en &#126; </b> where?</p>
+
+<p><b>doquier</b> anywhere, wherever, everywhere</p>
+
+<p><b>dormir</b> <i>irreg.</i> sleep; <b>&#126; se</b> fall asleep</p>
+
+<p><b>dos</b> two; <b>los (las) &#126; </b> both</p>
+
+<p><b>dosel</b> <i>m.</i> canopy, dais</p>
+
+<p><b>drama</b> <i>m.</i> drama, play</p>
+
+<p><b>ducado</b> <i>m.</i> duchy</p>
+
+<p><b>ducho,&nbsp;-a</b> skillful, experienced</p>
+
+<p><b>duda</b> <i>f.</i> doubt</p>
+
+<p><b>dudar</b> doubt, hesitate; <b>&#126; de</b> doubt</p>
+
+<p><b>duelo</b> <i>m.</i> duel, combat; sorrow; <b>duelo ni quebranto</b> <i>see note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>due&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> duenna, lady-in-waiting</p>
+
+<p><b>dulce</b> sweet, gentle</p>
+
+<p><b>dulzura</b> <i>f.</i> sweetness, gentleness; <b>con &#126; </b> graciously, gently</p>
+
+<p><b>duque</b> <i>m.</i> duke</p>
+
+<p><b>duquesa</b> <i>f.</i> duchess</p>
+
+<p><b>durante</b> during</p>
+
+<p><b>dureza</b> <i>f.</i> rigor, severity</p>
+
+<p><b>duro,&nbsp;-a</b> hard, cruel; thankless, costly <b>e</b> and</p>
+
+<p><b>ea</b> come!</p>
+
+<p><b>eco</b> <i>m.</i> echo</p>
+
+<p><b>echado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>echar</b>): <b>con el velo echado</b> with her veil drawn, with her veil let down</p>
+
+<p><b>echar</b> throw, cast; <b>&#126; el aliento</b> blow; <b>&#126; abajo</b> pull down, draw down; <b>&#126; a re&iacute;r</b> burst out laughing</p>
+
+<p><b>edad</b> <i>f.</i> age</p>
+
+<p><b>el, la, lo</b>, <i>pl.</i> <b>los, las</b>, the</p>
+
+<p><b>&eacute;l</b>, <i>pl.</i> <b>ellos</b>, he, him, it</p>
+
+<p><b>elefante</b> <i>m.</i> elephant</p>
+
+<p><b>elegir</b> <i>irreg.</i> choose</p>
+
+<p><b>elogio</b> <i>m.</i> eulogy, praise</p>
+
+<p><b>ella</b> she, her</p>
+
+<p><b>ello</b> it; <b>&#126; es que</b> the fact is that; <b>&#126; por &#126; </b> a fair exchange</p>
+
+<p><b>embajador</b> <i>m.</i> ambassador</p>
+
+<p><b>embargo</b>: <b>sin &#126; </b> nevertheless</p>
+
+<p><b>emboscada</b> <i>f.</i> ambuscade, surprise</p>
+
+<p><b>embozado,&nbsp;-a</b> <i>pp. of</i> <b>embozar</b></p>
+
+<p><b>embozarse</b> muffle one's self, fasten upper part (<b>embozo</b>) of cloak about neck and throat</p>
+
+<p><b>embozo</b> <i>m.</i> muffler, fold of cloak that covers lower part of face; disguise</p>
+
+<p><b>eminente</b> eminent, signal, distinguished</p>
+
+<p><b>emoci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> emotion</p>
+
+<p><b>empe&ntilde;arse en</b> persist, endeavor, insist upon</p>
+
+<p><b>empezar</b> <i>irreg.</i> begin</p>
+
+<p><b>empinar</b> raise; <b>&#126; el codo</b> raise the glass, crook one's elbow</p>
+
+<p><b>empresa</b> <i>f.</i> undertaking, enterprise</p>
+
+<p><b>en</b> in, on, upon, at, into, to; <b>&#126; mi contra</b> against me, to my disadvantage; <b>&#126; cuanto</b> as soon as; <b>&#126; pos de</b> after, behind; <b>&#126; torno de</b> about, around</p>
+
+<p><b>enaltecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> raise aloft, exalt;
+heighten</p>
+
+<p><b>enamorar</b> enamor, inspire love;
+charm; <b>&#126; se de</b>, <b>&#126; se con</b>, fall in love with</p>
+
+<p><b>encaminar</b> guide, direct; <b>&#126; se</b> go toward, start</p>
+
+<p><b>encanto</b> <i>m.</i> charms, attractions</p>
+
+<p><b>encarado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>encarar</b>): <b>mal &#126; </b> ill-featured, badly adjusted</p>
+
+<p><b>encarar</b> face, point; <b>&#126; se con</b> face, confront</p>
+
+<p><b>encarecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> extol, exaggerate, emphasize</p>
+
+<p><b>encarecimiento</b> <i>m.</i> exaggeration</p>
+
+<p><b>encargar</b> recommend, charge, commend; <b>&#126; se de</b> take charge of, take upon one's self</p>
+
+<p><b>encender</b> <i>irreg.</i> kindle</p>
+
+<p><b>encerrar</b> <i>irreg.</i> inclose, contain</p>
+
+<p><b>encoger</b> contract; discourage; <b>&#126; se de hombros</b> shrug one's shoulders</p>
+
+<p><b>encomendar</b> <i>irreg.</i> commend, commit, entrust</p>
+
+<p><b>encomio</b> <i>m.</i> encomium, eulogy, praise</p>
+
+<p><b>encono</b> <i>m.</i> malevolence, ill will</p>
+
+<p><b>encontrar</b> <i>irreg.</i> find, encounter; see; <b>&#126; se</b> be</p>
+
+<p><b>encresparse</b> grow rough, grow choppy (of sea)</p>
+
+<p><b>encubierto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>encubrir</b>) hidden, masked</p>
+
+<p><b>encuentro</b> <i>m.</i> encounter, meeting; <b>salir al &#126; de</b> come out to meet</p>
+
+<p><b>endulzar</b> sweeten, soften, lighten</p>
+
+<p><b>enemigo,&nbsp;-a</b> hostile</p>
+
+<p><b>enemigo</b> <i>m.</i> enemy</p>
+
+<p><b>&eacute;nfasis</b> <i>m.</i> emphasis</p>
+
+<p><b>enfermo,&nbsp;-a</b> ill, sick, suffering</p>
+
+<p><b>enga&ntilde;ar</b> deceive; <b>&#126; se</b> make a mistake, be mistaken</p>
+
+<p><b>engaste</b> <i>m.</i> setting (of jewels)</p>
+
+<p><b>engolfado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>engolfar</b>) engulfed, absorbed</p>
+
+<p><b>engrandecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> aggrandize, ennoble, exalt</p>
+
+<p><b>enhiesto,&nbsp;-a</b> upright, erect</p>
+
+<p><b>enjaulado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>enjaular</b>) caged, confined</p>
+
+<p><b>enjuto,&nbsp;-a</b> dry</p>
+
+<p><b>enmudecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> become mute, become silent</p>
+
+<p><b>enojar</b> annoy, trouble, vex, offend; <b>&#126; se</b> be annoyed, become angry</p>
+
+<p><b>enojo</b> <i>m.</i> annoyance, offense; <b>si no lo hab&eacute;is por &#126; </b> if it be not offensive to you</p>
+
+<p><b>enredijo</b> <i>m.</i> tangle</p>
+
+<p><b>enredo</b> <i>m.</i> tangle, entanglement; mischief</p>
+
+<p><b>ensangrentado,&nbsp;-a</b> blood-stained</p>
+
+<p><b>ensangrentar</b> <i>irreg.</i> stain with blood</p>
+
+<p><b>ensartar</b> string together, link together; <b>&#126; mil gracias</b> be full of jokes</p>
+
+<p><b>ensayo</b> <i>m.</i> assay, trial, experiment</p>
+
+<p><b>ense&ntilde;ar</b> show</p>
+
+<p><b>ensimismado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>ensimismarse</b>) absorbed in thought</p>
+
+<p><b>entendedor</b> <i>m.</i>: <b>a buen &#126; </b> (<i>the full form of the proverb is</i> <b>a buen entendedor, breve hablador</b>, <i>or</i> <b>al buen entendedor, pocas palabras</b>) a word to the wise is sufficient</p>
+
+<p><b>entender</b> <i>irreg.</i> understand</p>
+
+<p><b>entendido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>entender</b>) understood</p>
+
+<p><b>enterar</b> inform; <b>&#126; se de</b> find out about</p>
+
+<p><b>enternecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> move to pity, soften, affect; <b>&#126; se</b> soften, be affected</p>
+
+<p><b>entero,&nbsp;-a</b> complete, entire</p>
+
+<p><b>entonces</b> then</p>
+
+<p><b>entrada</b> <i>f.</i> entrance; admission, admittance</p>
+
+<p><b>entrambos,&nbsp;-as</b> both</p>
+
+<p><b>entra&ntilde;as</b> <i>f.</i> inmost feelings</p>
+
+<p><b>entrar</b> enter, bring in; <b>entra</b> (<i>in stage directions</i>) exit</p>
+
+<p><b>entre</b> between, in the midst of, in, among</p>
+
+<p><b>entreabierto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>entreabrir</b>) half opened</p>
+
+<p><b>entregado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>entregar</b>) surrendered</p>
+
+<p><b>entregar</b> deliver, hand over, surrender, entrust</p>
+
+<p><b>entretanto</b> in the meantime</p>
+
+<p><b>entretenido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>entretener</b>) amusing, interesting</p>
+
+<p><b>envainar</b> sheathe</p>
+
+<p><b>enviado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>enviar</b>) sent, envoy</p>
+
+<p><b>enviar</b> send</p>
+
+<p><b>envidia</b> <i>f.</i> envy</p>
+
+<p><b>envilecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> vilify, debase, degrade</p>
+
+<p><b>epitafio</b> <i>m.</i> epitaph</p>
+
+<p><b>&eacute;poca</b> <i>f.</i> epoch, period</p>
+
+<p><b>equivocaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> mistake, misunderstanding</p>
+
+<p><b>equivocarse</b> be mistaken</p>
+
+<p><b>erguido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>erguir</b>) erect, straight</p>
+
+<p><b>errar</b> <i>irreg.</i> err, wander, be mistaken</p>
+
+<p><b>error</b> <i>m.</i> error, mistake</p>
+
+<p><b>escalera</b> <i>f.</i> staircase</p>
+
+<p><b>escal&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> step</p>
+
+<p><b>esc&aacute;ndalo</b> <i>m.</i> scandal; astonishment</p>
+
+<p><b>escapar(se)</b> escape</p>
+
+<p><b>escaso,&nbsp;-a</b> scanty, trifling</p>
+
+<p><b>escena</b> <i>f.</i> scene, stage</p>
+
+<p><b>esclavo</b> <i>m.</i> slave</p>
+
+<p><b>escoger</b> choose</p>
+
+<p><b>escolta</b> <i>f.</i> escort</p>
+
+<p><b>escoltar</b> escort</p>
+
+<p><b>esconder</b> hide</p>
+
+<p><b>escondido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>esconder</b>) hidden</p>
+
+<p><b>Escorial</b> <i>m.</i> the Escorial, <i>see note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>escorpi&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> scorpion</p>
+
+<p><b>escriba</b> <i>m.</i> scribe</p>
+
+<p><b>escribir</b> <i>irreg.</i> write</p>
+
+<p><b>escrito,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>escribir</b>) written</p>
+
+<p><b>escrito</b> <i>m.</i> writing, manuscript; paper</p>
+
+<p><b>escuchar</b> listen, hearken to, hear</p>
+
+<p><b>escudri&ntilde;ar</b> scrutinize, examine</p>
+
+<p><b>escupir</b> spit</p>
+
+<p><b>ese,&nbsp;-a</b>, <i>pl.</i> <b>esos,&nbsp;-as</b>, that (near person addressed); those</p>
+
+<p><b>&eacute;se,&nbsp;-a</b>, <i>pl.</i> <b>&eacute;sos,&nbsp;-as</b>, that one, those</p>
+
+<p><b>esencia</b> <i>f.</i> essence</p>
+
+<p><b>esforzarse</b> <i>irreg.</i> make efforts, struggle</p>
+
+<p><b>esfuerzo</b> <i>m.</i> effort</p>
+
+<p><b>eso</b> that; <b>&#126; es</b> that is right; <b>por &#126; </b> for that reason, that is why</p>
+
+<p><b>espacio</b> <i>m.</i> space, place; interval of time; <b>en breve &#126; </b> quickly</p>
+
+<p><b>espada</b> <i>f.</i> sword</p>
+
+<p><b>espalda</b> <i>f.</i> back, shoulders; <b>a &#126; s de</b> back of, behind; <b>a la &#126; </b> at the back, in the rear, up stage; <b>llevar a la &#126; </b> carry, wear on one's back</p>
+
+<p><b>espantajo</b> <i>m.</i> scarecrow</p>
+
+<p><b>espantar</b> terrify, frighten</p>
+
+<p><b>espanto</b> <i>m.</i> consternation, fright, wonder</p>
+
+<p><b>Espa&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> Spain</p>
+
+<p><b>espa&ntilde;ol,&nbsp;-a</b> Spanish</p>
+
+<p><b>espa&ntilde;ol</b> <i>m.</i> Spaniard</p>
+
+<p><b>espectro</b> <i>m.</i> specter, shade</p>
+
+<p><b>espejo</b> <i>m.</i> mirror</p>
+
+<p><b>esperanza</b> <i>f.</i> hope</p>
+
+<p><b>esperar</b> await, expect, hope</p>
+
+<p><b>esp&iacute;a</b> <i>m. f.</i> spy</p>
+
+<p><b>esp&iacute;ritu</b> <i>m.</i> spirit</p>
+
+<p><b>esposa</b> <i>f.</i> wife</p>
+
+<p><b>esposo</b> <i>m.</i> husband</p>
+
+<p><b>espuma</b> <i>f.</i> foam; <b>&#126; s</b> waves, seas</p>
+
+<p><b>esquina</b> <i>f.</i> corner</p>
+
+<p><b>esquivar</b> shun, avoid, evade</p>
+
+<p><b>estado</b> <i>m.</i> state, nation</p>
+
+<p><b>estallar</b> burst</p>
+
+<p><b>estar</b> <i>irreg.</i> be; suit, become; <b>est&aacute; bien</b> all right; <b>&#126; para</b> be about to; <b>no est&aacute;</b> he is not here</p>
+
+<p><b>este,&nbsp;-a</b>, <i>pl.</i> <b>estos,&nbsp;-as</b>, this, these</p>
+
+<p><b>&eacute;ste,&nbsp;-a</b>, <i>pl.</i> <b>&eacute;stos,&nbsp;-as</b>, this one, these; the latter</p>
+
+<p><b>estimar</b> esteem; <b>&#126; en mucho</b> value highly</p>
+
+<p><b>esto</b> this</p>
+
+<p><b>estorbar</b> molest, prevent, interfere with, block</p>
+
+<p><b>estorbo</b> <i>m.</i> obstacle, hindrance</p>
+
+<p><b>estrago</b> <i>m.</i> damage</p>
+
+<p><b>estrambote</b> <i>m.</i> verses added to a sonnet or other metrical combination for the sake of greater emphasis or humor; envoy</p>
+
+<p><b>estrella</b> <i>f.</i> star; destiny; <b>con mala &#126; </b> ill-starred</p>
+
+<p><b>estrellarse</b> be dashed to pieces, be shivered, be shattered</p>
+
+<p><b>estremecerse</b> <i>irreg.</i> shudder</p>
+
+<p><b>estrenarse</b> be presented for the first time (of a drama)</p>
+
+<p><b>estrujar</b> press, crush, crumple</p>
+
+<p><b>estudio</b> <i>m.</i> study</p>
+
+<p><b>estupendo,&nbsp;-a</b> stupendous</p>
+
+<p><b>eternidad</b> <i>f.</i> eternity</p>
+
+<p><b>eterno,&nbsp;-a</b> eternal</p>
+
+<p><b>Europa</b> <i>f.</i> Europe</p>
+
+<p><b>evitar</b> avoid, shun, save</p>
+
+<p><b>exagerado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>exagerar</b>) exaggerated</p>
+
+<p><b>exaltaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> exaltation, passion</p>
+
+<p><b>examinar</b> examine, investigate</p>
+
+<p><b>excelencia</b> <i>f.</i> excellence; Excellency (<i>usual title given to persons high in office or of istinction</i>)</p>
+
+<p><b>excelente</b> excellent</p>
+
+<p><b>excelso,&nbsp;-a</b> high, sublime</p>
+
+<p><b>excusado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>excusar</b>) excused, reserved; <b>calle &#126; </b> unfrequented street</p>
+
+<p><b>excusar</b> excuse, omit</p>
+
+<p><b>execrar</b> execrate, abominate</p>
+
