Con soledad y llanto,

Y tu rompiendo el puro

Ayre, te vas al immortal seguro!

Los antes bien hadados,

Y los agora tristes y afligidos,

A tus pechos criados,

De tí desposeidos,

A dó convertirán ya sus sentidos?

Obras de Luis de Leon, Madrid, 1816, Tom. VI. p. 42.

[79] In 1837, D. José de Castro y Orozco produced on the stage at Madrid a drama, entitled “Fray Luis de Leon,” in which the hero, whose name it bears, is represented as renouncing the world and entering a cloister, in consequence of a disappointment in love. Diego de Mendoza is also one of the principal personages in the same drama, which is written in a pleasing style, and has some poetical merit, notwithstanding its unhappy subject and plot.