They tell me the prince incurred the queen's grave rebuke for his attentions to the maiden." "And this morning I saw that fearful Father Tomas steal into the prince's tent.

I wish Don Juan well through the lecture.

The monk's advice is like the algarroba;--[The algarroba is a sort of leguminous plant common in Spain]--when it is laid up to dry it may be reasonably wholesome, but it is harsh and bitter enough when taken fresh." At this moment one of the subaltern officers rode up to the marquess, and whispered in his ear.
"Ha!" said Villena, "the Virgin be praised! Sir knights, booty is at hand.

Silence! close the ranks." With that, mounting a little eminence, and shading his eyes with his hand, the marquess surveyed the plain below; and, at some distance, he beheld a horde of Moorish peasants driving some cattle into a thick copse.

The word was hastily given, the troop dashed on, every voice was hushed, and the clatter of mail, and the sound of hoofs, alone broke the delicious silence of the noon-day landscape.
Ere they reached the copse, the peasants had disappeared within it.