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Poiilla’s more effective, tho drastic, methods of warning Carlos 
that he is about to be caught in the birdlime when he holds the 
dagger close to Carlos’ face to keep him from turning to 
look at Diana. He assumes responsibility for the success of 
his master’s undertaking when he makes up the story of the 
princess and her engagement to Cesar. He is, however, in 
spite of these resemblances to Polilla, not the clever psychol- 
ogist that Polilla is. 
In Para veneer a amor, querer vencerle we find a young 
lady scornful toward a man’s love which she has come to take 
for granted and which she places lower than she does her am- 
bition to rule. This latter out of the way, her jealousy, aroused 
for the first time, brings her to love Cesar and to admit, in 
her own case, as he does in his, that the will not to love must 
be present in order not to love, and in both cases this will is 
lacking and Love wins out. This is not what takes place in 
El desden con el desden, where a woman, who at first does not 
consider love at all, is made to fall in love with the man who, 
tho in love with her, “goes her one better” at every turn and 
makes her, so to speak, “eat her very words” in a battle of 
desden with desden. So that, in spite of a few points of con- 
tact, the two plays have very little in common, that little being 
Cesar’s changing his tactics from those of the ardent lover he 
has always been to those of scorn and rudeness. The general 
plans of the two plays are entirely distinct. It may be noted 
that both plays first appeared in 1654. 
