Note 406 — Chapter XVII
Reading edition
The giant says to Adam, referring to the temptation:—
Yerros Adan por amores Dignos son de perdonar, etc.;
which is out of the beautiful and well-known old ballad of the “Conde Claros,” beginning “Pésame de vos, el Conde,” which has been already noticed, ante, Vol. I. p. 121. It must have been perfectly familiar to many persons in Lope’s audience, and how the allusion to it could have produced any other than an irreverent effect I know not.