[[138-12]] vale por dos, 'is worth two.'
Á TODO HAY QUIEN GANE
Felipe Pérez y González, b. in Seville,—journalist, novelist and playwright,—writing at times under the pseudonym of Tello Téllez. Works: El libro malo, Tajos y reveses, El nuevo sistema tétrico, and many light comedies.
[[139]].—Á Todo Hay Quien Gane (lit., 'there is some one who will get the better of every one'), 'Every One Is Sometimes Worsted.'
Á todo hay quien gane has 8 syllables to the line:
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Juan, | que^es | pes | ca | dor | de | ca | ña, Se | pa | sa^el | dí | a | pes | can | do, Y | Pe | dro | lo^es | tá | mi | ran | do Con | u | na | son | ri | sa^ex | tra | ña. |
The line has one rhythmic stress. The rhyme-scheme is a, b, b, a, etc.
[[139-10]] ha de, 'must.'
EL PERAL
Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, b. 1806 in Madrid, of a German father and a Spanish mother, d. 1880,—a literary critic, and a romantic poet and dramatist. Works: Amantes de Teruel, La ley de raza, Vida por honra, Un sí y un no, Cuentos y fábulas, et al.