At least, Sancho, I want, because it is necessary, I say I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add, and I assure you that you will not recount as many as I intend to perform.” “For the love of God, Señor, don’t let me see your grace naked, for that will make me feel so bad I won’t be able to stop crying,

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

"Ah, but Senor!" exclaimed the niece, "your Grace should send them to be burned along with the rest; for I shouldn't wonder at all if my uncle, after he has been cured off this chivalry sickness, reading one of these books, should take it into his head to become a shepherd and go wandering through the woods and meadows singing and piping, or, what is worse, become a poet, which they say is an incurable disease and one that is very catching."

El sosiego, el lugar apacible, la amenidad de los campos, la serenidad de los cielos, el murmurar de las fuentes, la quietud del espíritu son grande parte para que las musas más estériles se muestren fecundas y ofrezcan partos al mundo que le colmen de maravilla y de contento.

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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

But to give him anything to drink was impossible, or would have been so had not the landlord bored a reed, and putting one end in his mouth poured the wine into him through the other; all which he bore with patience rather than sever the ribbons of his helmet.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art

— De donde nace que, cuando vemos alguna persona bien aderezada, y con ricos vestidos compuesta, y con pompa de criados, parece que por fuerza nos mueve y convida a que la tengamos respeto, puesto que la memoria en aquel instante nos represente alguna bajeza en que vimos a la tal persona; la cual inominia, ahora sea de pobreza o de linaje, como ya pasó, no es, y sólo es lo que vemos presente. Y si éste a quien la fortuna sacó del borrador de su bajeza (que por estas mesmas razones lo dijo el padre) a la alteza de su prosperidad, fuere bien criado, liberal y cortés con todos, y no se pusiere en cuentos con aquellos que por antigüedad son nobles, ten por cierto, Teresa, que no habrá quien se acuerde de lo que fue, sino que reverencien lo que es, si no fueren los invidiosos, de quien ninguna próspera fortuna está segura.