+<p><b>exhortar</b> exhort, admonish</p>
+
+<p><b>exigir</b> demand</p>
+
+<p><b>existencia</b> <i>f.</i> existence</p>
+
+<p><b>existir</b> exist</p>
+
+<p><b>expedito,&nbsp;-a</b> free, open</p>
+
+<p><b>experiencia</b> <i>f.</i> experience</p>
+
+<p><b>expirar</b> expire</p>
+
+<p><b>explicar</b> explain</p>
+
+<p><b>expresar</b> express</p>
+
+<p><b>expresi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> expression</p>
+
+<p><b>exquisito,&nbsp;-a</b> exquisite</p>
+
+<p><b>exterior</b> exterior, outside</p>
+
+<p><b>extinguido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>extinguir</b>) extinguished, extinct</p>
+
+<p><b>extinguir</b> extinguish</p>
+
+<p><b>extranjero,&nbsp;-a</b> foreign, strange</p>
+
+<p><b>extranjero</b> <i>m.</i> foreigner, stranger</p>
+
+<p><b>extra&ntilde;ar</b> marvel at, astonish; <b>&#126; se de</b> marvel at</p>
+
+<p><b>extra&ntilde;eza</b> <i>f.</i> strangeness; surprise, wonderment</p>
+
+<p><b>extra&ntilde;o,&nbsp;-a</b> strange, singular, extravagant, foreign</p>
+
+<p><b>extraordinario,&nbsp;-a</b> extraordinary</p>
+
+<p><b>extrav&iacute;o</b> <i>m.</i> deviation; disorder <b>con &#126; </b> incoherently</p>
+
+<p><b>extremo,&nbsp;-a</b> extreme; <b>en &#126; </b> extremely <b>f&aacute;cil</b> easy</p>
+
+<p><b>fachada</b> <i>f.</i> fa&ccedil;ade</p>
+
+<p><b>falsificar</b> falsify, forge</p>
+
+<p><b>falso,&nbsp;-a</b> false</p>
+
+<p><b>faltar</b> be lacking, fail; <b>lo que de Dios os falta</b> what God has in store for you</p>
+
+<p><b>fama</b> <i>f.</i> fame, reputation</p>
+
+<p><b>familia</b> <i>f.</i>. family</p>
+
+<p><b>famoso,&nbsp;-a</b> famous; great, excellent</p>
+
+<p><b>farol</b> <i>m.</i> lantern</p>
+
+<p><b>farolillo</b> <i>m.</i> (<i>dimin. of</i> <b>farol</b>) little lantern</p>
+
+<p><b>fascinar</b> fascinate</p>
+
+<p><b>fastidio</b> <i>m.</i> annoyance</p>
+
+<p><b>fatal</b> fatal, ominous</p>
+
+<p><b>fausto,&nbsp;-a</b> happy, prosperous</p>
+
+<p><b>favor</b> <i>m.</i> favor</p>
+
+<p><b>favorito</b> <i>m.</i> favorite</p>
+
+<p><b>faz</b> <i>f.</i> face</p>
+
+<p><b>fe</b> <i>f.</i> faith; <b>a &#126; </b> in truth, in good earnest; <b>por mi &#126; de caballero</b> on my sacred honor, on my word as a gentleman</p>
+
+<p><b>febrero</b> <i>m.</i> February</p>
+
+<p><b>felicidad</b> <i>f.</i> happiness</p>
+
+<p><b>Felipe</b> Philip</p>
+
+<p><b>feliz</b> (<i>pl.</i> <b>felices</b>) happy, that brings happiness</p>
+
+<p><b>ferocidad</b> <i>f.</i> ferocity</p>
+
+<p><b>feroz</b> (<i>pl.</i> <b>feroces</b>) ferocious, wild, savage, rebellious</p>
+
+<p><b>festejo</b> <i>m.</i> feast, entertainment</p>
+
+<p><b>fiel</b> faithful, trustworthy</p>
+
+<p><b>fijamente</b> fixedly</p>
+
+<p><b>fijarse en</b> fix eyes <i>or</i> attention on</p>
+
+<p><b>fijo,&nbsp;-a</b> fixed</p>
+
+<p><b>fila</b> <i>f.</i> rank, row, file</p>
+
+<p><b>filosof&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> philosophy</p>
+
+<p><b>fin</b> <i>m. and f.</i> end, conclusion; purpose; <b>al &#126; y al cabo</b> after all is said and done, finally; <b>dar &#126; </b> finish; <b>en &#126; </b> finally, after all, in short; <b>a &#126; de que</b> in order that; <b>por &#126; </b> finally</p>
+
+<p><b>final</b> <i>m.</i> conclusion</p>
+
+<p><b>fineza</b> <i>f.</i> delicacy, favor</p>
+
+<p><b>firma</b> <i>f.</i> signature</p>
+
+<p><b>firmar</b> sign</p>
+
+<p><b>firme</b> firm, steady</p>
+
+<p><b>Flandes</b> <i>m.</i> Flanders</p>
+
+<p><b>flor</b> <i>f.</i> flower</p>
+
+<p><b>fondo</b> <i>m.</i> background (center), bottom, back (of stage)</p>
+
+<p><b>forma</b> <i>f.</i> form</p>
+
+<p><b>formar</b> form</p>
+
+<p><b>fortuna</b> <i>f.</i> fortune, chance; <b>por &#126; </b> perchance</p>
+
+<p><b>forzado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>forzar</b>) forced</p>
+
+<p><b>fr&aacute;gil</b> fragile, frail, weak</p>
+
+<p><b>Francisco</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>frase</b> <i>f.</i> phrase, sentence</p>
+
+<p><b>frenes&iacute;</b> <i>m.</i> frenzy</p>
+
+<p><b>frente</b> <i>f.</i> forehead, brow; <b>en &#126; de</b> in front of, opposite; <b>al &#126; de</b> in front of, at the beginning of; <b>&#126; a &#126; </b> face to face</p>
+
+<p><b>frescura</b> <i>f.</i> coolness, tranquillity</p>
+
+<p><b>frialdad</b> <i>f.</i> coldness; <b>con &#126; </b> coldly</p>
+
+<p><b>fr&iacute;o,&nbsp;-a</b> cold</p>
+
+<p><b>friolera</b> <i>f.</i> trifle</p>
+
+<p><b>frotar</b> rub</p>
+
+<p><b>fruto</b> <i>m.</i> fruit</p>
+
+<p><b>fuego</b> <i>m.</i> fire</p>
+
+<p><b>Fuenterrab&iacute;a</b> <i>see note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>fuera</b> outside; <b>&#126; de</b> outside of, beyond, away from, besides; <b>&#126; de s&iacute;</b> beside himself</p>
+
+<p><b>fuerte</b> strong, powerful; bitter</p>
+
+<p><b>fuerza</b> <i>f.</i> force, strength, violence; <b>es &#126; </b> it is necessary</p>
+
+<p><b>fuga</b> <i>f.</i> flight, escape</p>
+
+<p><b>fugaz</b> (<i>pl.</i> <b>fugaces</b>) fleeting</p>
+
+<p><b>funesto,&nbsp;-a</b> sinister, fatal</p>
+
+<p><b>furibundo,&nbsp;-a</b> furious</p>
+
+<p><b>furioso,&nbsp;-a</b> furious</p>
+
+<p><b>furor</b> <i>m.</i> fury</p>
+
+<p><b>futuro,&nbsp;-a</b> future <b>gala</b> <i>f.</i> parade, present, honor</p>
+
+<p><b>gal&aacute;n</b> gallant</p>
+
+<p><b>gal&aacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> gallant</p>
+
+<p><b>galer&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> gallery</p>
+
+<p><b>gana</b> <i>f.</i> desire; <b>de mala &#126; </b> unwillingly, reluctantly</p>
+
+<p><b>ganado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>ganar</b>) won; winner</p>
+
+<p><b>ganar</b> gain, conquer, win</p>
+
+<p><b>ganso</b> <i>m.</i> goose</p>
+
+<p><b>Gaspar</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>gastar</b> spend, waste; wear, use (habitually); act, behave (e.g. <b>&#126; mal humor</b> be ill-humored)</p>
+
+<p><b>gemido</b> <i>m.</i> groan, moan</p>
+
+<p><b>gemir</b> <i>irreg.</i> groan; suffer</p>
+
+<p><b>general</b> general</p>
+
+<p><b>general</b> <i>m.</i> general</p>
+
+<p><b>generoso,&nbsp;-a</b> generous, noble</p>
+
+<p><b>genio</b> <i>m.</i> genius, character, temper, humor; embodiment</p>
+
+<p><b>gente</b> <i>f.</i> people, men</p>
+
+<p><b>gesto</b> <i>m.</i> face, expression</p>
+
+<p><b>Gir&oacute;n</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>gloria</b> <i>f.</i> glory; <b>ni en la &#126; </b> not even in heaven itself, what could be better?</p>
+
+<p><b>glorioso,&nbsp;-a</b> glorious</p>
+
+<p><b>gobernador,&nbsp;-a</b> governor</p>
+
+<p><b>gobernar</b> <i>irreg.</i> govern, rule</p>
+
+<p><b>gobierno</b> <i>m.</i> government</p>
+
+<p><b>golpe</b> <i>m.</i> blow, wound, shock, thrust</p>
+
+<p><b>gota</b> <i>f.</i> drop</p>
+
+<p><b>gozar en</b>, <b>de</b>, <i>or</i> <b>con</b> rejoice in, enjoy, revel in</p>
+
+<p><b>gozo</b> <i>m.</i> joy, rejoicing, keen pleasure</p>
+
+<p><b>grabar</b> engrave</p>
+
+<p><b>gracia</b> <i>f.</i> grace, wit, joke; favor; <b>&#126; s</b> thanks; <b>&#126; s a Dios</b> thank heaven; <b>por &#126; </b> for a joke; <b>hacer &#126; a</b> please, amuse; <b>tener &#126; </b> be witty, be funny</p>
+
+<p><b>gracioso,&nbsp;-a</b> free, graceful, easy; <b>gracioso porte</b> easy carriage</p>
+
+<p><b>grada</b> <i>f.</i> step, stair; <b>&#126; s perron</b></p>
+
+<p><b>grader&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> steps</p>
+
+<p><b>grajo</b> <i>m.</i> jackdaw</p>
+
+<p><b>gran</b> <i>see</i> <b>grande</b></p>
+
+<p><b>grande</b> great, large</p>
+
+<p><b>grandeza</b> <i>f.</i> greatness, eminence</p>
+
+<p><b>gratitud</b> <i>f.</i> gratitude</p>
+
+<p><b>grey</b> <i>f.</i> flock</p>
+
+<p><b>grillos</b> <i>m. pl.</i> fetters, irons</p>
+
+<p><b>grito</b> <i>m.</i> shout, cry</p>
+
+<p><b>grotesco,&nbsp;-a</b> grotesque</p>
+
+<p><b>grupo</b> <i>m.</i> group</p>
+
+<p><b>guardar</b> guard, protect, keep, watch over; <b>gu&aacute;rdeos Dios</b> farewell; <b>&#126; silencio</b> remain silent</p>
+
+<p><b>guardarropa</b> <i>f.</i> wardrobe, clothes-press</p>
+
+<p><b>guardarrop&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> wardrobe (<i>theatrical</i>)</p>
+
+<p><b>guardia</b> <i>f.</i> guard, policeman; <b>ponerse en &#126; </b> put one's self on one's guard</p>
+
+<p><b>guerra</b> <i>f.</i> war</p>
+
+<p><b>guiar</b> guide, lead</p>
+
+<p><b>gusto</b> <i>m.</i> pleasure; <b>a vuestro &#126; </b> to your liking; <b>de &#126; </b> with pleasure</p>
+
+<p><b>Guzm&aacute;n</b> <i>family name</i>; <b>el de &#126; </b> = <b>el Conde-Duque de Olivares</b> <b>haber</b> <i>irreg.</i> have; <b>&#126; de</b> have to, be to, must; <b>hay, hab&iacute;a,</b> <i>etc.</i> there is, there are, <i>etc.</i>; <b>&#126; menester</b> have need of; <b>hay</b> (<i>etc.</i>) <b>que</b> it is necessary, one must; <b>qu&eacute; ha habido</b> what has happened; <b>no ha mucho</b> not long ago</p>
+
+<p><b>h&aacute;bil</b> capable, clever, cunning</p>
+
+<p><b>habilidad</b> <i>f.</i> ability, cunning</p>
+
+<p><b>habitaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> room, apartment, suite of rooms</p>
+
+<p><b>h&aacute;bito</b> <i>m.</i> habit, custom; dress; insignia, order</p>
+
+<p><b>hablar</b> speak, talk, discuss; <b>qu&eacute; hablar&aacute; consigo mismo</b> what can he be muttering to himself; <b>&#126; para si</b> talk to one's self</p>
+
+<p><b>hacer</b> <i>irreg.</i> do, make, act, cause, have; <b>&#126; se</b> become; <b>se hace tarde</b> it is getting late; <b>hace</b> (<i>in impers. expr. of time</i>) ago; <b>&#126; agua</b> leak; <b>&#126; compa&ntilde;&iacute;a</b> accompany; <b>&#126; la corte a</b> do honor to, pay court to; <b>&#126; cruces</b> cross one's self; <b>&#126; gracia</b> please, amuse; <b>&#126; presente</b> present, state, bring to one's attention; <b>&#126; voto</b> vow; <b>&#126; una salva</b> fire a salute</p>
+
+<p><b>hacia</b> toward; <b>&#126; aqu&iacute;</b> in this direction</p>
+
+<p><b>halag&uuml;e&ntilde;o,&nbsp;-a</b> attractive, alluring, flattering</p>
+
+<p><b>hallar</b> find; <b>&#126; se</b> be (<b>estar</b>)</p>
+
+<p><b>hambre</b> <i>f.</i> hunger</p>
+
+<p><b>harto,&nbsp;-a</b> satiated</p>
+
+<p><b>harto</b> enough</p>
+
+<p><b>hasta</b> as far as, until, towards, even to, even; <b>&#126; que</b> until</p>
+
+<p><b>haza&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> deed</p>
+
+<p><b>hecho</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>hacer</b>)</p>
+
+<p><b>hecho</b> <i>m.</i> deed, fact, action</p>
+
+<p><b>helado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>helar</b>) frozen, chilled</p>
+
+<p><b>heredar</b> inherit</p>
+
+<p><b>heredero</b> <i>m.</i> heir; <b>pr&iacute;ncipe &#126; </b> crown prince</p>
+
+<p><b>herir</b> <i>irreg.</i> wound, strike</p>
+
+<p><b>hermana</b> <i>f.</i> sister; <b>prima &#126; </b> first cousin</p>
+
+<p><b>hermano</b> <i>m.</i> brother</p>
+
+<p><b>hermoso,&nbsp;-a</b> beautiful</p>
+
+<p><b>heroico,&nbsp;-a</b> heroic</p>
+
+<p><b>hero&iacute;smo</b> <i>m.</i> heroism</p>
+
+<p><b>hidalgo</b> <i>m.</i> nobleman</p>
+
+<p><b>hiel</b> <i>f.</i> bitterness, gall</p>
+
+<p><b>hielo</b> <i>m.</i> ice</p>
+
+<p><b>hierba</b> <i>f.</i> grass</p>
+
+<p><b>hierro</b> <i>m.</i> iron, steel; sword</p>
+
+<p><b>hijo</b> <i>m.</i> son, child</p>
+
+<p><b>hipocres&iacute;a</b> hypocrisy, dissimulation</p>
+
+<p><b>hip&oacute;crita</b> <i>m.</i> hypocritical</p>
+
+<p><b>historia</b> <i>f.</i> history, story, fable, tale, yarn; rot!</p>
+
+<p><b>hoja</b> <i>f.</i> leaf; <b>&#126; s</b> leaves of (folding or sliding) door</p>
+
+<p><b>hola</b> hello, ho</p>
+
+<p><b>holgarse de</b> <i>irreg.</i> take pleasure in</p>
+
+<p><b>hombre</b> <i>m.</i> man</p>
+
+<p><b>hombro</b> <i>m.</i> shoulder</p>
+
+<p><b>hondo,&nbsp;-a</b> deep, dark; <b>honda querella</b> bitter complaint</p>
+
+<p><b>honor</b> <i>m.</i> honor</p>
+
+<p><b>honra</b> <i>f.</i> honor</p>
+
+<p><b>honrar</b> honor</p>
+
+<p><b>honroso,&nbsp;-a</b> honorable, creditable</p>
+
+<p><b>hora</b> <i>f.</i> hour, appointed time; <b>es &#126; de que</b> it is time that; <b>a estas &#126; s</b> now, at this moment</p>
+
+<p><b>horca</b> <i>f.</i> gallows</p>
+
+<p><b>horizonte</b> <i>m.</i> horizon</p>
+
+<p><b>horrendo,&nbsp;-a</b> dreadful, hideous</p>
+
+<p><b>horrible</b> horrible</p>
+
+<p><b>horror</b> <i>m.</i> horror; <b>qu&eacute; &#126; </b> how horrible</p>
+
+<p><b>hostilidad</b> <i>f.</i> hostility</p>
+
+<p><b>hoy</b> to-day; <b>&#126; mismo</b> this very day; <b>de &#126; en m&aacute;s</b> from now on, henceforth</p>
+
+<p><b>huirse</b> <i>irreg.</i> flee, escape</p>
+
+<p><b>humanidad</b> <i>f.</i> humanity</p>
+
+<p><b>humano,&nbsp;-a</b> human</p>
+
+<p><b>humedecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> moisten; grow wet, grow moist</p>
+
+<p><b>h&uacute;medo,&nbsp;-a</b> damp, wet</p>
+
+<p><b>humilde</b> humble</p>
+
+<p><b>humillaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> humiliation, abjectness</p>
+
+<p><b>humillado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>humillar</b>) humiliated, humbled</p>
+
+<p><b>humillar</b> humble, crush, degrade</p>
+
+<p><b>humo</b> <i>m.</i> smoke</p>
+
+<p><b>humor</b> <i>m.</i> humor; <b>de mal &#126; </b> ill-humoredly; <b>estar de &#126; </b> be in good humor</p>
