And in another lamentation she utters these words: “Si la sperança de morir nom detingues, yom mataria.”[60]
[60] ... if the hope of dying did not deter me, I should kill myself. Ibid., chap. cccclxxv, col. 1.
In the analysis we have observed how Carmesina pleaded with Tirant not to permit his amorous nature to interfere with his martial spirit. In the English romance, Felice justifies her attitude towards Guy in the following manner:
And if y the had mi loue yiue
And wille it the whiles y liue
Sleuthe wolde the so oercome,
That thou woldest nomore armes doon,
Ne come in turnement nor in fighte.
So amorous thou wolde bee anone righte.[61]