Note 12 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
As another copy of this play can be found, I suppose, only by some rare accident, I give the original of the passage in the text, with its original pointing. It is the opening of the first scene:—
Hermitaño. La vida peñosa; que nos los mortales En aqueste mundo; terreno passamos Si con buen sentido; la consideramos Fallar la hemos; lleno de muy duros males De tantos tormentos; tan grandes y tales Que aver de contallos; es cuento infinita Y allende de aquesto; tan presto es marchita Como la rosa; qu’ esta en los rosales.
“Una Farça a Manera de Tragedia,” in prose and partly pastoral, was printed at Valencia, anonymously, in 1537, and seems to have resembled this one in some particulars. It is mentioned in Aribau, “Biblioteca de Autores Españoles,” 1846, Tom. II. p. 193, note.