+
+<p><b>hundir</b> plunge, crush; <b>&#126; se</b> crumble, collapse <b>idea</b> <i>f.</i> idea</p>
+
+<p><b>ideal</b> ideal</p>
+
+<p><b>&iacute;dem</b> idem, the same</p>
+
+<p><b>ignorar</b> be ignorant of, be in ignorance</p>
+
+<p><b>igual</b> equal, similar, fair</p>
+
+<p><b>ijar</b> <i>m.</i> flank, side</p>
+
+<p><b>iluminado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>iluminar</b>) illuminated</p>
+
+<p><b>iluminar</b> illuminate</p>
+
+<p><b>ilusi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> illusion</p>
+
+<p><b>ilustre</b> illustrious, glorious</p>
+
+<p><b>imagen</b> <i>f.</i> image</p>
+
+<p><b>imaginar</b> imagine</p>
+
+<p><b>imaginario,&nbsp;-a</b> imaginary</p>
+
+<p><b>imb&eacute;cil</b> imbecile, mad</p>
+
+<p><b>imb&eacute;cil</b> <i>m.</i> imbecile, ass</p>
+
+<p><b>imitar</b> imitate</p>
+
+<p><b>impaciencia</b> <i>f.</i> impatience</p>
+
+<p><b>impacientarse</b> grow impatient</p>
+
+<p><b>impaciente</b> impatient</p>
+
+<p><b>impasible</b> impassible, motionless</p>
+
+<p><b>imperial</b> imperial</p>
+
+<p><b>imperio</b> <i>m.</i> empire, command, imperiousness; <b>con &#126; </b> arrogantly, in commanding tone</p>
+
+<p><b>imperioso,&nbsp;-a</b> imperious, commanding</p>
+
+<p><b>imp&iacute;o,&nbsp;-a</b> impious, wicked</p>
+
+<p><b>imponer</b> <i>irreg.</i> impose</p>
+
+<p><b>importar</b> be of importance, matter, concern; <b>importe que importe</b> matter what it may, at any rate</p>
+
+<p><b>importuno,&nbsp;-a</b> unseasonable, annoying</p>
+
+<p><b>imposible</b> impossible</p>
+
+<p><b>impostor</b> <i>m.</i> impostor</p>
+
+<p><b>improviso,&nbsp;-a</b> unexpected, unforeseen; <b>de &#126; </b> suddenly, unexpectedly</p>
+
+<p><b>impuro,&nbsp;-a</b> impure, unfaithful</p>
+
+<p><b>incapaz</b> (<i>pl.</i> <b>-ces</b>) incapable</p>
+
+<p><b>incauto,&nbsp;-a</b> incautious, rash</p>
+
+<p><b>incertidumbre</b> <i>f.</i> uncertainty</p>
+
+<p><b>incisivo,&nbsp;-a</b> incisive</p>
+
+<p><b>inclinaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> inclination, bow</p>
+
+<p><b>inclinarse</b> bow</p>
+
+<p><b>&iacute;nclito,&nbsp;-a</b> renowned, illustrious</p>
+
+<p><b>incorporarse</b> join, mingle with</p>
+
+<p><b>indagar</b> investigate, inquire</p>
+
+<p><b>independiente</b> independent</p>
+
+<p><b>indiferencia</b> <i>f.</i> indifference</p>
+
+<p><b>indignado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>indignar</b>) indignant, angry</p>
+
+<p><b>indispuesto,&nbsp;-a</b> indisposed, unwell</p>
+
+<p><b>in&eacute;dito,&nbsp;-a</b> unpublished</p>
+
+<p><b>In&eacute;s</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>inevitable</b> inevitable</p>
+
+<p><b>infame</b> infamous, abominable</p>
+
+<p><b>infamia</b> <i>f.</i> infamy</p>
+
+<p><b>infante,&nbsp;-a</b> infante, infanta (legitimate child of Spanish royal blood)</p>
+
+<p><b>infeliz</b> unhappy, wretched</p>
+
+<p><b>inferir</b> <i>irreg.</i> infer</p>
+
+<p><b>infernal</b> infernal, hellish</p>
+
+<p><b>infierno</b> <i>m.</i> hell</p>
+
+<p><b>infinito,&nbsp;-a</b> infinite;
+<i>as adv.</i> immeasurably</p>
+
+<p><b>influir</b> <i>irreg.</i> influence, exercise influence</p>
+
+<p><b>infructuoso,&nbsp;-a</b> fruitless, vain</p>
+
+<p><b>infundir</b> imbue with, inspire</p>
+
+<p><b>ingenio</b> <i>m.</i> talent, cleverness, brilliancy</p>
+
+<p><b>iniquidad</b> <i>f.</i> iniquity, wickedness</p>
+
+<p><b>injusto,&nbsp;-a</b> unjust</p>
+
+<p><b>inmediatamente</b> immediately, instantly</p>
+
+<p><b>inmenso,&nbsp;-a</b> immense, unbounded, infinite</p>
+
+<p><b>inm&oacute;vil</b> motionless</p>
+
+<p><b>inocencia</b> <i>f.</i> innocence</p>
+
+<p><b>inocente</b> innocent</p>
+
+<p><b>inquietud</b> <i>f.</i> disquietude; <b>con &#126; </b> restlessly</p>
+
+<p><b>inquirir</b> <i>irreg.</i> inquire into, investigate</p>
+
+<p><b>insistir (en)</b> insist (upon)</p>
+
+<p><b>instant&aacute;neo,&nbsp;-a</b> instantaneous</p>
+
+<p><b>instante</b> <i>m.</i> instant</p>
+
+<p><b>insulso,&nbsp;-a</b> stupid, insipid</p>
+
+<p><b>insultar</b> insult</p>
+
+<p><b>insulto</b> <i>m.</i> insult</p>
+
+<p><b>intacto,&nbsp;-a</b> intact, untouched</p>
+
+<p><b>inteligencia</b> <i>f.</i> intelligence</p>
+
+<p><b>intenci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> intention, meaning</p>
+
+<p><b>intentar</b> try, intend, mean</p>
+
+<p><b>intento</b> <i>m.</i> intent, purpose, design</p>
+
+<p><b>intercalado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>intercalar</b>) interpolated</p>
+
+<p><b>intercalar</b> interpolate, insert</p>
+
+<p><b>interceptar</b> intercept</p>
+
+<p><b>inter&eacute;s</b> <i>m.</i> interest, advantage</p>
+
+<p><b>interior</b> interior, inside</p>
+
+<p><b>interior</b> <i>m.</i> interior</p>
+
+<p><b>interpretar</b> interpret</p>
+
+<p><b>interrumpir</b> interrupt</p>
+
+<p><b>introducir</b> <i>irreg.</i> introduce, lead in</p>
+
+<p><b>inundar</b> inundate, flood</p>
+
+<p><b>in&uacute;til</b> useless; <b>me era &#126; </b> I had no occasion for</p>
+
+<p><b>invenci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> invention, fabrication</p>
+
+<p><b>invocar</b> invoke</p>
+
+<p><b>ir</b> <i>irreg.</i> go; be (<i>with pres. part.</i>); <b>&#126; se</b> go away; <b>vase</b> exit; <b>vamos</b> come, why; <b>vaya</b> come, well, indeed; <b>vaya un</b> what a; <b>&#126; a</b> (<i>infin.</i>) start to; <b>vamos a otra cosa</b> let's talk of something else; <b>van ya muchos a&ntilde;os que</b> it is many years now since; <b>todo va bien</b> everything is all right; <b>muy bien os va con</b> you are making fine progress with; <b>id con Dios</b> God be with you, good-by; <b>va de tahur a tahur</b> it is gambler against gambler; <b>va que se le lleva el aire</b> he goes as if he were walking on air; <b>se nos fu&eacute; de entre las manos</b> slipped from our grasp</p>
+
+<p><b>iron&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> irony</p>
+
+<p><b>ir&oacute;nicamente</b> ironically</p>
+
+<p><b>ir&oacute;nico,&nbsp;-a</b> ironical</p>
+
+<p><b>irresistible</b> irresistible</p>
+
+<p><b>irritar</b> irritate; <b>&#126; se</b> be stirred, be provoked, be aroused</p>
+
+<p><b>isla</b> <i>f.</i> island</p>
+
+<p><b>&iacute;tem</b> also, moreover; <b>con el &#126; </b> with the additional circumstance</p>
+
+<p><b>izquierdo,&nbsp;-a</b> left (<i>opp. of</i> derecho) <b>ja</b> ha</p>
+
+<p><b>jam&aacute;s</b> never, ever</p>
+
+<p><b>jard&iacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> garden</p>
+
+<p><b>jaspeado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>jaspear</b>) spotted, mottled</p>
+
+<p><b>Jesucristo</b> Jesus Christ; good God!</p>
+
+<p><b>Jes&uacute;s</b> Jesus; Lord!</p>
+
+<p><b>jornada</b> <i>f.</i> journey, expedition; occasion; <b>nuestra es la &#126; </b> the day is ours; <b>al fin de la &#126; </b> the day's work done</p>
+
+<p><b>joven</b> young</p>
+
+<p><b>jovial</b> jovial</p>
+
+<p><b>joya</b> <i>f.</i> jewel</p>
+
+<p><b>joyel</b> <i>m.</i> jewel</p>
+
+<p><b>Juan</b> John</p>
+
+<p><b>j&uacute;bilo</b> <i>m.</i> jubilation, joy</p>
+
+<p><b>Jud&aacute;s</b> Judas (Iscariot)</p>
+
+<p><b>jueves</b> <i>m.</i> Thursday; <b>&#126; santo</b> Maundy Thursday</p>
+
+<p><b>jugar</b> <i>irreg.</i> play</p>
+
+<p><b>juglar</b> <i>m.</i> buffoon</p>
+
+<p><b>juguet&oacute;n,&nbsp;-a</b> playful, sportive</p>
+
+<p><b>juicio</b> <i>m.</i> judgment, opinion; good sense, prudence; <b>perder el &#126; </b> lose one's head, go mad</p>
+
+<p><b>junto,&nbsp;-a</b> near, close, beside; <b>&#126; s</b> together, side by side; <b>&#126; a</b> beside, near, at the side of</p>
+
+<p><b>jurar</b> swear</p>
+
+<p><b>juro</b> <i>m.</i> right of perpetual property; <b>&#126; de heredad</b> hereditary and perpetual property</p>
+
+<p><b>justicia</b> <i>f.</i> justice</p>
+
+<p><b>justo,&nbsp;-a</b> just, right, proper</p>
+
+<p><b>juzgar</b> judge, consider <b>la</b> the; her, it; to her, to it</p>
+
+<p><b>labio</b> <i>m.</i> lip</p>
+
+<p><b>labor</b> <i>f.</i> labor, undertaking; <b>&#126; de mujer</b> embroidery, needlework</p>
+
+<p><b>labrador</b> <i>m.</i> laborer, workman</p>
+
+<p><b>lacio,&nbsp;-a</b> faded, flaccid, languid</p>
+
+<p><b>lado</b> <i>m.</i> side</p>
+
+<p><b>La Grana</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>l&aacute;grima</b> <i>f.</i> tear</p>
+
+<p><b>lance</b> <i>m.</i> incident, situation, affair, quarrel</p>
+
+<p><b>lanzar</b> hurl; <b>&#126; se</b> rush, dart</p>
+
+<p><b>lanz&oacute;n</b> <i>m. (augm. of</i> <b>lanza</b>) great lance</p>
+
+<p><b>largo,&nbsp;-a</b> long; <b>a paso &#126; </b> quickly, hurriedly</p>
+
+<p><b>largueza</b> <i>f.</i> largess, generosity</p>
+
+<p><b>l&aacute;stima</b> <i>f.</i> pity; <b>&#126; que</b> what a pity that; <b>es &#126; </b> it is a pity</p>
+
+<p><b>lastimarse</b> grieve, complain</p>
+
+<p><b>lateral</b> lateral</p>
+
+<p><b>latido</b> <i>m.</i> beat, beating (of heart)</p>
+
+<p><b>laurel</b> <i>m.</i> laurel</p>
+
+<p><b>lazo</b> <i>m.</i> bond</p>
+
+<p><b>le</b> him, it; to him, to her, to it</p>
+
+<p><b>leal</b> loyal, true</p>
+
+<p><b>lealtad</b> <i>f.</i> loyalty</p>
+
+<p><b>lector</b> <i>m.</i> reader</p>
+
+<p><b>lectura</b> <i>f.</i> reading</p>
+
+<p><b>leer</b> read</p>
+
+<p><b>lejano,&nbsp;-a</b> distant</p>
+
+<p><b>lengua</b> <i>f.</i> tongue</p>
+
+<p><b>lentamente</b> slowly</p>
+
+<p><b>lentitud</b> <i>f.</i> slowness, deliberation</p>
+
+<p><b>Le&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> city in northwestern part of Spain</p>
+
+<p><b>letra</b> <i>f.</i> letter</p>
+
+<p><b>letrilla</b> <i>f.</i> rondelet; usually humorous or satirical. It is divided into strophes, at the end of each of which the general thought of the composition is briefly repeated after the manner of a refrain</p>
+
+<p><b>levantado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>levantar</b>) raised</p>
+
+<p><b>levantar</b> raise; <b>&#126; se</b> rise</p>
+
+<p><b>leve</b> slight</p>
+
+<p><b>ley</b> <i>f.</i> law; <b>de &#126; </b> by law, by right; <b>sin dios y sin &#126; </b> godless and lawless</p>
+
+<p><b>librar</b> free</p>
+
+<p><b>libre</b> free, unoccupied</p>
+
+<p><b>libro</b> <i>m.</i> book</p>
+
+<p><b>lid</b> <i>f.</i> contest, fight</p>
+
+<p><b>lidiar</b> fight</p>
+
+<p><b>ligero,&nbsp;-a</b> light, hasty, thoughtless</p>
+
+<p><b>limpio,&nbsp;-a</b> clean, neat; <b>sacar en &#126; </b> find out definitely, come to a conclusion</p>
+
+<p><b>l&iacute;nea</b> <i>f.</i> line</p>
+
+<p><b>linterna</b> <i>f.</i> lantern</p>
+
+<p><b>Lisboa</b> <i>f.</i> Lisbon</p>
+
+<p><b>liso,&nbsp;-a</b> smooth</p>
+
+<p><b>lisonja</b> <i>f.</i> flattery, compliment</p>
+
+<p><b>lisonjero,&nbsp;-a</b> flattering, complimentary, agreeable</p>
+
+<p><b>litera</b> <i>f.</i> litter, stretcher</p>
+
+<p><b>liviano,&nbsp;-a</b> light, fickle, frivolous</p>
+
+<p><b>lo</b> it, him; the</p>
+
+<p><b>loco,&nbsp;-a</b> mad, crazy</p>
+
+<p><b>lograr</b> obtain, succeed in, attain</p>
+
+<p><b>Lucifer</b> Lucifer</p>
+
+<p><b>lucha</b> <i>f.</i> struggle</p>
+
+<p><b>luchar</b> struggle, fight, contend</p>
+
+<p><b>luego</b> soon, then, presently, at once; <b>&#126; que</b> as soon as, when; <b>hasta &#126; </b> good-by (implies only a short separation)</p>
+
+<p><b>l&uacute;gubre</b> sad, mournful, gloomy</p>
+
+<p><b>luna</b> <i>f.</i> moon</p>
+
+<p><b>luto</b> <i>m.</i> mourning</p>
+
+<p><b>luz</b> <i>f.</i> light; <b>luces</b> knowledge, enlightenment <b>llamar</b> call, summon; <b>&#126; se</b> be called, named</p>
+
+<p><b>llanamente</b> frankly</p>
+
+<p><b>llano,&nbsp;-a</b> clear, evident</p>
+
+<p><b>llanto</b> <i>m.</i> weeping, tears</p>
+
+<p><b>llave</b> <i>f.</i> key</p>
+
+<p><b>llegar</b> arrive, approach, reach; <b>&#126; se</b> approach; <b>&#126; a</b> (<i>infin.</i>) come to, succeed in</p>
+
+<p><b>lleno,&nbsp;-a</b> full</p>
+
+<p><b>llevar</b> carry, bear, wear; <b>&#126; se</b> take, carry off; <b>&#126; un golpe</b> receive a blow; <b>lleve tu palabra el diablo</b> to the devil with what you've got to say</p>
+
+<p><b>llorar</b> weep, lament <b>madre</b> <i>f.</i> mother</p>
+
+<p><b>Madrid</b> <i>m.</i> Madrid</p>
+
+<p><b>maestro</b> <i>m.</i> teacher, tutor</p>
+
+<p><b>mag&iacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> fancy, imagination</p>
+
+<p><b>majestad</b> <i>f.</i> majesty</p>
+
+<p><b>mal</b> badly, ill; <b>&#126; seguro,&nbsp;-a</b> unsafe, insecure</p>
+
+<p><b>mal</b> <i>m.</i> evil, harm, ill; <b>por mi &#126; </b> to my injury, to my misfortune, to my sorrow</p>
+
+<p><b>maldad</b> <i>f.</i> wickedness</p>
+
+<p><b>maldecir</b> <i>irreg.</i> curse</p>
+
+<p><b>maldito,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>maldecir</b>) cursed, accursed</p>
+
+<p><b>maliciosamente</b> maliciously, mischievously</p>
+
+<p><b>malicioso,&nbsp;-a</b> malicious, mischievous, sly</p>
+
+<p><b>mal(o),&nbsp;-a</b> bad, poor, ill, wicked</p>
+
+<p><b>malvado,&nbsp;-a</b> wicked, unscrupulous</p>
+
+<p><b>malla</b> <i>f.</i> coat of mail</p>
+
+<p><b>manceb&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> brothel</p>
+
+<p><b>mandar</b> command, order</p>
+
+<p><b>mandato</b> <i>m.</i> order, command</p>
+
+<p><b>mand&iacute;bula</b> <i>f.</i> jaw; <b>re&iacute;rse a &#126; s batientes</b> laugh loud and long</p>
