Note 91 — BOOK I. FROM THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
Thomasina Ross translation
Mena, politely enough, solicits permission of Fortune to read her a lesson:
Dame licencia, mudable Fortuna, Porque yo blasme de ti lo que devo.
Then, in well turned antitheses, he allows her a sort of regularity which contradicts itself:—
Que tu firmeza es, no ser constante, Tu temperamento es destemplanza, Tu mas cierto orden es desordenanza, &c.