Note 642 — Chapter XXIII
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Ven, muerte, tan escondida, Que no te sienta venir, Porque el placer del morir No me buelva á dar la vida. Jorn. III.
See, also, Calderon’s “Manos Blancas no ofenden,” Jorn. II., where he has it again; and Cancionero General, 1573, f. 185. Lope de Vega made a gloss on it, (Obras, Tom. XIII. p. 256), and Cervantes repeats it (Don Quixote, Parte II. c. 38);—so much was it admired.