+
+<p><b>mando</b> <i>m.</i> command, bidding</p>
+
+<p><b>manera</b> <i>f.</i> manner</p>
+
+<p><b>manifestar</b> <i>irreg.</i> manifest</p>
+
+<p><b>maniobra</b> <i>f.</i> maneuver</p>
+
+<p><b>mano</b> <i>f.</i> hand</p>
+
+<p><b>mansi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> mansion</p>
+
+<p><b>manso,&nbsp;-a</b> tame, meek, placid</p>
+
+<p><b>mantener</b> <i>irreg.</i> maintain, keep; <b>&#126; se</b> continue</p>
+
+<p><b>manto</b> <i>m.</i> mantle, cloak</p>
+
+<p><b>Mantua</b> <i>f.</i> Mantua</p>
+
+<p><b>ma&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> skill, cunning</p>
+
+<p><b>ma&ntilde;ana</b> to-morrow</p>
+
+<p><b>ma&ntilde;ana</b> <i>f.</i> morning; <b>&#126; ser&aacute; otro d&iacute;a</b> to-morrow things will be different</p>
+
+<p><b>maquinaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> machination</p>
+
+<p><b>maquinalmente</b> mechanically</p>
+
+<p><b>mar</b> <i>m.</i> sea;
+<i>pl.</i> seas, waters</p>
+
+<p><b>marcado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>marcar</b>) marked</p>
+
+<p><b>marcha</b> <i>f.</i> march, departure; <b>en &#126; </b> march</p>
+
+<p><b>marchar</b> march; <b>&#126; se</b> go away</p>
+
+<p><b>Margarita</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>marido</b> <i>m.</i> husband</p>
+
+<p><b>marqu&eacute;s</b> <i>m.</i> marquis</p>
+
+<p><b>Marte</b> Mars, god of war</p>
+
+<p><b>m&aacute;rtir</b> <i>m. and f.</i> martyr</p>
+
+<p><b>martirio</b> <i>m.</i> martyrdom</p>
+
+<p><b>mas</b> but</p>
+
+<p><b>m&aacute;s</b> more, most, further; of higher rank; <b>&#126; bien</b> rather; <b>a &#126; </b> further, besides; <b>de hoy en &#126; </b> from now on, henceforth; <b>mientras &#126;... &#126; </b> the more... the more; <b>por &#126; que</b> however much</p>
+
+<p><b>matador</b> <i>m. and adj.</i> killer, murderer; murderously inclined</p>
+
+<p><b>matar</b> kill; put out, extinguish</p>
+
+<p><b>materno,&nbsp;-a</b> maternal</p>
+
+<p><b>matrimonio</b> <i>m.</i> matrimony, marriage</p>
+
+<p><b>mayor</b> (<i>comp. of</i> <b>grande</b>) greater, greatest</p>
+
+<p><b>maza</b> <i>f.</i> object fastened to a person's clothing in order to make sport of him; something noisy tied to dog's tail</p>
+
+<p><b>me</b> me, to me</p>
+
+<p><b>Medina</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>medio,&nbsp;-a</b> half, middle</p>
+
+<p><b>medio</b> <i>m.</i> middle, means, resort; <b>en &#126; de</b> in the middle of</p>
+
+<p><b>meditar</b> meditate</p>
+
+<p><b>mejilla</b> <i>f.</i> cheek</p>
+
+<p><b>mejor</b> (<i>comp. of</i> bueno) better, best; all the better; fine! <b>&#126; que &#126; </b> better than ever! great!</p>
+
+<p><b>mejoreo</b> <i>m.</i> advantage; constant use of the word <b>mejor</b></p>
+
+<p><b>mejor&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> betterment, advantage; improvement, superiority</p>
+
+<p><b>memoria</b> <i>f.</i> memory</p>
+
+<p><b>memorial</b> <i>m.</i> petition</p>
+
+<p><b>Menda&ntilde;a</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>mendigar</b> beg</p>
+
+<p><b>menester</b> necessary</p>
+
+<p><b>mengua</b> <i>f.</i> diminution, wane; disgrace, shame</p>
+
+<p><b>menina</b> <i>f.</i> little girl-in-waiting</p>
+
+<p><b>menor</b> (<i>comp. of</i> <b>peque&ntilde;o</b>) smaller, less, least</p>
+
+<p><b>menos</b> (<i>comp. of</i> <b>poco</b>) less, least; of lower rank; <b>por &#126; </b> at least; <b>al &#126; </b> at least; <b>lo &#126; </b> at least; <b>no es para &#126; la cosa</b> the situation well warrants it</p>
+
+<p><b>menos</b> except</p>
+
+<p><b>mental</b> mental</p>
+
+<p><b>mente</b> <i>f.</i> mind, understanding, intelligence</p>
+
+<p><b>mentir</b> <i>irreg.</i> lie, misrepresent, attribute falsely</p>
+
+<p><b>mentira</b> <i>f.</i> lie, untruth; lies</p>
+
+<p><b>meollo</b> <i>m.</i> brain, marrow; understanding; <b>tener seco el &#126; </b> have lost one's wits, have gone crazy</p>
+
+<p><b>merced</b> <i>f.</i> favor, grace</p>
+
+<p><b>merecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> deserve; receive a favor at the hands of</p>
+
+<p><b>merienda</b> <i>f.</i> lunch; food; <b>siempre las memorias son &#126; del olvido</b> memories were ever food for
+forgetfulness</p>
+
+<p><b>mes</b> <i>m.</i> month</p>
+
+<p><b>mesa</b> <i>f.</i> table, desk</p>
+
+<p><b>meseta</b> <i>f.</i> landing (of stairs)</p>
+
+<p><b>metralla</b> <i>f.</i> grape-shot</p>
+
+<p><b>mezquino,&nbsp;-a</b> wretched</p>
+
+<p><b>mi</b> my</p>
+
+<p><b>m&iacute;</b> me</p>
+
+<p><b>miedo</b> <i>m.</i> fear; <b>tener &#126; </b> be afraid</p>
+
+<p><b>mientras</b> while; during; <b>&#126; que</b> while; <b>&#126; m&aacute;s (menos)... m&aacute;s (menos)</b> the more (less)... the more (less)</p>
+
+<p><b>mil</b> thousand, a thousand</p>
+
+<p><b>militar</b> military, martial</p>
+
+<p><b>mill&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> million, a million</p>
+
+<p><b>mina</b> <i>f.</i> mine</p>
+
+<p><b>ministro</b> <i>m.</i> minister; <b>&#126; de Estado</b> Secretary of State</p>
+
+<p><b>minuto</b> <i>m.</i> minute</p>
+
+<p><b>m&iacute;o,&nbsp;-a</b> my; <b>el m&iacute;o, la m&iacute;a,</b> mine</p>
+
+<p><b>mirada</b> <i>f.</i> glance, gaze, look</p>
+
+<p><b>mirar</b> look at, regard, gaze upon, see; <b>mira que</b> consider that, remember that</p>
+
+<p><b>misa</b> <i>f.</i> mass</p>
+
+<p><b>misericordia</b> <i>f.</i> mercy</p>
+
+<p><b>m&iacute;sero,&nbsp;-a</b> miserable, wretched; <b>&#126; de</b> alas for</p>
+
+<p><b>mism&iacute;simo,&nbsp;-a</b> selfsame; <b>el &#126; diablo</b> the very devil himself</p>
+
+<p><b>mismo,&nbsp;-a</b> self, same, very</p>
+
+<p><b>misterio</b> <i>m.</i> mystery, mysteriousness, secrecy</p>
+
+<p><b>mitad</b> <i>f.</i> half; middle, midst</p>
+
+<p><b>modelo</b> <i>m.</i> model</p>
+
+<p><b>modo</b> <i>m.</i> way, manner; <b>de cualquier &#126; </b> in any way possible; <b>en cierto &#126; </b> in a certain sense; <b>de &#126; que</b> so that, in such a way that; <b>con discretos &#126; s</b> cleverly</p>
+
+<p><b>mofa</b> <i>f.</i> mockery, ridicule</p>
+
+<p><b>momento</b> <i>m.</i> moment, instant; <b>al &#126; </b> instantly, at once</p>
+
+<p><b>monarca</b> <i>m.</i> monarch</p>
+
+<p><b>monta</b> <i>f.</i> importance, moment</p>
+
+<p><b>monte</b> <i>m.</i> mountain</p>
+
+<p><b>mont&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> heap; <b>a &#126; es</b> in great abundance</p>
+
+<p><b>monumento</b> <i>m.</i> monument</p>
+
+<p><b>morada</b> <i>f.</i> abode, dwelling</p>
+
+<p><b>morar</b> live, dwell</p>
+
+<p><b>mordaza</b> <i>f.</i> gag</p>
+
+<p><b>moribundo,&nbsp;-a</b> moribund, at point of death</p>
+
+<p><b>morir</b> <i>irreg.</i> die; <b>&#126; se</b> die</p>
+
+<p><b>mortal</b> mortal; near death</p>
+
+<p><b>mostrar</b> <i>irreg.</i> show</p>
+
+<p><b>movimiento</b> <i>m.</i> movement, motion</p>
+
+<p><b>mucho,&nbsp;-a</b> much;
+<i>pl.</i> many</p>
+
+<p><b>mucho</b> much, very, greatly</p>
+
+<p><b>mudar</b> change; <b>&#126; de</b> change one's</p>
+
+<p><b>mudo,&nbsp;-a</b> mute, silent</p>
+
+<p><b>mueble</b> <i>m.</i> piece of furniture</p>
+
+<p><b>muerte</b> <i>f.</i> death; <b>a &#126; o a vida</b> life or death! a forlorn hope</p>
+
+<p><b>muerto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>morir</b> <i>or</i> <b>matar</b>) dead, killed; exhausted</p>
+
+<p><b>muestra</b> <i>f.</i> sample; sign, indication</p>
+
+<p><b>mujer</b> <i>f.</i> woman</p>
+
+<p><b>mundo</b> <i>m.</i> world</p>
+
+<p><b>muralla</b> <i>f.</i> wall (of town)</p>
+
+<p><b>musa</b> <i>f.</i> muse, inspiration</p>
+
+<p><b>mustio,&nbsp;-a</b> sad; languid</p>
+
+<p><b>muy</b> very, very much <b>nacer</b> <i>irreg.</i> be born</p>
+
+<p><b>naci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> nation</p>
+
+<p><b>nada</b> nothing, anything; enough</p>
+
+<p><b>nadie</b> no one, nobody, anybody, somebody</p>
+
+<p><b>nariz</b> <i>f.</i> nose</p>
+
+<p><b>narizado,&nbsp;-a</b> big-nosed</p>
+
+<p><b>narraci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> narration, narrative, account</p>
+
+<p><b>Nas&oacute;n</b> Publius Ovidius Naso, Latin poet, born 48 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span>, died 18 <span class="smcap">a.d.</span></p>
+
+<p><b>natural</b> natural</p>
+
+<p><b>naturalidad</b> <i>f.</i> naturalness</p>
+
+<p><b>nav&iacute;o</b> <i>m.</i> ship</p>
+
+<p><b>necesario,&nbsp;-a</b> necessary</p>
+
+<p><b>necesitar</b> need</p>
+
+<p><b>necio,&nbsp;-a</b> foolish, ignorant, stupid</p>
+
+<p><b>necio</b> <i>m.</i> fool</p>
+
+<p><b>nefando,&nbsp;-a</b> abominable</p>
+
+<p><b>negar</b> <i>irreg.</i> deny</p>
+
+<p><b>negocio</b> <i>m.</i> business, affair, occupation</p>
+
+<p><b>negro,&nbsp;-a</b> black, dark, gloomy, wretched; <b>negro af&aacute;n</b> dire anxiety</p>
+
+<p><b>nema</b> <i>f.</i> seal</p>
+
+<p><b>nequ&aacute;quam</b> by no means, not a bit of it</p>
+
+<p><b>ni</b> nor, neither, not even; <b>&#126; aun</b> not even</p>
+
+<p><b>nicho</b> <i>m.</i> niche</p>
+
+<p><b>nido</b> <i>m.</i> nest; berth</p>
+
+<p><b>nieta</b> <i>f.</i> granddaughter</p>
+
+<p><b>nieto</b> <i>m.</i> grandson</p>
+
+<p><b>ni&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> child, girl</p>
+
+<p><b>ni&ntilde;o</b> <i>m.</i> child, boy</p>
+
+<p><b>nivel</b> <i>m.</i> level</p>
+
+<p><b>no</b> no, not</p>
+
+<p><b>noble</b> noble, illustrious</p>
+
+<p><b>noche</b> <i>f.</i> night; <b>de &#126; </b> at night; <b>esta &#126; </b> to-night; <b>buenas &#126; s</b> good night; <b>&#126; de truenos</b> stormy night, black night</p>
+
+<p><b>nombrar</b> name, appoint</p>
+
+<p><b>nombre</b> <i>m.</i> name, fame, reputation; <b>en su &#126; </b> for him; <b>juro a mi &#126; </b> upon my honor</p>
+
+<p><b>nos</b> us, to us</p>
+
+<p><b>nosotros,&nbsp;-as</b> we, us</p>
+
+<p><b>notar</b> note</p>
+
+<p><b>noto</b> <i>m.</i> south wind</p>
+
+<p><b>notorio,&nbsp;-a</b> notorious; <b>p&uacute;blico y &#126; </b> <i>see</i> <b>p&uacute;blico</b></p>
+
+<p><b>nube</b> <i>f.</i> cloud; <b>&#126; s de arrebol</b> brilliant sky</p>
+
+<p><b>nuestro,&nbsp;-a</b> our, ours; <b>el nuestro, la nuestra,</b> our, ours</p>
+
+<p><b>nuevo,&nbsp;-a</b> new, fresh; <b>qu&eacute; hay de &#126; </b> what is the news; <b>de &#126; </b> again, anew</p>
+
+<p><b>numen</b> <i>m.</i> divinity, muse; inspiration</p>
+
+<p><b>nunca</b> never</p>
+
+<p><b>nuncio</b> <i>m.</i> messenger, harbinger</p>
+
+<p><b>nupcial</b> nuptial <b>o</b> or; <b>&#126;... &#126; </b> either... or</p>
+
+<p><b>obedecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> obey</p>
+
+<p><b>obediencia</b> <i>f.</i> obedience</p>
+
+<p><b>obediente</b> obedient</p>
+
+<p><b>obligaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> obligation</p>
+
+<p><b>obligar</b> oblige, force</p>
+
+<p><b>obra</b> <i>f.</i> act;
+<i>pl.</i> behavior, actions</p>
+
+<p><b>obrar</b> operate, act</p>
+
+<p><b>observaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> observation, remark</p>
+
+<p><b>observar</b> observe</p>
+
+<p><b>obtener</b> <i>irreg.</i> obtain</p>
+
+<p><b>Oca&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> <i>see note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>ocasi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> occasion; <b>a &#126; dichosa</b> at just the right moment</p>
+
+<p><b>ocioso,&nbsp;-a</b> idle</p>
+
+<p><b>ocultar</b> hide</p>
+
+<p><b>oculto,&nbsp;-a</b> hidden</p>
+
+<p><b>ocupar</b> occupy; <b>&#126; se de</b> occupy one's self in, concern one's self about</p>
+
+<p><b>ocurrencia</b> <i>f.</i> occurrence; witty sally, idea</p>
+
+<p><b>ocurrir</b> occur</p>
+
+<p><b>ocho</b> eight</p>
+
+<p><b>odiar</b> hate</p>
+
+<p><b>odio</b> <i>m.</i> hatred;
+<i>pl.</i> hatred</p>
+
+<p><b>oficio</b> <i>m.</i> business, office, occupation</p>
+
+<p><b>ofrecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> offer, volunteer</p>
+
+<p><b>oh</b> oh</p>
+
+<p><b>o&iacute;do,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>o&iacute;r</b>) heard</p>
+
+<p><b>o&iacute;do</b> <i>m.</i> hearing, ear</p>
+
+<p><b>o&iacute;r</b> <i>irreg.</i> hear, listen</p>
+
+<p><b>ojo</b> <i>m.</i> eye</p>
+
+<p><b>ola</b> <i>f.</i> wave</p>
+
+<p><b>Olivares</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>olvidado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>olvidar</b>) forgotten; forgetful</p>
+
+<p><b>olvidar</b> forget; <b>&#126; se de</b> forget</p>
+
+<p><b>olvido</b> <i>m.</i> forgetfulness; oblivion</p>
+
+<p><b>opini&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> opinion</p>
+
+<p><b>oponer(se)</b> <i>irreg.</i> oppose</p>
+
+<p><b>opuesto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>oponer</b>) opposite</p>
+
+<p><b>oraci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> speech; sentence; prayer</p>
+
+<p><b>orar</b> pray</p>
+
+<p><b>&oacute;rden</b> <i>f.</i> order, command, direction</p>
+
+<p><b>&oacute;rgano</b> <i>m.</i> organ</p>
+
+<p><b>orgullo</b> <i>m.</i> pride</p>
+
+<p><b>origen</b> <i>m.</i> origin</p>
+
+<p><b>orilla</b> <i>f.</i> shore; <b>morir ahogado en la &#126; </b> fail with success within one's grasp</p>
+
+<p><b>Ormuz</b> <i>m.</i> Ormuz, <i>cf. note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>oro</b> <i>m.</i> gold</p>
