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Que no jure falso mas 
Cuando sus pasiones mienta; 
Ya os he dicho la verdad, 
Y agora, amos mios, queda, 
Que os dejeis curar, aunque 
Mas la medicina os duela, 
Para que vuestra venganza 
A sus ardides suceda, 
Mi diligencia a su resistencia; 
Y pues con la ciencia mia 
Y tambien con la paz vuestra 
Se ha de curar este rnal, 
No hay sino tener paciencia. 
More like Hernando, in Los milagros del desprecio of Lope, 
Sabanon takes the burden of the whole situation on himself 
and asks Melchor and Antonio to obey him and ask no ques- 
tions. In this he is not like Polilla, who works with Carlos 
and not for him as Sabanon does for Melchor. All the ideas 
for saving the situation and helping his masters are Sabanon’s, 
until the end when Antonio suggests the solution. The whole 
credit of bringing Juana to terms is due Sabanon. He under- 
stands human nature, and feminine nature well enough to do 
this. He and Polilla belong to the same general class, but just 
as Juana does not go thru the entire evolution that Diana does, 
Sabanon’s methods are less complicated, more everyday-like 
than those used by Polilla and Carlos. 
Melchor, as has been suggested, resembles Carlos only in 
general, in being the man who is successful in winning Juana. 
He wins her, however, thru no plan nor effort of his own, but 
by doing exactly what Sabanon coaches him to do, which 
causes Juana to be sufficiently jealous of him to accept him 
when urged by Antonio. Only, then, in the sense that he loves 
Juana and wins her in the end, has Melchor anything in com- 
mon with Carlos. 
Ines, in not agreeing with Juana that men are deceitful and 
unworthy of being loved, has something in common with Cintia 
in El desden con el desden. Otherwise, they do not play at all 
the same part. Also only in that he loves the same person 
whom Melchor does, is Antonio the counterpart of Bearne. 
The primary idea of this play by Rojas Zorrilla is to show 
the combination of honra and amistad in the relations of An- 
tonio and Melchor, and the main incident in these relations is 
their being in love with the same woman. It is, then, this second- 
