Harlan: Moreto’s “El desden” 
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SI, Senor, y por azumbres, 
Porque haya bien que llorar; 
Que a estas ingratas, Senor, 
Perseguirlas, maltratarlas, 
Sacudirlas y dejarlas, 
Para que tengan amor . . . 
he says : 
Pues ve recetando de mi; 
Que yo soy el boticario. (Act II, scene x.) 
Moclin reminds us of Polilla when he uses the name of 
Matilde as a verb, meaning to sing songs in Matilde’s praise. 
In the third act, fourth scene, he says : 
A matildar un poquito; 
Que, ha que, con esta prision, 
No matildamos, un siglo. 
Polilla, in the third scene of the third act of El desden con 
el desden, after Diana has wished the festivities to end, she 
being entirely ignored in them, has the following to say : 
Si te enfada 
ver tu nombre en verso escrito, 
6 que han de hacer sino cintiar, 
laurear y fenisar, 
que dianar es deli to? 
When Moclin says, in the fourth scene of the third act: 
i Que dura empezo, y que blanda 
Ha acabado el exorcismo! 
Tieso que tieso, Senor; 
Haz que no se te da un higo; 
La veras como una breba. 
We are reminded of Polilla in the first scene of the first act 
when he argues with Carlos that the breva will become all the 
more ripe for having stones thrown at it, and that it will fall 
without fail. Moclin expresses his satisfaction with the way 
things are working out, by saying: 
Ya van las purgas obrando (Act II, scene 3.) 
and 
Alon, que pinta la uva. (Act II, scene 11.) 
This reminds us very much of Polilla when he says : 
Toma si purga, senor; 
no hay en la botica emplasto 
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