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Vive Dios, que no ha de hallar 
Afecto en mi Margarita 
De amor . 146 
which reminds us of Carlos’ determination to pretend unsus- 
ceptibility to Diana’s charms, and even to scorn them. In the 
garden scene of El desden con el desden Carlos gives Diana no 
satisfaction on the subject of her singing and explains his 
presence, saying : 
Un yerro ha sido 
que solo enmendarse puede 
con no hacer mas el delito . 147 
and then leaving. Cesar, after telling Margarita that it is 
true that he has resumed the suit for the rule of Ferrara, 
adds : 
Pues ya lo sabeis; 
Si otra cosa no quereis 
Quedad con Dios . 148 
Cesar’s method is much more blunt than Carlos’, shown by 
the two speeches just given. We cannot have the admiration 
for Cesar which is constantly Carlos’ when he says things such 
as these : 
Si es mi culpa el no pagar, 
De vos os podeis quejar; 
Que yo de vos lo aprendl. 
Y en fin, decidle, senora, 
Que no sois buen medio vos 
Para servirse de mi. (Act III, scene xv.) 
His rudeness has much the same effect on Margarita that 
Carlos’ desden has on Diana, but Carlos carries his out more 
subtly and is more dignified about it. He is never sure that 
his method is absolutely working — until the very end — even 
tho he has been told by Cintia and Polilla that Diana is madly 
in love with him. With which we compare Cesar’s words to 
the emperor on the subject of how his “forgetting” is progress- 
ing: 
Ya, senor, estoy mas convalecido. 
Apenas despreciada 
De mi se vio esa fiera, cuando airada 
146 p ara veneer, Act III, scene viii. 
147 El desden, Act II, scene ix. 
148 p ara veneer, Act III, scene ix. 
