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ance in Mendo, who reminds ns of Polilla by using a few Latin 
phrases and acting the part of the doctor to decide whether 
Juan is in love, and in Trebacio, but not at all in the same 
sense that Polilla helps Carlos. Both Celia and Diana have to 
save the situation in the end. Lisarda and Fernando have 
no counterparts in El desden con el desden, Lisarda, scorn- 
ful toward Fernando's love, falls in love with Juan, but is 
perfectly willing in the end to marry Fernando. 
The point of the play is shown in the title “De cosario a 
cosario”, which is amplified by Don Juan when he says, after 
Celia has promised to be his, “con esto, Celia, veras que de 
cosario a cosario solo se ahorra ". 110 By “esto" he refers to 
the fact that he accepts her heart but not her money, the idea 
being much the same as we mean by “honor among thieves", 
found in the proverb “de cosario a cosario no se pierden sino 
los barriles", which is explained as one which “ensena que 
los de una misma clase no se suelen hacer daho ". * 111 Just as 
Celia and Juan belong to the “misma clase", and the former 
is conquered when she would conquer, Diana and Carlos are 
matched, with the same result to Diana. In this consists the 
similarity of the two plays, altho the characters themselves are 
not alike. 
110 De cosario. Act III, scene xv. 
111 Diccionario enciclopedico de la lengwa castellana, compuesto por Elias Zerolo, 
Miguel de Toro y Gomez, Emiliano Isaza. Vol. I, Nueva edicion, Paris. 