+
+<p><b>os</b> you, to you</p>
+
+<p><b>osado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>osar</b>) daring, presumptuous</p>
+
+<p><b>osar</b> dare</p>
+
+<p><b>oscuridad</b> <i>f.</i> obscurity, darkness</p>
+
+<p><b>oscuro,&nbsp;-a</b> obscure, dark; <b>a oscuras</b> in the dark</p>
+
+<p><b>Osorio</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>ostentoso,&nbsp;-a</b> ostentatious</p>
+
+<p><b>Osuna</b> Osuna, <i>cf. Hist. Introd.</i></p>
+
+<p><b>otro,&nbsp;-a</b> other, another</p>
+
+<p><b>Ovidio</b> <i>cf.</i> Nas&oacute;n <b>Pablo</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>p&aacute;bulo</b> <i>m.</i> food</p>
+
+<p><b>padecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> suffer</p>
+
+<p><b>padecimiento</b> <i>m.</i> suffering</p>
+
+<p><b>padre</b> <i>m.</i> father</p>
+
+<p><b>padr&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> pattern, model; column, post with inscription; <b>&#126; de infamia</b> mark of infamy</p>
+
+<p><b>paga</b> <i>f.</i> pay, reward</p>
+
+<p><b>pagar</b> pay, pay for</p>
+
+<p><b>pago</b> <i>m.</i> pay, payment; fee</p>
+
+<p><b>paje</b> <i>m.</i> page</p>
+
+<p><b>pajuela</b> <i>m.</i> sulphur match; piece of wicking dipped in sulphur</p>
+
+<p><b>palabra</b> <i>f.</i> word</p>
+
+<p><b>palaciego,&nbsp;-a</b> of the palace</p>
+
+<p><b>palacio</b> <i>m.</i> palace</p>
+
+<p><b>Palermo</b> <i>m.</i> Palermo, <i>see note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>p&aacute;lido,&nbsp;-a</b> pallid, pale</p>
+
+<p><b>palma</b> <i>f.</i> palm</p>
+
+<p><b>palpar</b> feel</p>
+
+<p><b>pan</b> <i>m.</i> bread</p>
+
+<p><b>papel</b> <i>m.</i> paper</p>
+
+<p><b>papelito</b> <i>m.</i> (<i>dimin. of</i> <b>papel</b>) slip of paper</p>
+
+<p><b>par</b> <i>m.</i> pair, equal, peer; <b>sin &#126; </b> unequaled, matchless; <b>a &#126; </b> together</p>
+
+<p><b>para</b> for, to, in order to; <b>estar &#126; </b> be about to; <b>&#126; que</b> in order to, in order that</p>
+
+<p><b>parabi&eacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> congratulations</p>
+
+<p><b>parar</b> stop, put a stop to; <b>&#126; se</b> stop, pause</p>
+
+<p><b>pardiez</b> by Jove</p>
+
+<p><b>parecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> seem; <b>me parece</b> I think; <b>al &#126; </b> apparently; <b>&#126; se a</b> resemble</p>
+
+<p><b>pared</b> <i>f.</i> wall</p>
+
+<p><b>pareja</b> <i>f.</i> pair, couple</p>
+
+<p><b>parentela</b> <i>f.</i> kindred, relations</p>
+
+<p><b>p&aacute;rpado</b> <i>m.</i> eyelid</p>
+
+<p><b>parte</b> <i>f.</i> part, place, spot; <b>en cualquier &#126; </b> anywhere</p>
+
+<p><b>particular</b> particular, special; personal, private</p>
+
+<p><b>partida</b> <i>f.</i> departure; <b>&iexcl;de &#126; !</b> on our way!</p>
+
+<p><b>partir</b> part, divide; depart, start; share</p>
+
+<p><b>pasar</b> pass, happen; pierce; pass out; <b>qu&eacute; pasa por m&iacute;</b> what is happening to me, what is wrong with me</p>
+
+<p><b>pasearse</b> walk about</p>
+
+<p><b>pasi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> passion</p>
+
+<p><b>paso</b> <i>m.</i> step, passage, way; <b>al &#126; </b> immediately; <b>a &#126; largo</b> hurriedly, quickly; <b>abrir &#126; </b> make way for; <b>cerrar el &#126; </b> prevent, interfere; <b>dar un &#126; </b> take a step, move; <b>dar &#126; </b> make way; <b>dejar &#126; </b> let pass, make way for</p>
+
+<p><b>patria</b> <i>f.</i> country, fatherland</p>
+
+<p><b>pausa</b> <i>f.</i> pause</p>
+
+<p><b>paz</b> <i>f.</i> peace; <b>venir de &#126; </b> a friend (<i>answer to challenge of sentry</i>)</p>
+
+<p><b>pecar</b> sin, err</p>
+
+<p><b>pecho</b> <i>m.</i> breast, chest; heart</p>
+
+<p><b>pedazo</b> <i>m.</i> piece, fragment</p>
+
+<p><b>pedir</b> <i>irreg.</i> ask, ask for, demand</p>
+
+<p><b>pedrisco</b> <i>m.</i> hailstorm; shower of stones</p>
+
+<p><b>pegado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>pegar</b>) fastened, joined</p>
+
+<p><b>peje</b> <i>m.</i> fish; <b>&#126; espada</b> swordfish</p>
+
+<p><b>peligro</b> <i>m.</i> danger</p>
+
+<p><b>peligroso,&nbsp;-a</b> dangerous</p>
+
+<p><b>pena</b> <i>f.</i> pain, trouble, affliction, penalty</p>
+
+<p><b>pendiente</b> pending, hanging in air; unfinished</p>
+
+<p><b>pensamiento</b> <i>m.</i> mind, thought</p>
+
+<p><b>pensar</b> <i>irreg.</i> think, intend</p>
+
+<p><b>pensativo,&nbsp;-a</b> pensive</p>
+
+<p><b>pensi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> pension, toil</p>
+
+<p><b>peor</b> (<i>comp. of</i> <b>malo</b>) worse, worst</p>
+
+<p><b>peque&ntilde;o,&nbsp;-a</b> small</p>
+
+<p><b>percance</b> <i>m.</i> mischance, misfortune</p>
+
+<p><b>percibir</b> perceive, feel; collect</p>
+
+<p><b>perder</b> <i>irreg.</i> lose, ruin; <b>&#126; se</b> be ruined, be lost</p>
+
+<p><b>perdido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>perder</b>) lost, undone</p>
+
+<p><b>perd&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> pardon</p>
+
+<p><b>perdonar</b> pardon</p>
+
+<p><b>peregrino,&nbsp;-a</b> strange</p>
+
+<p><b>perfecci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> perfection</p>
+
+<p><b>perfectamente</b> perfectly; all right, well and good</p>
+
+<p><b>permanecer</b> <i>irreg.</i> remain</p>
+
+<p><b>permitido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>permitir</b>) permitted</p>
+
+<p><b>permitir</b> permit</p>
+
+<p><b>Pernambuco</b> <i>cf. note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>pero</b> but</p>
+
+<p><b>perpetuo,&nbsp;-a</b> perpetual</p>
+
+<p><b>perro</b> <i>m.</i> dog</p>
+
+<p><b>perseguir</b> <i>irreg.</i> pursue, beset, persecute</p>
+
+<p><b>persona</b> <i>f.</i> person</p>
+
+<p><b>personaje</b> <i>m.</i> personage; character (in theater)</p>
+
+<p><b>persuasi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> persuasion</p>
+
+<p><b>pesado,&nbsp;-a</b> heavy, stupid, serious</p>
+
+<p><b>pesar</b> weigh, cause regret, trouble</p>
+
+<p><b>pesar</b> <i>m.</i> regret, sorrow; <b>a &#126; de</b> in spite of; <b>a su &#126; </b> in spite of herself</p>
+
+<p><b>peso</b> <i>m.</i> weight</p>
+
+<p><b>pesquisa</b> <i>f.</i> search, inquiry</p>
+
+<p><b>petici&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> petition, appeal</p>
+
+<p><b>picante</b> piquant, keen, stinging, hot</p>
+
+<p><b>pie</b> <i>m.</i> foot; <b>al &#126; de</b> at the foot of, beside; <b>al &#126; de la letra</b> literally</p>
+
+<p><b>piedad</b> <i>f.</i> mercy; <b>por &#126; </b> for pity's sake</p>
+
+<p><b>piloto</b> <i>m.</i> pilot</p>
+
+<p><b>pinta</b> <i>f.</i> edge line on card denoting suit; outward appearance</p>
+
+<p><b>pintado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>pintar</b>) painted; <b>os est&aacute; que ni &#126; </b> nothing could be more becoming to you</p>
+
+<p><b>pintar</b> color, paint</p>
+
+<p><b>p&iacute;o,&nbsp;-a</b> pious, devout</p>
+
+<p><b>piropo</b> <i>m.</i> compliment</p>
+
+<p><b>pista</b> <i>f.</i> trail, track, clue</p>
+
+<p><b>pistola</b> <i>f.</i> pistol</p>
+
+<p><b>placer</b> <i>irreg.</i> please, content; <b>plega a Dios</b> God grant</p>
+
+<p><b>placer</b> <i>m.</i> pleasure; <b>ser de &#126; </b> be agreeable, be enjoyable</p>
+
+<p><b>plan</b> <i>m.</i> plan</p>
+
+<p><b>plantar</b> plant; <b>&#126; se el sombrero</b> put on one's hat</p>
+
+<p><b>plaza</b> <i>f.</i> city square</p>
+
+<p><b>plazo</b> <i>m.</i> space of time, term</p>
+
+<p><b>plazuela</b> <i>f.</i> (<i>dimin. of</i> <b>plaza</b>) little square</p>
+
+<p><b>plegaria</b> <i>f.</i> prayer, petition</p>
+
+<p><b>pleito</b> <i>m.</i> lawsuit; <b>estar en &#126; </b> be in the courts, be in doubt</p>
+
+<p><b>pliego</b> <i>m.</i> sheet of paper, folded paper</p>
+
+<p><b>pliegue</b> <i>m.</i> fold</p>
+
+<p><b>plomo</b> <i>m.</i> lead</p>
+
+<p><b>plugo</b> <i>pret. of</i> <b>placer</b></p>
+
+<p><b>pluma</b> <i>f.</i> feather, quill, pen</p>
+
+<p><b>pobre</b> poor, wretched</p>
+
+<p><b>poco,&nbsp;-a</b> little, <i>pl.</i> few, a few, some; <b>un poco</b> a little; <b>poco a poco</b> little by little</p>
+
+<p><b>poder</b> <i>irreg.</i> can, be able, be able to do, be powerful; <b>&#126; lo todo</b> be all-powerful; <b>no puedo m&aacute;s</b> I have reached the end of my resources; <b>puede que</b> it is possible that; <b>&#126; se</b> be possible</p>
+
+<p><b>poder</b> <i>m.</i> power</p>
+
+<p><b>poderoso,&nbsp;-a</b> powerful</p>
+
+<p><b>podrido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>podrir</b>) rotten, decayed</p>
+
+<p><b>podrir</b> <i>irreg.</i> decay</p>
+
+<p><b>poeta</b> <i>m.</i> poet</p>
+
+<p><b>Polimnia</b> the muse of pantomime</p>
+
+<p><b>polvo</b> <i>m.</i> dust</p>
+
+<p><b>p&oacute;lvora</b> <i>f.</i> powder; <b>gastar la &#126; en salvas</b> waste one's strength</p>
+
+<p><b>pompa</b> <i>f.</i> pomp</p>
+
+<p><b>poner</b> <i>irreg.</i> place, put, put on; <b>&#126; se</b> become; <b>&#126; en claro</b> clear up, explain; <b>&#126; en salvo</b> save; <b>&#126; en escena</b> stage; <b>me ha puesto descolorido el semblante</b> has made me turn pale; <b>&#126; preso</b> put under arrest</p>
+
+<p><b>por</b> by, for, in order to, from, for the sake of, through, over, on, in,
+about, around; <b>&#126; debajo</b> beneath; <b>&#126; decirlo as&iacute;</b> so to speak; <b>&#126; eso</b> that is why; <b>&#126; fin</b> finally; <b>poner &#126; obra</b> execute; <b>&#126; este lado</b> on this side; <b>&#126; el contrario</b> on the contrary; <b>&#126; cierto</b> certainly, be sure; <b>&#126; qu&eacute;</b> why</p>
+
+<p><b>porque</b> because, for, in order that</p>
+
+<p><b>portal</b> <i>m.</i> portal, entrance, vestibule</p>
+
+<p><b>porte</b> <i>m.</i> nobility; size, quality, nature; bearing</p>
+
+<p><b>Portugal</b> <i>m.</i> Portugal</p>
+
+<p><b>portugu&eacute;s,&nbsp;-a</b> Portuguese</p>
+
+<p><b>porvenir</b> <i>m.</i> future</p>
+
+<p><b>pos</b>: <b>en &#126; </b> afterward, behind; <b>en &#126; de</b> after</p>
+
+<p><b>posada</b> <i>f.</i> inn, lodging</p>
+
+<p><b>postrer</b> <i>see</i> <b>postrero</b></p>
+
+<p><b>postrero,&nbsp;-a</b> last, final</p>
+
+<p><b>p&oacute;stumo,&nbsp;-a</b> posthumous</p>
+
+<p><b>practicable</b> practicable, usable</p>
+
+<p><b>precio</b> <i>m.</i> price</p>
+
+<p><b>precipicio</b> <i>m.</i> precipice; brink</p>
+
+<p><b>precipitaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> precipitation</p>
+
+<p><b>precipitarse</b> rush</p>
+
+<p><b>preciso,&nbsp;-a</b> necessary, essential</p>
+
+<p><b>preeminencia</b> <i>f.</i> pre&euml;minence</p>
+
+<p><b>preferencia</b> <i>f.</i> preference</p>
+
+<p><b>preferir</b> <i>irreg.</i> prefer</p>
+
+<p><b>pregunta</b> <i>f.</i> question</p>
+
+<p><b>preguntar</b> ask (question)</p>
+
+<p><b>premio</b> <i>m.</i> reward, prize</p>
+
+<p><b>prenda</b> <i>f.</i> pledge, noble characteristic</p>
+
+<p><b>prender</b> <i>irreg.</i> arrest; fasten</p>
+
+<p><b>pre&ntilde;ado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>pre&ntilde;ar</b>) pregnant, charged with</p>
+
+<p><b>preocupaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> preoccupation</p>
+
+<p><b>preocupado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>preocupar</b>) preoccupied</p>
+
+<p><b>preparado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>preparar</b>) prepared</p>
+
+<p><b>preparar</b> prepare</p>
+
+<p><b>prescribir</b> <i>irreg.</i> prescribe</p>
+
+<p><b>presencia</b> <i>f.</i> presence</p>
+
+<p><b>presenciar</b> witness, be present at</p>
+
+<p><b>presentar</b> present, bring forward</p>
+
+<p><b>presente</b> present; <b>hacerse &#126; </b> make one's presence felt; <b>tener &#126; </b> bear in mind</p>
+
+<p><b>presente</b> <i>m.</i> present, gift</p>
+
+<p><b>preso,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> prender) imprisoned, prisoner, in custody</p>
+
+<p><b>prestar</b> lend, furnish</p>
+
+<p><b>presunci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> assumption</p>
+
+<p><b>pretender</b> pretend, claim, solicit</p>
+
+<p><b>prevenci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> warning, prejudice</p>
+
+<p><b>prevenido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp of.</i> <b>prevenir</b>) prepared, arranged</p>
+
+<p><b>prevenir</b> <i>irreg.</i> prepare, provide; warn, notify</p>
+
+<p><b>prima</b> <i>f.</i> cousin; <b>&#126; hermana</b> first cousin</p>
+
+<p><b>primer</b> <i>see</i> <b>primero</b></p>
+
+<p><b>primero,&nbsp;-a</b> first, best</p>
+
+<p><b>primero</b> first, before</p>
+
+<p><b>primo</b> <i>m.</i> cousin</p>
+
+<p><b>principal</b> principal, of high rank, of high importance</p>
+
+<p><b>pr&iacute;ncipe</b> <i>m.</i> prince</p>
+
+<p><b>principio</b> <i>m.</i> beginning</p>
+
+<p><b>prisi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> prison, arrest</p>
+
+<p><b>privado</b> favorite</p>
+
+<p><b>privanza</b> <i>f.</i> favor at court; administration (of arbitrarily appointed official)</p>
+
+<p><b>privar</b> enjoy privileges of favorite</p>
+
+<p><b>pro</b>: <b>en &#126; de</b> in behalf of</p>
+
+<p><b>probar</b> <i>irreg.</i> prove</p>
+
+<p><b>proceder</b> proceed</p>
+
+<p><b>proceder</b> <i>m.</i> procedure, conduct</p>
+
+<p><b>procesi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> procession</p>
+
