Se sana que una palabra.

Comedias, 1760. Tom. II. p. 352.

[650] “Antes que todo es mi Dama.”

[651] “La Dama Duende,” Comedias, Tom. III.

[652]

Oy el bautismo celebra

Del primero Balthasar.

Jorn. I.

[653] I should think he refers to it eight times, perhaps more, in the course of his plays: e. g. in “Mañanas de Avril y Mayo”; “Agradecer y no Amar”; “El Joseph de las Mugeres,” etc. I notice it, because he rarely alludes to his own works, and never, I think, in the way he does to this one. The Dama Duende is well known in the French “Répertoire” as the “Esprit Follet” of Hauteroche.

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