ESCENA SEXTA
*el día de los innumerables mártires de Zaragoza*: April 16, the feast-day of the eighteen martyrs condemned to death in Saragossa in the time of the emperor Diocletian.
*si usted podía ser dichosa*: note the imperfect indicative in an unreal condition.
*Sacedón*: watering-place in the province of Guadalajara, Spain.
*Nueva Holanda*: Australia.
*Isla de Francia*: Spanish form for the old French name of the island
Mauritius, to the east of Madagascar. It is now an English possession.
Pablo y Virginia: Paul and Virginia (cf. vocabulary under *Domingo*).