BY
Sir CLEMENTS MARKHAM, K.C.B.
D.Sc. (Camb.)
WITH A NOTICE OF THE MENDOZA FAMILY,
A SHORT LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, DON DIEGO
HURTADO DE MENDOZA, A NOTICE OF
THE WORK, AND SOME REMARKS ON THE
CHARACTER OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES
LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1908
ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTORY | |
| THE FAMILY OF MENDOZA | |
| PAGE | |
| Descent of the author of Lazarillo de Tormes | [xv] |
| A Mendoza saved the life of King Juan I. of Castille | [xvi] |
| The poet Marquis of Santillana | [xvii] |
| Children of the Marquis | [xviii] |
| Counts of Tendilla | [xix] |
| Antiquity of the family | [xxi] |
| DON DIEGO HURTADO DE MENDOZA, AUTHOR OF “LAZARILLO DE TORMES” | |
| Born in the Alhambra | [xxiii] |
| At Salamanca | [xxiv] |
| Services in Italy | [xxiv] |
| Library | [xxiv] |
| The “Guerra de Granada” | [xxv] |
| Last days | [xxv] |
| Death | [xxv] |
| THE BOOK, “LAZARILLO DE TORMES” | |
| Ticknor’s opinion | [xxvii] |
| First edition | [xxvii] |
| Value of copies | [xxviii] |
| Spurious second parts | [xxviii] |
| English translations | [xxix] |
| NOTES ON THE CHARACTER OF LAZARO | |
| His age coincides with the Author’s | [xxxi] |
| Two destinies | [xxxii] |
| Baneful surroundings as a child | [xxxiii] |
| Good stories well told | [xxxiii] |
| Higher qualities | [xxxv] |
| Development of character | [xxxv] |
| Merits of the work | [xxxvi] |
| PROLOGUE | |
| Lazaro’s reason for relating all the circumstances of his life | [1] |
| Motives not to gain money but to win fame | [2] |
| Success of the poor should be a lesson to the rich | [3] |
| I | |
| LAZARO RELATES THE WAY OF HIS BIRTH AND TELLS WHOSE SON HE IS | |
| Parentage of Lazaro | [4] |
| Reason of his surname | [4] |
| Death of father. Mother in service | [6] |
| Stepfather. Little brown brother | [6] |
| Living on stolen goods | [7] |
| Helps at the inn | [8] |
| FIRST MASTER | |
| HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A BLIND MAN | |
| Service with the blind man | [11] |
| Farewell to his mother | [11] |
| Cruel trick of the blind man | [12] |
| Sagacity of the blind man | [15] |
| The blind man’s resources and avarice | [16] |
| Inside of the knapsack | [17] |
| Contrivance with half blancas | [17] |
| Ways of getting at the wine | [18] |
| Blind man’s cruel revenge | [19] |
| Coolness between them | [20] |
| Lazaro beaten. Blind man in the mud | [21] |
| Sharing a bunch of grapes | [22] |
| Trouble about the sausage | [25] |
| Lazaro’s revenge | [28] |
| SECOND MASTER | |
| HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A CLERGYMAN, AND OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO HIM | |
| Out of the frying-pan into the fire | [31] |
| Nothing to eat in the house | [31] |
| Lazaro sinking into the silent tomb | [32] |
| Stinginess of the clergyman | [33] |
| Lazaro longs for the funeral feasts | [33] |
| An angel in form of a locksmith | [35] |
| Lazaro happy for a time | [35] |
| The priest counts the loaves | [36] |
| It was the rats | [37] |
| Rat-hole boarded up | [38] |
| Rat-hole reappears | [41] |
| Lazaro undid the repairs at night | [41] |
| Rat-trap adds cheese to Lazaro’s meal | [42] |
| It must be a snake | [42] |
| The key turns traitor | [43] |
| Lazaro half killed, and shown the door | [44] |
| THIRD MASTER | |
| HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A GENTLEMAN, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM | |
| Lazaro reaches Toledo and seeks for a master | [47] |
| He enters the service of an esquire | [48] |
| Taken to the esquire’s house | [51] |
| Nothing to eat in the house | [51] |
| Trouble ahead about food | [52] |
| Shares his bread with his master | [53] |
| Philosophical views of starvation | [55] |
| A wretched night | [55] |
| The esquire’s outward appearance | [56] |
| Secrets under the esquire’s cloak | [59] |
| Lazaro goes for water. What he sees | [60] |
| Lazaro waits for his master and food | [61] |
| Successful begging expedition | [61] |
| What touches the esquire’s honour | [65] |
| The esquire longs to share with Lazaro | [65] |
| Lazaro’s kindness and tact | [66] |
| Provides a supper for his master | [67] |
| Examines the esquire’s clothes | [68] |
| Kindly feeling for his master | [68] |
| Begging prohibited | [69] |
| Kept alive by shop-girls | [69] |
| Misery and starvation | [70] |
| The esquire bemoans his fate | [70] |
| Lazaro’s terror at the dead body coming | [71] |
| Lazaro bars the door | [72] |
| Door unbarred | [73] |
| The esquire’s story | [73] |
| His ideas of honour | [74] |
| The esquire disappears when asked for the rent | [77] |
| Creditors search the house | [78] |
| Lazaro taken into custody | [81] |
| Lazaro deserted by his master | [82] |
| FOURTH MASTER | |
| HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A FRIAR OF THE ORDER OF MERCY, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM | |
| The fourth master does not suit | [83] |
| FIFTH MASTER | |
| HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A SELLER OF PAPAL INDULGENCES | |
| The seller of Indulgences curries favour with the parochial clergy | [84] |
| Subtle contrivances | [85] |
| A sham quarrel | [85] |
| The sermon begun | [87] |
| Interruption | [87] |
| Hypocritical prayer | [88] |
| Sham miracle | [89] |
| The people taken in | [90] |
| The farce continued | [91] |
| Lazaro behind the scenes | [92] |
| SIXTH MASTER | |
| HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A CHAPLAIN, AND HOW HE PROSPERED | |
| Lazaro becomes a water-carrier | [95] |
| Is able to wear good clothes | [96] |
| SEVENTH MASTER | |
| HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A CONSTABLE, AND WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS | |
| Lazaro’s prosperity continues | [97] |
| Gets a Government appointment | [97] |
| The archpriest of St. Saviour’s | [98] |
| Lazaro married | [98] |
| Evil tongues | [99] |
| A good understanding | [100] |
| Conclusion | [103] |