Harlan: Moreto’s “El desden” 
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CHAPTER XVII 
SIN HONRA NO HAY AMISTAD, Francisco de Rojas 
Zorrilla 
Sin honra no hay amistad, by Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla 
(1607-1648) , 156 is found in the Segunda Parte of his works, 
Madrid, 1645; 1680. The play is also listed in the Parte 
cuarenta y una de comedias de varios autores, Valencia, sin 
fecha. 157 
In connection with his discussion of this play, Schaeffer 158 
says: 
Da das Stuck schon 1640 gedruckt ist, so darf angenommen werden, 
dass es Moreto’s El desden con el desden vorausging. 
He only indirectly infers that it may have been a model for 
Moreto. However, Sin honra no hay amistad is, according to 
Barrera, quoted above, not in the Primer a Parte, the date of 
which is 1640, but in the Segunda . This point is substantiated 
by Don Ramon de Mesonero Romanos. 159 It is still possible, 
however, appearing as late as 1645, that Moreto may have seen 
it and used it. 
This play 160 opens with Melchor, a soldier, and Antonio, a 
student, who are great friends and live together, complaining 
about their misfortune in love, after Melchor has reminded 
Antonio that he has the murder of his father to avenge and 
does not know the slayer, and Antonio has told us that he 
must avenge the death of his mother which was caused by the 
seduction of her daughter, Ines, and he does not know the 
seducer, nor where his sister is. They are each about to re- 
veal the name of the lady they adore when Sabanon, their 
servant, who is a gracioso estudiante, comes to tell Antonio 
that he has found his sister, at the same time that Agueda tells 
Melchor that she has arranged for him to see her mistress, 
Doha Juana, with whom he is in love. He leaves to go to 
her and Antonio to follow Sabanon to avenge his family’s dis- 
grace. Bernardo, brother of Juana, is the one who seduced 
Ines, who loves him, while he has tired of her. Juana has no 
156 Fitzmaurice-Kelly, op. eit., p. 272. 
157 Barrera, op. cit., pp. 341-342. 
158 op. cit., Vol. II, p. 126. 
159 Biblioteca de autores espwnoles, Vol. LIV, Madrid, 1866, p. 9. 
160 Based on the text of the Biblioteca de autores espanoles, Vol. LIV, Madrid, 1866, 
pp. 295-318. 