+<p><b>producir</b> <i>irreg.</i> produce, cause</p>
+
+<p><b>profundo,&nbsp;-a</b> profound, deep</p>
+
+<p><b>prohibici&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> prohibition, interdict</p>
+
+<p><b>prole</b> <i>f.</i> offspring; race, children</p>
+
+<p><b>prolijo,&nbsp;-a</b> prolix, long-winded</p>
+
+<p><b>promesa</b> <i>f.</i> promise</p>
+
+<p><b>prometer</b> promise</p>
+
+<p><b>prontitud</b> <i>f.</i> promptness</p>
+
+<p><b>pronto,&nbsp;-a</b> ready, swift, prompt; <b>al pronto</b> at first</p>
+
+<p><b>pronto</b> soon, quickly, promptly; <b>&#126; y clarito</b> straight out, frankly</p>
+
+<p><b>pronunciar</b> pronounce</p>
+
+<p><b>propicio,&nbsp;-a</b> propitious</p>
+
+<p><b>propio,&nbsp;-a</b> own, same, self; natural; particular; becoming, proper; <b>amor propio</b> self-respect, conceit</p>
+
+<p><b>proseguir</b> <i>irreg.</i> pursue, continue</p>
+
+<p><b>proteger</b> protect</p>
+
+<p><b>proveer</b> <i>irreg.</i> provide</p>
+
+<p><b>provincia</b> <i>f.</i> province, dependency</p>
+
+<p><b>provocar</b> provoke, stir, arouse</p>
+
+<p><b>pr&oacute;ximo,&nbsp;-a</b> nearest, next</p>
+
+<p><b>prudencia</b> <i>f.</i> prudence, moderation</p>
+
+<p><b>prudente</b> prudent</p>
+
+<p><b>prueba</b> <i>f.</i> proof</p>
+
+<p><b>p&uacute;blico,&nbsp;-a</b> public; <b>&#126; y notorio</b> generally known</p>
+
+<p><b>pueblo</b> <i>m.</i> people, populace</p>
+
+<p><b>puerta</b> <i>f.</i> door, gate</p>
+
+<p><b>puerto</b> <i>m.</i> port, haven; <b>salir a &#126; seguro</b> reach a safe port, come out all right</p>
+
+<p><b>pues</b> since, because, then, as; well, why; <b>&#126; que</b> since</p>
+
+<p><b>puesto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>poner</b>) placed; <b>&#126; en alto</b> raised, raised on high; <b>ya &#126; la tiene</b> he is wearing it already</p>
+
+<p><b>puesto</b> <i>m.</i> place</p>
+
+<p><b>pulla</b> <i>f.</i> witty saying, jest; dig</p>
+
+<p><b>punta</b> <i>f.</i> point</p>
+
+<p><b>punto</b> <i>m.</i> point, moment, matter, object; <b>a &#126; </b> on the spot; <b>al &#126; </b> immediately</p>
+
+<p><b>puntual</b> punctual, prompt</p>
+
+<p><b>pu&ntilde;al</b> <i>m.</i> dagger</p>
+
+<p><b>pu&ntilde;alada</b> <i>f.</i> dagger-blow</p>
+
+<p><b>pu&ntilde;o</b> <i>m.</i> fist, hand; <b>de &#126; propio</b> in his own handwriting</p>
+
+<p><b>puro,&nbsp;-a</b> pure, mere, sheer; chaste <b>que</b> who, which, that; <b>el &#126; </b> he who, who, which; <b>la &#126; </b> she who, who, which; <b>lo &#126; </b> that which, what</p>
+
+<p><b>que</b> for, because, that, since; as, than</p>
+
+<p><b>&iquest;qu&eacute;?</b> which, what; <b>por &#126; </b> why; <b>&#126; de</b> what</p>
+
+<p><b>&iexcl;qu&eacute;!</b> what, why, what a; <b>&#126; tan</b> what a, what</p>
+
+<p><b>quebranto</b> <i>m.</i> breaking, grief; damage</p>
+
+<p><b>quedar</b> remain, stay, be left; be; <b>&#126; se</b> remain, be</p>
+
+<p><b>quedo,&nbsp;-a</b> quiet, still, gentle</p>
+
+<p><b>quedo</b> slowly</p>
+
+<p><b>quemar</b> burn</p>
+
+<p><b>quemarropa</b>: <b>a &#126; </b> point-blank</p>
+
+<p><b>querella</b> <i>f.</i> complaint</p>
+
+<p><b>querer</b> <i>irreg.</i> wish, want, be willing, like, try; <b>&#126; a</b> love; <b>&#126; decir</b> mean</p>
+
+<p><b>querido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>querer</b>) beloved, loved</p>
+
+<p><b>Quevedo</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>quiebra</b> <i>f.</i> crack, fissure, fracture</p>
+
+<p><b>quien</b> who, whom; the one who, he who <i>etc.</i>; <b>por &#126; soy</b> on my honor</p>
+
+<p><b>qui&eacute;n</b> who? <b>&#126; otro pudiera</b> would it were another; <b>&#126; para &#126; </b> man to man, on equal footing</p>
+
+<p><b>quieto,&nbsp;-a</b> quiet, still</p>
+
+<p><b>quimera</b> <i>f.</i> an impossibility which suggests itself to the mind as possible, chimera, futile idea, dream</p>
+
+<p><b>quince</b> fifteen</p>
+
+<p><b>quitar</b> take away, take off, ward off; <b>ya no quit&aacute;is ni pon&eacute;is</b> you can neither ruin me nor make me now</p>
+
+<p><b>quiz&aacute;s</b> perhaps <b>rabia</b> <i>f.</i> rage, anger</p>
+
+<p><b>rabiar</b> rage, suffer great pain</p>
+
+<p><b>radiante</b> radiant, brilliant</p>
+
+<p><b>ra&iacute;z</b> <i>f.</i> root</p>
+
+<p><b>rama</b> <i>f.</i> branch; <b>andar por las &#126; s</b> beat about the bush</p>
+
+<p><b>ramal</b> <i>m.</i> branch, division</p>
+
+<p><b>r&aacute;pidamente</b> rapidly, quickly</p>
+
+<p><b>rapidez</b> <i>f.</i> rapidity</p>
+
+<p><b>raqu&iacute;tico,&nbsp;-a</b> rickety, feeble</p>
+
+<p><b>raro,&nbsp;-a</b> rare, strange; <b>&iexcl;cosa m&aacute;s rara!</b> how strange!</p>
+
+<p><b>rasgar</b> tear up</p>
+
+<p><b>rastrojo</b> <i>m.</i> stubble</p>
+
+<p><b>rato</b> <i>m.</i> while, short space of time</p>
+
+<p><b>rat&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> mouse</p>
+
+<p><b>rayo</b> <i>m.</i> ray; thunderbolt</p>
+
+<p><b>raza</b> <i>f.</i> race, family</p>
+
+<p><b>raz&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> reason, intellect, argument, explanation; right, justice; way, method; <b>es &#126; </b> it is right</p>
+
+<p><b>real</b> real; royal</p>
+
+<p><b>rebozado,&nbsp;-a</b> <i>(pp. of</i> <b>rebozar</b>) muffled; disguised</p>
+
+<p><b>rebozar</b> muffle; disguise</p>
+
+<p><b>recado</b> <i>m.</i> message, errand, outfit; <b>&#126; de escribir</b> writing materials</p>
+
+<p><b>recalcar</b> emphasize</p>
+
+<p><b>recaudo</b> <i>m.</i>: <b>a buen &#126; </b> well guarded, in safe keeping</p>
+
+<p><b>recelo</b> <i>m.</i> misgiving, fear, suspicion</p>
+
+<p><b>recibir</b> receive, admit</p>
+
+<p><b>recio,&nbsp;-a</b> strong, stout; severe, hard</p>
+
+<p><b>recitar</b> recite</p>
+
+<p><b>recobrar</b> recover</p>
+
+<p><b>recoger</b> pick up, gather</p>
+
+<p><b>recompensa</b> <i>f.</i> recompense, reward</p>
+
+<p><b>reconcentrar</b> concentrate</p>
+
+<p><b>reconciliar</b> reconcile</p>
+
+<p><b>recordar</b> <i>irreg.</i> remember, recall</p>
+
+<p><b>recuerdo</b> <i>m.</i> memory, remembrance</p>
+
+<p><b>rechazar</b> repel, repulse, reject</p>
+
+<p><b>redenci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> redemption</p>
+
+<p><b>reflejo</b> <i>m.</i> reflection</p>
+
+<p><b>reflexi&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> reflection</p>
+
+<p><b>regazo</b> <i>m.</i> lap; care</p>
+
+<p><b>regio,&nbsp;-a</b> regal, kingly</p>
+
+<p><b>registrar</b> search</p>
+
+<p><b>registro</b> <i>m.</i> search; register, organ stop</p>
+
+<p><b>regla</b> <i>f.</i> rule</p>
+
+<p><b>regreso</b> <i>m.</i> return</p>
+
+<p><b>rehacio,&nbsp;-a</b> stubborn, reluctant, obstinate</p>
+
+<p><b>reina</b> <i>f.</i> queen</p>
+
+<p><b>reinar</b> reign</p>
+
+<p><b>reino</b> <i>m.</i> kingdom</p>
+
+<p><b>re&iacute;r</b> <i>irreg.</i> laugh; <b>&#126; se</b> laugh</p>
+
+<p><b>reloj</b> <i>m.</i> watch, clock; <b>&#126; de sol</b> sun-dial</p>
+
+<p><b>remedio</b> <i>m.</i> remedy, help</p>
+
+<p><b>remojado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>remojar</b>) steeped, soaked</p>
+
+<p><b>remordimiento</b> <i>m.</i> remorse, regret</p>
+
+<p><b>rencor</b> <i>m.</i> rancor</p>
+
+<p><b>rendir</b> <i>irreg.</i> render, surrender; <b>&#126; vasallaje</b> do homage</p>
+
+<p><b>rengl&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> line</p>
+
+<p><b>reparar en</b> notice</p>
+
+<p><b>repasar</b> review, peruse</p>
+
+<p><b>repentinamente</b> suddenly</p>
+
+<p><b>repetir</b> <i>irreg.</i> repeat</p>
+
+<p><b>reposar</b> repose, rest</p>
+
+<p><b>representaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> representation, performance</p>
+
+<p><b>representar</b> represent, perform, act (of drama)</p>
+
+<p><b>reprimir</b> repress, check</p>
+
+<p><b>reprochar</b> reproach</p>
+
+<p><b>repugnancia</b> <i>f.</i> repugnance, disgust</p>
+
+<p><b>repugnar</b> inspire with repugnance, inspire with loathing</p>
+
+<p><b>rescatar</b> rescue</p>
+
+<p><b>resignaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> resignation</p>
+
+<p><b>resolver</b> <i>irreg.</i> resolve, determine, decide</p>
+
+<p><b>resonar</b> <i>irreg.</i> resound, sound</p>
+
+<p><b>respetar</b> respect, revere, honor</p>
+
+<p><b>respeto</b> <i>m.</i> respect</p>
+
+<p><b>respirar</b> breathe</p>
+
+<p><b>responder</b> answer; <b>&#126; de</b> answer for, be responsible for, acknowledge</p>
+
+<p><b>restar</b> subtract, remain; <b>&#126; con el dedo</b> subtract on one's fingers</p>
+
+<p><b>resuelto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>resolver</b>) determined, ready; <b>&#126; a todo</b> ready for anything, stopping at nothing</p>
+
+<p><b>retablo</b> <i>m.</i> series of figures that represent some historical occurrence, scene, picture</p>
+
+<p><b>retint&iacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> tinkle, jingle</p>
+
+<p><b>retirada</b> <i>f.</i> retreat</p>
+
+<p><b>retirar(se)</b> retire, withdraw</p>
+
+<p><b>retiro</b> <i>m.</i> retirement, seclusion</p>
+
+<p><b>retroceder</b> retreat, give ground</p>
+
+<p><b>reventar</b> <i>irreg.</i> burst</p>
+
+<p><b>reverencia</b> <i>f.</i> reverence, courtly bow</p>
+
+<p><b>reverenciar</b> reverence, revere</p>
+
+<p><b>revuelto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>revolver</b>) confused</p>
+
+<p><b>rey</b> <i>m.</i> king</p>
+
+<p><b>reyezuelo</b> (<i>dim. of</i> <b>rey</b>) petty king</p>
+
+<p><b>rezar</b> pray</p>
+
+<p><b>rico,&nbsp;-a</b> rich</p>
+
+<p><b>rid&iacute;culo,&nbsp;-a</b> ridiculous, absurd</p>
+
+<p><b>riesgo</b> <i>m.</i> risk, peril</p>
+
+<p><b>rigor</b> <i>m.</i> severity</p>
+
+<p><b>Ripalda</b> <i>proper name</i></p>
+
+<p><b>risa</b> <i>f.</i> laugh, laughter</p>
+
+<p><b>risotada</b> <i>f.</i> loud laugh, burst of laughter</p>
+
+<p><b>risue&ntilde;o,&nbsp;-a</b> smiling, pleasing</p>
+
+<p><b>rival</b> <i>m.</i> rival</p>
+
+<p><b>robusto,&nbsp;-a</b> robust, strong, stout</p>
+
+<p><b>roca</b> <i>f.</i> rock, stone</p>
+
+<p><b>rodeado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>rodear</b>) surrounded</p>
+
+<p><b>rodear</b> surround</p>
+
+<p><b>rodilla</b> <i>f.</i> knee; <b>&#126; en tierra</b> kneeling on one knee</p>
+
+<p><b>rodrig&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> elderly servant who accompanies ladies</p>
+
+<p><b>rogar</b> <i>irreg.</i> pray, beseech</p>
+
+<p><b>rojo,&nbsp;-a</b> red</p>
+
+<p><b>romance</b> <i>m.</i> ballad</p>
+
+<p><b>romper</b> break</p>
+
+<p><b>rompimiento</b> <i>m.</i> glimpse</p>
+
+<p><b>ronco,&nbsp;-a</b> hoarse</p>
+
+<p><b>ronda</b> <i>f.</i> night patrol of police</p>
+
+<p><b>rondar</b> patrol, walk about streets at night; prowl</p>
+
+<p><b>ropa</b> <i>f.</i> wearing apparel, clothes</p>
+
+<p><b>Rosell&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> Roussillon, <i>cf. note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>rostro</b> <i>m.</i> face</p>
+
+<p><b>roto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>romper</b>) broken; <b>hostilidades rotas</b> hostilities begun</p>
+
+<p><b>rudo,&nbsp;-a</b> rude, coarse, rough</p>
+
+<p><b>ruido</b> <i>m.</i> noise</p>
+
+<p><b>ruin</b> low, base, miserable, wretched, mean</p>
+
+<p><b>ruina</b> <i>f.</i> ruin, downfall</p>
+
+<p><b>rumor</b> <i>m.</i> rumor, sound, noise <b>sabedor,&nbsp;-a</b> aware of, knowing</p>
+
+<p><b>saber</b> <i>irreg.</i> know, find out, hear, know how; <b>qu&eacute; s&eacute; yo</b> how do I know; <b>no s&eacute; qu&eacute;</b> something or other</p>
+
+<p><b>sabio,&nbsp;-a</b> wise, sage, cunning</p>
+
+<p><b>Saboya</b> <i>f.</i> Savoy</p>
+
+<p><b>sacar</b> take out, draw out, draw; <b>&#126; la espada a</b> draw on; <b>&#126; en limpio</b> find out, come to a conclusion</p>
+
+<p><b>saciar</b> sate, satiate</p>
+
+<p><b>saco</b> <i>m.</i> bag, sack; garment of rough cloth; <b>como el &#126; de sus vicios</b> like the burden of his sins</p>
+
+<p><b>sacrificio</b> <i>m.</i> sacrifice</p>
+
+<p><b>sagrado,&nbsp;-a</b> sacred, holy</p>
+
+<p><b>sala</b> <i>f.</i> hall, room</p>
+
+<p><b>salida</b> <i>f.</i> departure; exit</p>
+
+<p><b>salina</b> <i>f.</i> salt-works</p>
+
+<p><b>salir</b> <i>irreg.</i> come out, go out; enter; <b>&#126; al encuentro</b> come to meet</p>
+
+<p><b>saliva</b> <i>f.</i> saliva</p>
+
+<p><b>sal&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> drawing-room, hall</p>
+
+<p><b>salud</b> <i>f.</i> health; greeting</p>
+
+<p><b>saludar</b> salute, greet, bow</p>
+
+<p><b>saludo</b> <i>m.</i> salute, bow, greeting</p>
+
+<p><b>salva</b> <i>f.</i> salute; <b>hacer una &#126; </b> fire a salute</p>
+
+<p><b>salvaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> salvation</p>
+
+<p><b>salvador,&nbsp;-a</b> saving</p>
+
+<p><b>salvador</b> <i>m.</i> savior</p>
+
+<p><b>salvar</b> save</p>
+
+<p><b>salvo,&nbsp;-a</b> safe; <b>poner en &#126; </b> save</p>
+
+<p><b>san</b> <i>see</i> <b>santo</b></p>
+
+<p><b>sandez</b> <i>f.</i> foolishness, stupidity</p>
+
+<p><b>sangrar(se)</b> bleed</p>
+
+<p><b>sangre</b> <i>f.</i> blood; stock</p>
+
+<p><b>sangriento,&nbsp;-a</b> blood-stained; <b>tono &#126; </b> bitter tone, mordant tone</p>
+
+<p><b>San Lorenzo</b> St. Lawrence (<i>l. 2733</i>, el Escorial)</p>
+
