History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2)

Note 356 — SECOND SECTION. History of Spanish Poetry and Eloquence, from the Age of Cervantes and Lope de Vega to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century.

Thomasina Ross translation

A mother enters with her two starving children. She carries one at the breast, and the other whom she leads by the hand, thus addresses her:—

Hijo. Madre, por ventura habriar nos diese pan por esto? Madre. Pan, hijo, ni aun otra cosa Que semeje de comer! Hijo. Pues tengo de parecer De dura hambre rabiosa? Con poco pan que me deis, Madre, no os pediré mas. Madre. Hijo, qué penas me das! Hijo. Pues qué, madre, no quereis? &c.

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