Unidad 69 · ESCENA VI.

ESCENA VI.

Pasillo, diminutive of paso, little passage way.

Ya está, (hecha implied,) it is already made.

Porque si no, because if not, otherwise.

JVo hay mas alumbrado que él del candil, there is no other light than that of the lamp.

Y no tiene garabato, me veo perdida, and it has no hook (to hang it on). I see myself, or I am undone.

Está desmenuzando, she is crumbling.

D. Periquito, Don Parroquet, meaning the thrush.

Que estará con mucho cuidado. Que (conjunction) is often used, both in prose and verse, instead of for, because. Circuncisión (a nun's ñame) will be with much trouble, apprehension, uneasiness.

/ Qué. chapucerías ! what nonsense !

Mugeres gazmoñas y zalameras, hypocritical and fawning women.

ACT I., SCENES VII., VIII., PAGES 20, 21. 103

ESCENA VII.

Vaya en gracia, well and good, let it be so.

Agugetas, here it means pains produced in consequence f fatigue by extraordinary exercise.

Caballitos, diminutive of caballo, poor little horses.

Que si no, for, if not, otherwise.

JV¿ las plagas de Faraón que tiene dentro, ñor the plagues (the insects or locusts) of Pharaoh, which it has within.

Como los animales amanezcan vivos, provided the animáis rise to«morrow morning alive.

No será poco, it will be no sraall wonder.

Rebentados están, they are beat out.

/ Oiga ! (an interjecüon expressing surprise) hear ! halloa !

¿ Seguidílliias ? a diminutive oí seguidillas, a merry Spanish tune and dance.

Vaya, come ; aventura tenemos, we shall have an adventure, a fine time.

¡Ayl ¡qué desvencijado estoy! how disjointed I am !

ESCENA VIII.

No sea que nos alivien de ropa, lest they should lighten us of clo*hing, that is, for fear some one should rob us.

¿ Gusta usted de que eche una mano? do you wish, will you permit me to lend you a hand ?

/ Calle ! (interjecüon) strange ! wonderful !

/ Hallazgo ! meeting, rencounter.

JJcabamos de llegar, we have just arrived.

JVb que es chanza, it is no joke.

Centellas, lightnings.

Diligencias, steps, inquines.

Vuelta á correr, again to run.

Dar chasquidos, to crack the whip.

104 ACT I., SGENE VIII., PAGES 21-24.

Los rocines molidos, the horses beat out ; rocinante is formed from rocin, nag, jade.

Algo que cenar, something to sup upon.

Aventurado a quitar el hipo á, determined to take away the hiccough &om, Ihat is, to kill.

Currita. another diminutive oí Francisca, dear little Fanny.

El moro Gazid, the Moor Gazul, a celebrated lover.

Un pelele, a man of straw, that is, a fool, a ninny.

Zascandil, an upstart, proud person of mean extraction.

Gaiferos un chiquillo de la doctrina. Gaiferos, an orphan ehild. who receives a gratuitous instruction.

Dio en escribir, set herself to writing.

Bien quisto, well beloved; quisto is the ancient past participle of querer.

Cabal, accomplished. perfect.

Acosada, from acosar, to pursue, to beset.; pursued, beset.

EUo es que, it ís that, the meaning is, the thing is that.

Hubo lugar de discurrir escapatorias y arbitrios, there was time to think of ways and means.

De buena ley, of good alloy, lojal, faithful.

Ponderado, from ponderar, to exaggerate, to heighten, to represent highly.

Estrellados en, from estrellar en, to dash against, dashed against.

Cata el coche de colleras, behold the pablie coach, the stage.

Recogimos, from recoger, to pick up, take up.

Merinaques, trastos, bao-gage, luggage, lumber.

Latigazo, augmentative oí látigo, lash, crack of a wfaip.

Una por una. one after another, bv turns.

JVi respirar siquiera, ñor even breathe.

Yo me entiendo, I understand myself, I know wkat I a ni about.

Que le quiten, from quitar, means here to free, to save one from. that will save him from.