Would you, Sir, see that you are not a man,—
Since all that ever made you one is gone,—
(The figure that remains availing but
To bear the empty name that marked you once),—
Go and proclaim aloud your loss, my friend,
And then inquire of your own memory
What has become of you, and where you are;
And you will learn, at once, that you are not
The man to whom I lately gave my heart.[501]
What, perhaps, is most remarkable about this drama is, that the unity of place is observed, and possibly the unity of time; a circumstance which shows that the freedom of the Spanish stage from such restraints was not yet universally acknowledged.