+<p><b>San Marcos</b> St. Mark, <i>cf. note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>San Mart&iacute;n</b> St. Martin, church of St. Martin</p>
+
+<p><b>Santiago</b> <i>m.</i> St. James</p>
+
+<p><b>santiagu&eacute;s</b> of the order of St. James</p>
+
+<p><b>santo,&nbsp;-a</b> saint; saintly, holy</p>
+
+<p><b>San Vito</b> <i>m.</i> St. Vitus, <i>see note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>sa&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> rage, fury</p>
+
+<p><b>sarcasmo</b> <i>m.</i> sarcasm; bit of irony, bit of sarcasm</p>
+
+<p><b>Satan&aacute;s</b> <i>m.</i> Satan</p>
+
+<p><b>s&aacute;tira</b> <i>f.</i> satire</p>
+
+<p><b>say&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> executioner</p>
+
+<p><b>saz&oacute;n: a la &#126; </b> at the time</p>
+
+<p><b>se</b> himself, herself, itself; to himself <i>etc.</i>; themselves, to themselves; each other, to each other</p>
+
+<p><b>se</b> (<b>lo, la,</b> <i>etc.</i>) to him <i>etc.</i></p>
+
+<p><b>s&eacute;</b> <i>see</i> <b>saber</b></p>
+
+<p><b>seco,&nbsp;-a</b> dry</p>
+
+<p><b>secreto,&nbsp;-a</b> secret</p>
+
+<p><b>secreto</b> <i>m.</i> secret</p>
+
+<p><b>seguida</b>: <b>en &#126; </b> at once, immediately</p>
+
+<p><b>seguido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>seguir</b>) followed</p>
+
+<p><b>seguir</b> <i>irreg.</i> follow, continue; <b>os le quiero &#126; </b> I would follow your example there</p>
+
+<p><b>seg&uacute;n</b> according to, as, judging from; <b>&#126; y conforme</b> it depends; <b>&#126; dicen</b> according to what they say, so they say</p>
+
+<p><b>segundo,&nbsp;-a</b> second</p>
+
+<p><b>seguridad</b> <i>f.</i> security</p>
+
+<p><b>seguro,&nbsp;-a</b> secure, infallible, reliable, certain, unfaltering, sure,
+safe; <b>de &#126; </b> surely, undoubtedly</p>
+
+<p><b>seis</b> six</p>
+
+<p><b>sellado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>sellar</b>) sealed</p>
+
+<p><b>sellar</b> seal</p>
+
+<p><b>sello</b> <i>m.</i> seal, stamp, mark</p>
+
+<p><b>semblante</b> <i>m.</i> face, countenance</p>
+
+<p><b>sembrar</b> <i>irreg.</i> sow, scatter</p>
+
+<p><b>semic&iacute;rculo</b> <i>m.</i> semicircle</p>
+
+<p><b>sentado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>sentar</b>) seated</p>
+
+<p><b>sentarse</b> <i>irreg.</i> sit down, be seated</p>
+
+<p><b>sentencia</b> <i>f.</i> sentence, decision, maxim</p>
+
+<p><b>sentimiento</b> <i>m.</i> emotion, grief, concern</p>
+
+<p><b>sentir</b> <i>irreg.</i> feel, perceive, hear; regret, be sorry for</p>
+
+<p><b>se&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> sign, signal</p>
+
+<p><b>se&ntilde;al</b> <i>f.</i> sign, indication; <b>en &#126; de</b> as a sign of</p>
+
+<p><b>se&ntilde;alado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>se&ntilde;alar</b>) marked, signal</p>
+
+<p><b>se&ntilde;alar</b> point out, point to</p>
+
+<p><b>se&ntilde;or</b> <i>m.</i> gentleman, lord, master; sir</p>
+
+<p><b>se&ntilde;ora</b> <i>f.</i> lady; my lady (<i>in direct address</i>)</p>
+
+<p><b>separaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> separation</p>
+
+<p><b>separado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>separar</b>) separated, removed</p>
+
+<p><b>separar</b> separate, remove</p>
+
+<p><b>sepultura</b> <i>f.</i> sepulcher, tomb, grave, burial</p>
+
+<p><b>ser</b> <i>irreg.</i> be; <b>a no &#126; por</b> if it were not for; <b>es que</b> the fact is that, the reason is that; <b>&eacute;rase</b> once upon a time there was, <i>see note, l. 1685</i>; <b>sea... sea...</b> whether... or</p>
+
+<p><b>ser</b> <i>m.</i> being, life</p>
+
+<p><b>sereno,&nbsp;-a</b> serene, calm, quiet</p>
+
+<p><b>serio,&nbsp;-a</b> serious, grave</p>
+
+<p><b>servicio</b> <i>m.</i> service, benefit</p>
+
+<p><b>servidor</b> <i>m.</i> servant, servitor, retainer</p>
+
+<p><b>servidumbre</b> <i>f.</i> attendance; household servants and dependents, suite</p>
+
+<p><b>servir</b> <i>irreg.</i> serve, be of service, wait upon, act as escort; <b>&#126; de</b> serve as, serve for; <b>pues a &#126; me</b> then do my bidding</p>
+
+<p><b>severo,&nbsp;-a</b> severe, stern</p>
+
+<p><b>si</b> if; indeed; <b>&#126; bien</b> although</p>
+
+<p><b>s&iacute;</b> yes, indeed</p>
+
+<p><b>s&iacute;</b> himself <i>etc.</i></p>
+
+<p><b>sicario</b> <i>m.</i> (paid) assassin</p>
+
+<p><b>Sicilia</b> <i>f.</i> Sicily</p>
+
+<p><b>siempre</b> always, ever; <b>&#126; que</b> whenever</p>
+
+<p><b>sien</b> <i>f.</i> temple</p>
+
+<p><b>silencio</b> <i>m.</i> silence</p>
+
+<p><b>silla</b> <i>f.</i> chair</p>
+
+<p><b>sill&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> armchair, easy chair</p>
+
+<p><b>simple</b> silly, idiotic; artless, ingenuous</p>
+
+<p><b>sin</b> without; <b>&#126; embargo</b> however, nevertheless; <b>&#126; que</b> without, except that</p>
+
+<p><b>sinapismo</b> <i>m.</i> sinapism, mustard plaster</p>
+
+<p><b>sincero,&nbsp;-a</b> sincere</p>
+
+<p><b>singular</b> singular, strange, special, particular</p>
+
+<p><b>siniestro,&nbsp;-a</b> sinister, unlucky, threatening, ominous</p>
+
+<p><b>sino</b> but, except; <b>&#126; que</b> but rather; without</p>
+
+<p><b>siquiera</b> even, at least; <b>ni tan &#126; </b> not even</p>
+
+<p><b>situaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> situation, plight</p>
+
+<p><b>soberano,&nbsp;-a</b> sovereign, ruling</p>
+
+<p><b>soberano</b> <i>m.</i> sovereign, ruler</p>
+
+<p><b>sobrar</b> be more than enough, be in excess, be left over; <b>me sobra...</b> I have plenty, I have more than enough</p>
+
+<p><b>sobre</b> over, on, about, to; <b>&#126; todo</b> above all</p>
+
+<p><b>sobrescrito</b> <i>m.</i> address, superscription; preliminaries (of letter)</p>
+
+<p><b>sociedad</b> <i>f.</i> society</p>
+
+<p><b>socorrer</b> succor, help; send re&euml;nforcements; relieve</p>
+
+<p><b>socorro</b> <i>m.</i> help, re&euml;enforcements, relief</p>
+
+<p><b>sol</b> <i>m.</i> sun</p>
+
+<p><b>solamente</b> only</p>
+
+<p><b>soldado</b> <i>m.</i> soldier</p>
+
+<p><b>soledad</b> <i>f.</i> solitude</p>
+
+<p><b>solemne</b> solemn, impressive</p>
+
+<p><b>solemnidad</b> <i>f.</i> solemnity</p>
+
+<p><b>solemnizar</b> solemnize, celebrate; hold (of ceremony)</p>
+
+<p><b>soler</b> <i>irreg.</i> be customary, be accustomed to</p>
+
+<p><b>solicitar</b> solicit, beg</p>
+
+<p><b>solicitud</b> <i>f.</i> solicitude</p>
+
+<p><b>solio</b> <i>m.</i> canopied throne, throne</p>
+
+<p><b>solitario,&nbsp;-a</b> lonely, solitary, secluded</p>
+
+<p><b>solo,&nbsp;-a</b> alone, solitary, sole, single, empty; <b>a solas</b> alone</p>
+
+<p><b>s&oacute;lo</b> only, solely</p>
+
+<p><b>soltar</b> <i>irreg.</i> let go, let out, let loose; relinquish, release</p>
+
+<p><b>soltero,&nbsp;-a</b> single, unmarried</p>
+
+<p><b>soltero</b> <i>m.</i> bachelor</p>
+
+<p><b>sombra</b> <i>f.</i> shadow, darkness; shade, protection</p>
+
+<p><b>sombrero</b> <i>m.</i> hat</p>
+
+<p><b>sombr&iacute;o,&nbsp;-a</b> gloomy, dark</p>
+
+<p><b>son</b> <i>m.</i> sound</p>
+
+<p><b>sonar</b> <i>irreg.</i> sound</p>
+
+<p><b>soneto</b> <i>m.</i> sonnet</p>
+
+<p><b>sonoro,&nbsp;-a</b> sonorous</p>
+
+<p><b>sonre&iacute;r</b> <i>irreg.</i> smile</p>
+
+<p><b>sonrisa</b> <i>f.</i> smile</p>
+
+<p><b>sonrojarse</b> blush</p>
+
+<p><b>sonrojo</b> <i>m.</i> blush, affront</p>
+
+<p><b>so&ntilde;ar</b> (<i>irreg.</i> <b>con</b>) dream</p>
+
+<p><b>soplar</b> blow, blow out, breathe upon; inspire</p>
+
+<p><b>soportar</b> endure, suffer</p>
+
+<p><b>sordo,&nbsp;-a</b> deaf; silent, stealthy</p>
+
+<p><b>sorna</b> <i>f.</i> slowness, deliberation</p>
+
+<p><b>sorprender</b> surprise, take unawares</p>
+
+<p><b>sorpresa</b> <i>f.</i> surprise</p>
+
+<p><b>sosiego</b> <i>m.</i> tranquillity, calm; peace of mind</p>
+
+<p><b>sospecha</b> <i>f.</i> suspicion</p>
+
+<p><b>sospechar</b> suspect</p>
+
+<p><b>su</b> his, her, its, their</p>
+
+<p><b>s&uacute;bdito</b> <i>m.</i> subject</p>
+
+<p><b>subir</b> ascend, rise; bring up</p>
+
+<p><b>sublime</b> sublime, heroic, grand</p>
+
+<p><b>subrayado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>subrayar</b>) underlined, italicized</p>
+
+<p><b>suceder</b> happen, succeed</p>
+
+<p><b>sucesor</b> <i>m.</i> successor, heir</p>
+
+<p><b>sudar</b> sweat, toil</p>
+
+<p><b>suelo</b> <i>m.</i> ground, soil</p>
+
+<p><b>sue&ntilde;o</b> <i>m.</i> dream, fancy</p>
+
+<p><b>suerte</b> <i>f.</i> chance, fortune, destiny</p>
+
+<p><b>sufrimiento</b> <i>m.</i> suffering</p>
+
+<p><b>sufrir</b> suffer</p>
+
+<p><b>sujetar</b> subdue, hold fast, catch, restrain</p>
+
+<p><b>superior</b> superior, above</p>
+
+<p><b>superlativo,&nbsp;-a</b> superlative</p>
+
+<p><b>supersticioso,&nbsp;-a</b> superstitious</p>
+
+<p><b>s&uacute;plica</b> <i>f.</i> supplication, petition, request</p>
+
+<p><b>suplicante</b> supplicating</p>
+
+<p><b>suplicar</b> supplicate, beseech</p>
+
+<p><b>suponer</b> <i>irreg.</i> suppose</p>
+
+<p><b>surcar</b> plow, furrow</p>
+
+<p><b>suspenso,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>suspender</b>) surprised, astonished, distraught</p>
+
+<p><b>suspiro</b> <i>m.</i> sigh</p>
+
+<p><b>sustento</b> <i>m.</i> sustenance, food, maintenance</p>
+
+<p><b>susto</b> <i>m.</i> shock, surprise, astonishment</p>
+
+<p><b>suyo,&nbsp;-a</b> his, her, their <b>tahur</b> <i>m.</i> gambler</p>
+
+<p><b>tal</b> such, such a, the aforesaid, this; so; <b>qu&eacute; &#126; </b> how goes it, how about it; <b>si &#126; </b> surely, by all means</p>
+
+<p><b>talento</b> <i>m.</i> talent, genius</p>
+
+<p><b>Tal&iacute;a</b> Thalia, muse of comedy (<i>see note</i>)</p>
+
+<p><b>tambi&eacute;n</b> also</p>
+
+<p><b>tamboril</b> <i>m.</i> timbrel</p>
+
+<p><b>tan</b> so, such, so, as, such a; <b>&#126; s&oacute;lo</b> only; <b>&#126;... como</b> as... as; <b>&#126;... que</b> as... as</p>
+
+<p><b>tanto,&nbsp;-a</b> so, so much, as much;
+<i>pl.</i> so many, as many; <b>en &#126; </b> meanwhile; <b>en &#126; que</b> while</p>
+
+<p><b>tapado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>tapar</b>) covered (<i>see note, ll. 5-6</i>)</p>
+
+<p><b>tapa-enredijos</b> <i>m.</i> tangle-screener</p>
+
+<p><b>tapar</b> cover</p>
+
+<p><b>tapia</b> <i>f.</i> wall (of yard or garden)</p>
+
+<p><b>tarantela</b> <i>f.</i> tarantella</p>
+
+<p><b>tardanza</b> <i>f.</i> delay, tardiness</p>
+
+<p><b>tardar</b> delay, be late, be long</p>
+
+<p><b>tarde</b> late, too late</p>
+
+<p><b>tarde</b> <i>f.</i> afternoon</p>
+
+<p><b>Tarifa</b> <i>f.</i> Tarifa, <i>cf. note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>te</b> you, to you</p>
+
+<p><b>teatral</b> theatrical</p>
+
+<p><b>teatro</b> <i>m.</i> theater</p>
+
+<p><b>tedio</b> <i>m.</i> tedium, weariness</p>
+
+<p><b>tel&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> curtain</p>
+
+<p><b>temblar</b> <i>irreg.</i> tremble</p>
+
+<p><b>temblor</b> <i>m.</i> trembling, agitation</p>
+
+<p><b>temer</b> fear, be afraid; <b>&#126; se</b> fear, be afraid</p>
+
+<p><b>temerario,&nbsp;-a</b> daring, rash, imprudent</p>
+
+<p><b>temor</b> <i>m.</i> fear</p>
+
+<p><b>templanza</b> <i>f.</i> moderation</p>
+
+<p><b>temple</b> <i>m.</i> temper</p>
+
+<p><b>templo</b> <i>m.</i> temple, church</p>
+
+<p><b>tenaz</b> (<i>pl.</i> <b>&#126; ces</b>) tenacious, obstinate</p>
+
+<p><b>tender</b> <i>irreg.</i> stretch forth, hold out</p>
+
+<p><b>tendido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>tender</b>) stretched out, lying prone</p>
+
+<p><b>tener</b> <i>irreg.</i> have, hold, keep; <b>&#126; hambre</b> be hungry; <b>&#126; gracia</b> be funny, be witty; <b>&#126; raz&oacute;n</b> be right; <b>&#126; miedo</b> be afraid; <b>&#126; presente</b> bear in mind; <b>&#126; que</b> must; <b>&#126; de</b> must; <b>&#126; a bien</b> regard as advisable; <b>&#126; para s&iacute;</b> have an opinion; <b>tengo para m&iacute;</b> my own opinion is; <b>&#126; en cuenta</b> take into consideration; <b>ya te tengo bien seguro</b> now I have you where I want you; <b>t&eacute;ngame Dios de su mano</b> may heaven restrain me; <b>qu&eacute; tiene</b> what is the matter with him</p>
+
+<p><b>tercero,&nbsp;-a</b> third; <b>Islas Terceras</b> Azores, <i>cf. note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>terciana</b> <i>f.</i> tertian fever, chills and fever</p>
+
+<p><b>terminante</b> definite, final</p>
+
+<p><b>t&eacute;rmino</b> <i>m.</i> term, end; <b>primer &#126; </b> foreground (side); <b>segundo &#126; </b> background (side); <b>sin m&aacute;s &#126; ni espacio</b> without a moment of grace</p>
+
+<p><b>ternura</b> <i>f.</i> tenderness</p>
+
+<p><b>terrible</b> terrible</p>
+
+<p><b>terror</b> <i>m.</i> terror</p>
+
+<p><b>tesoro</b> <i>m.</i> treasure, treasury</p>
+
+<p><b>testigo</b> <i>m.</i> witness</p>
+
+<p><b>testimonio</b> <i>m.</i> testimony; <b>falso &#126; </b> false accusation</p>
+
+<p><b>ti</b> you</p>
+
+<p><b>tiempo</b> <i>m.</i> time; <b>a &#126; </b> on time, at the right time; <b>a &#126; de</b> while, as; <b>al &#126; que</b> at the same time as; <b>a su &#126; </b> at the proper time; <b>alg&uacute;n &#126; </b> some day, once; <b>en otro &#126; </b> once, formerly</p>
+
+<p><b>tierra</b> <i>f.</i> earth, world, ground</p>
+
+<p><b>timidez</b> <i>f.</i> timidity</p>
+
+<p><b>tinieblas</b> <i>f.</i> total darkness; Tenebr&aelig; (morning prayers of the
