Harlan: Moreto’s “El desden” 
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CHAPTER XV 
ENCONTRARONSE DOS ARROYUELOS, Juan Velez de Guevara 
Encontr arouse dos arroyuelos, by Juan Velez de Guevara 
(1611-1675), son of Luis Velez de Guevara, 149 is found in the 
Comedias en colecciones y escritas con otros autores, Parte 23 , 
Madrid, 1665. It is sometimes called La boba y el Vizcaino . 15 ° 
In act one — the synopsis based on the text mentioned above 
— Don Felix, with his gracioso servant, Talego, arrives in 
Salamanca from Madrid in time to engage in a fiesta which 
is taking place celebrating the birth of a prince. He is to 
stay with Onofre, who is the suitor for the hand of Ortensia, 
daughter of Ordonez, whom Alexo, a very coarse Vizcayan, is 
visiting. Ortensia scorns all men and is interested in study, 
while her sister, Alfonsa, who is her opposite in every respect, 
falls upon the neck of every man she sees and thinks she is in 
love with him and he with her. Ortensia, with her servant 
Juana, appears at the fiesta , disguised. Felix, after a tight in 
the street, scales the garden wall of Ordonez’s house and ap- 
pears where Ortensia is reviling men, after reading some love 
notes from various suitors. Felix and Ortensia argue the 
point of “love at first sight”. 
In the second act, taking place on the next day, we find 
Ortensia with Juana, and Alfonsa with Luisa, her servant, 
walking in the Prado, paying no attention to each other. 
Felix and Talego appear and the former, in characteristic 
fashion, pays compliments to the first woman he meets, who 
happens to be Alfonsa, who assumes that he wants her to 
marry him. Ortensia, who is being likewise complimented by 
Alexo, who, however, makes it clear that he means nothing 
by it as he is to marry his cousin (herself) for her dowry, 
keeps track of the turn of the conversation between her sis- 
ter and Felix, and when she can stand it no longer asks Alexo 
to tell Felix to leave her sister alone. Felix resents this and 
is about to draw his sword when Ordonez comes up, recognizes 
Felix as the son of his friend, and invites him to his house 
that night. Here he gets into difficulties by meeting Alfonsa, 
149 Schaeffer, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 152. 
150 Barrera, op. cit., pp. 462-546. 
