Servant.
Well, then, what are you, Sir,—a man or woman?
Just tell me that.
Juana.
A woman, to be sure.
Servant.
No more! enough! That word explains the whole;—
Ay, and if thirty worlds were going mad,
It would be reason good for all the uproar.
The chief characteristic of this play is its extremely ingenious and involved plot. Few foreigners, perhaps not one, ever comprehended all its intrigue on first reading it, or on first seeing it acted. Yet it has always been one of the most popular plays on the Spanish stage; and the commonest and most ignorant in the audiences of the great cities of Spain do not find its ingenuities and involutions otherwise than diverting.