+last three days of Holy Week; these prayers are recited not on the mornings
+to which they belong, but on the evenings of the preceding days)</p>
+<p><b>tinta</b> <i>f.</i> ink, tint, color</p>
+
+<p><b>tirano,&nbsp;-a</b> tyrannical</p>
+
+<p><b>tirano</b> <i>m.</i> tyrant</p>
+
+<p><b>tirar</b> throw, fling, hurl; fire (a gun)</p>
+
+<p><b>tiro</b> <i>m.</i> shot</p>
+
+<p><b>tocar</b> touch, belong to, behoove, be a duty, find out; play (of musical instrument); <b>el desenga&ntilde;o toca</b> is discovering her mistake; <b>bien toc&aacute;is vuestros registros</b> you pull your stops well, you play
+your cards well</p>
+
+<p><b>todo,&nbsp;-a</b> all, whole, every, everything; <b>con todo</b> nevertheless; <b>del todo</b> entirely, completely; <b>toda una Infanta de Espa&ntilde;a</b> no less a personage than an infanta of
+Spain</p>
+
+<p><b>Toledo</b> <i>m. or f.</i> Toledo, <i>see note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>tomar</b> take; <b>&#126; m&aacute;s cuerpo</b> increase</p>
+
+<p><b>tono</b> <i>m.</i> tone</p>
+
+<p><b>tonto,&nbsp;-a</b> foolish</p>
+
+<p><b>tonto</b> <i>m.</i> fool</p>
+
+<p><b>torbellino</b> <i>m.</i> whirlwind</p>
+
+<p><b>tormenta</b> <i>f.</i> storm</p>
+
+<p><b>tormento</b> <i>m.</i> torment, torture, anguish</p>
+
+<p><b>tornar</b> return</p>
+
+<p><b>torno</b> <i>m.</i> turn; <b>en &#126; </b> round, about</p>
+
+<p><b>torpe</b> infamous; dull, rude, clumsy</p>
+
+<p><b>torpeza</b> <i>f.</i> clumsiness, stupidity</p>
+
+<p><b>traer</b> <i>irreg.</i> bring, draw, carry</p>
+
+<p><b>tragar</b> swallow</p>
+
+<p><b>tragedia</b> <i>f.</i> tragedy</p>
+
+<p><b>traici&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> treachery; <b>a &#126; </b> treacherously</p>
+
+<p><b>traidor</b> <i>m.</i> traitor</p>
+
+<p><b>traje</b> <i>m.</i> clothes, suit</p>
+
+<p><b>trama</b> <i>f.</i> deceit, plot, machination</p>
+
+<p><b>tramar</b> weave, plot</p>
+
+<p><b>trance</b> <i>m.</i> peril, extremity</p>
+
+<p><b>tranquilo,&nbsp;-a</b> tranquil, quiet</p>
+
+<p><b>tras (de)</b> after, behind</p>
+
+<p><b>trastornar</b> upset, disorder, confuse</p>
+
+<p><b>tratar</b> treat, handle; <b>&#126; de</b> try to</p>
+
+<p><b>trazar</b> plan, arrange; plot</p>
+
+<p><b>treinta</b> thirty</p>
+
+<p><b>tr&eacute;mulo,&nbsp;-a</b> tremulous, trembling</p>
+
+<p><b>tres</b> three</p>
+
+<p><b>trescientos,&nbsp;-as</b> three hundred</p>
+
+<p><b>triaca</b> <i>f.</i> antidote</p>
+
+<p><b>tributo</b> <i>m.</i> tribute</p>
+
+<p><b>triste</b> sad, gloomy, dejected</p>
+
+<p><b>tristeza</b> <i>f.</i> sadness, sorrow, affliction</p>
+
+<p><b>triunfante</b> triumphant</p>
+
+<p><b>triunfar</b> triumph; <b>&#126; de</b> triumph over</p>
+
+<p><b>triunfo</b> <i>m.</i> triumph; <b>la palma del &#126; </b> the palm of victory</p>
+
+<p><b>trocar</b> <i>irreg.</i> exchange</p>
+
+<p><b>trocito</b> <i>m.</i> (<i>dim. of</i> <b>trozo</b>) small fragment, bit</p>
+
+<p><b>tronco</b> <i>m.</i> trunk (of tree etc.)</p>
+
+<p><b>trono</b> <i>m.</i> throne</p>
+
+<p><b>tropa</b> <i>f.</i> troops</p>
+
+<p><b>tropezar</b> <i>irreg.</i> stumble</p>
+
+<p><b>trueno</b> <i>m.</i>. thunderclap, thunder; <b>noche de &#126; s</b> dark and threatening night</p>
+
+<p><b>trueque</b> <i>m.</i> exchange</p>
+
+<p><b>tu</b> your, thy</p>
+
+<p><b>t&uacute;</b> you, thou</p>
+
+<p><b>tumba</b> <i>f.</i> tomb, grave</p>
+
+<p><b>turbaci&oacute;n</b> <i>f.</i> perturbation, confusion</p>
+
+<p><b>turbado,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>turbar</b>) perturbed, confused</p>
+
+<p><b>turbar</b> disturb, trouble, alarm</p>
+
+<p><b>tuyo,&nbsp;-a</b> your, thy; <b>el tuyo, la tuya</b> yours, thine <b>u</b> or</p>
+
+<p><b>ufano,&nbsp;-a</b> proud; cheerful, content</p>
+
+<p><b>ujier</b> <i>m.</i> usher, doorkeeper</p>
+
+<p><b>&uacute;ltimo,&nbsp;-a</b> last</p>
+
+<p><b>ultraje</b> <i>m.</i> outrage, insult</p>
+
+<p><b>umbral</b> <i>m.</i> threshold</p>
+
+<p><b>un</b> <i>see</i> <b>uno</b></p>
+
+<p><b>&uacute;nico,&nbsp;-a</b> only, sole, unique</p>
+
+<p><b>unido,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. of</i> <b>unir</b>) united</p>
+
+<p><b>unir</b> unite, join, connect</p>
+
+<p><b>uno,&nbsp;-a</b> one; <i>pl.</i> some; <b>unas... otras</b> some... others</p>
+
+<p><b>un(o),&nbsp;-a</b> a, an</p>
+
+<p><b>Ur&iacute;as</b> Uriah, <i>see note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>uso</b> <i>m.</i> use <b>vacilar</b> vacillate, waver, reel, hesitate</p>
+
+<p><b>vago,&nbsp;-a</b> vague</p>
+
+<p><b>valedor</b> <i>m.</i> protector, defender</p>
+
+<p><b>valer</b> <i>irreg.</i> be of value, be worth</p>
+
+<p><b>val&iacute;a</b> <i>f.</i> credit, price, influence</p>
+
+<p><b>valor</b> <i>m.</i> valor, courage, value</p>
+
+<p><b>vano,&nbsp;-a</b> vain, in vain, fruitless</p>
+
+<p><b>vario,&nbsp;-a</b> various, several</p>
+
+<p><b>var&oacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> male, man</p>
+
+<p><b>varonil</b> manly, spirited, courageous</p>
+
+<p><b>vasallaje</b> <i>m.</i> vassalage, servitude, homage</p>
+
+<p><b>vasallo</b> <i>m.</i> vassal, subject</p>
+
+<p><b>vehemencia</b> <i>f.</i> vehemence</p>
+
+<p><b>veinticinco</b> twenty-five</p>
+
+<p><b>velar</b> watch, be vigilant, keep vigil; <b>&#126; por</b> watch over</p>
+
+<p><b>velo</b> <i>m.</i> veil</p>
+
+<p><b>vena</b> <i>f.</i> vein</p>
+
+<p><b>ven&aacute;tico,&nbsp;-a</b> erratic</p>
+
+<p><b>vencer</b> conquer, win</p>
+
+<p><b>vender</b> sell</p>
+
+<p><b>veneno</b> <i>m.</i> poison</p>
+
+<p><b>venganza</b> <i>f.</i> revenge</p>
+
+<p><b>vengativo,&nbsp;-a</b> revengeful, vindictive</p>
+
+<p><b>venida</b> <i>f.</i> coming, arrival</p>
+
+<p><b>venidero,&nbsp;-a</b> future</p>
+
+<p><b>venir</b> <i>irreg.</i> come, occur; be (<b>estar</b>)</p>
+
+<p><b>ventaja</b> <i>f.</i> advantage</p>
+
+<p><b>ventura</b> <i>f.</i> chance, fortune, happiness; <b>por &#126; </b> by chance, perchance</p>
+
+<p><b>venturoso,&nbsp;-a</b> happy, fortunate</p>
+
+<p><b>ver</b> <i>irreg.</i> see; <b>&#126; se</b> be; <b>ved</b> remember, bear in mind, see; <b>a &#126; </b> let's see</p>
+
+<p><b>verdad</b> <i>f.</i> truth; <b>es &#126; </b> it is true, that is so; <b>a la &#126; </b> truly, to tell the truth</p>
+
+<p><b>verdadero,&nbsp;-a</b> true</p>
+
+<p><b>verde</b> green</p>
+
+<p><b>verdugo</b> <i>m.</i> executioner</p>
+
+<p><b>verso</b> <i>m.</i> verse;
+<i>pl.</i> lines, poems</p>
+
+<p><b>verter</b> <i>irreg.</i> shed</p>
+
+<p><b>vez</b> <i>f.</i> time, turn; <b>otra &#126; </b> again; <b>tal &#126; </b> perhaps; <b>a su &#126; </b> in his turn; <b>a veces</b> at times</p>
+
+<p><b>viaje</b> <i>m.</i> journey</p>
+
+<p><b>viceversa</b> vice versa</p>
+
+<p><b>viceversa</b> <i>m.</i> contrast</p>
+
+<p><b>vicio</b> <i>m.</i> vice</p>
+
+<p><b>v&iacute;ctima</b> <i>f.</i> victim</p>
+
+<p><b>victoria</b> <i>f.</i> victory</p>
+
+<p><b>vida</b> <i>f.</i> life; <b>en mi &#126; </b> never in my life, never; <b>por &#126; </b> by Jove</p>
+
+<p><b>viento</b> <i>m.</i> wind</p>
+
+<p><b>vil</b> vile, base</p>
+
+<p><b>villa</b> <i>f.</i> town, country estate</p>
+
+<p><b>Villamediana</b> <i>proper name</i> (<i>cf. Hist. Introd.</i>)</p>
+
+<p><b>Villaviciosa</b> <i>f.</i> <i>cf. note</i></p>
+
+<p><b>vi&ntilde;a</b> <i>f.</i> vineyard</p>
+
+<p><b>violencia</b> <i>f.</i> violence, force, intensity; <b>con &#126; </b> forcing the words</p>
+
+<p><b>violento,&nbsp;-a</b> violent, strained</p>
+
+<p><b>Virgen</b> <i>f.</i> the Virgin</p>
+
+<p><b>virreina</b> <i>f.</i> vicereine</p>
+
+<p><b>virtud</b> <i>f.</i> virtue, chastity</p>
+
+<p><b>visible</b> visible</p>
+
+<p><b>vista</b> <i>f.</i> sight, gaze; <b>corto de &#126; </b> near-sighted</p>
+
+<p><b>visto,&nbsp;-a</b> (<i>pp. irreg. of</i> <b>ver</b>) seen; <b>por lo visto</b> apparently</p>
+
+<p><b>viuda</b> <i>f.</i> widow</p>
+
+<p><b>viudez</b> <i>f.</i> widowhood, widowerhood</p>
+
+<p><b>viudo</b> <i>m.</i> widower</p>
+
+<p><b>viveza</b> <i>f.</i> vivacity, spirit</p>
+
+<p><b>vivir</b> to live; <b>vive Dios</b> by heaven; <b>vivan nuestros reyes</b> long live our king and queen</p>
+
+<p><b>vivo,&nbsp;-a</b> living, alive, lively, keen</p>
+
+<p><b>volcar</b> <i>irreg.</i> overturn, upset</p>
+
+<p><b>voluntad</b> <i>f.</i> will, purpose</p>
+
+<p><b>volver</b> <i>irreg.</i> turn, return, restore; <b>&#126; se</b> turn around, return; <b>&#126; a...</b> (<i>infin.</i>) to... again; <b>&#126; sobre s&iacute;</b> come to one's senses, collect one's self</p>
+
+<p><b>vos</b> you</p>
+
+<p><b>vosotros,&nbsp;-as</b> you</p>
+
+<p><b>votar</b> vow, vote, swear; <b>voto a</b> I swear by; <b>voto a veinticinco santos</b> I vow by all the saints</p>
+
+<p><b>voto</b> <i>m.</i> vow</p>
+
+<p><b>voz</b> <i>f.</i> voice; rumor, report; <b>en &#126; alta</b> aloud; <b>en &#126; baja</b> in an undertone</p>
+
+<p><b>vuecencia</b> your excellency</p>
+
+<p><b>vuelta</b> <i>f.</i> return</p>
+
+<p><b>vuesa</b> <i>archaic for</i> <b>vuestra</b></p>
+
+<p><b>vuestro,&nbsp;-a</b> your; <b>el vuestro, la vuestra,</b> yours <b>Wiranzan</b> <i>m.</i> Besan&ccedil;on, <i>cf. note</i> <b>y</b> and</p>
+
+<p><b>ya</b> already, now, by now, by this time; <b>&#126; que</b> now that, since</p>
+
+<p><b>yacer</b> <i>irreg.</i> lie</p>
+
+<p><b>yo</b> I</p>
+
+<p><b>yugo</b> <i>m.</i> yoke <b>zagu&aacute;n</b> <i>m.</i> entrance, vestibule</p>
+
+<p><b>zozobra</b> <i>f.</i> anxiety, care, unrest</p>
+
+<p><b>zumb&oacute;n,&nbsp;-a</b> waggish, jesting</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="footnotes"><a name="FOOTNOTES" id="FOOTNOTES"></a><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> <i>Imparcial de Madrid</i>, December 3, 1901.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Notices of the appearance of this paper and of Sanz's
+resignation will be found in <i>La Gu&iacute;a</i> of January 3 and 4, 1849.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> The original manuscript of this play is preserved in the
+Biblioteca Nacional at Madrid. At the end of Act I appears the date
+Junio 13, 1854. At the end of the second Julio 5, 1854, and on the last
+sheet Setiembre 25, 1854.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> All the papers relating to Sanz's diplomatic career are
+preserved in the Archivo del Ministerio del Estado. They were collected
+at the instance of his "widow," who desired that she be accorded a
+pension in keeping with the dignity of the posts held by her
+distinguished husband. The papers are filed under <i>Personal Espa&ntilde;ol,
+Letra S, A&ntilde;o 1853. N&uacute;mero 159. Expediente relativo a Sanz, don Eulogio
+Florentino</i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> Pedro is Don Pedro Calvo Asensio, the editor-in-chief of
+<i>La Iberia</i>, in which the poem first appeared. It was later republished
+in 1881 in the "Almanaque de <i>La Iberia</i>."</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> Cf. <i>La Iberia</i>, May 22, 1857.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> "Obras En Verso y Prosa de Don Francisco Zea." Madrid, pp.
+552, 556.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> Philip II had married his daughter, the infanta Catalina,
+to Charles Emmanuel of Savoy.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> <i>Avisos de 11 de Diciembre de 1640.</i></p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> No less a person than the Attorney General wrote to Osuna
+of a prominent person at court, "Your Excellency may be quite sure of M.
+He wants a carpet; send him two, and pray God that some one else does
+not give him three."</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11"><span class="label">[11]</span></a> In the play there is a trifling anachronism according to
+which we are to believe that in 1643 Quevedo had not yet received this
+honor.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12"><span class="label">[12]</span></a> The first volume of Fern&aacute;ndez-Guerra's splendid edition
+appeared in 1852.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13"><span class="label">[13]</span></a> I speak especially of Don Juan Perez de Guzman and Don
+Julio Nombela, both of whom have been kind enough to give me all the
+data at their disposal.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14"><span class="label">[14]</span></a> <i>Sem. Erud.</i>, III, pp. 1-62.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_15_15" id="Footnote_15_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_15_15"><span class="label">[15]</span></a> Ibid., XV, pp. 215-245.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_16_16" id="Footnote_16_16"></a><a href="#FNanchor_16_16"><span class="label">[16]</span></a> It should be noted here that Quevedo's journey to Lisbon
+to bring back the proofs of Margarita's story is an ingenious fiction
+concocted by Sanz. In reality Quevedo was a prisoner in San Marcos de
+Le&oacute;n.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_17_17" id="Footnote_17_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_17_17"><span class="label">[17]</span></a> V de Junio de 1639; <i>Sem. Erud.</i>, XXXI, p. 25.</p></div>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
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