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iHideputa, bellacon! 
i Como pinto por la senda 
La camisa de su prenda! . . . 
iDesos sois? No mas conmigo. 
A buen tiempo os declarais, 
Pues al de Parma me dais 
Por capital enemigo. 
i Andais enganar mujeres 
De noche por los jardines! . . . 
i Oh IJlises astuto! 
Vayase con Porcia Bruto. 
iQue es lo que quiere a ml? 140 
When Fabio remarks on her excited state, she says : 
6 Que quereis? No puedo mas 
En viendo traidor estilo. 
The only time that Diana of El desden con el desden gives 
vent to extreme jealousy is after Carlos has told her of his 
love for Cintia and extols her charms, to which Diana replies 
that she sees no such charms in Cintia and goes so far as to 
tell him that he has bad taste* In the above words of Diana 
in the Lope play, it is a question whether she is more impelled 
by her righteous sense of outrage at the professed actions of 
Alejandro, whom she does not take to be himself, but a new- 
comer, Otavio — just as he represents himself — or whether it 
is really jealousy that moves her. Inasmuch as she really is 
in love with Alejandro and does not take him for himself, any 
jealousy she might feel toward an unknown woman could not 
be very great. The idea gained from her words is, rather, 
that she is disgusted at Alejandro’s actions, and her sense 
of justice makes her sound a warning to women against such 
deceivers. Her real jealousy is admitted afterwards when she 
sees Teodora with him while she is trying to enlist his aid on 
her side. This is the outcome, however, of Diana’s distrust, 
in general, of Teodora. She would resent seeing the latter 
with any man, after all that Teodora has told her about men, 
and then not living up to what she preaches. This jealousy, 
then, is not because of Alejandro’s story, and La boba para 
los otros y discreta para si cannot be said to have had any in- 
fluence on El desden con el desden . 
140 La boba, Act II, scene vi. 
