
La figura de la Esperança.
TERCETOS.
Dialogo. Lettor. Esperança.
L. Quien eres tu
que a’l cielo estas alçada?
Con que pinzel fue fecha tu figura?
E. Elpidio[1] me pintò. yo soy llamada
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La Esperança que no ay cosa dura
Que facil no la buelva y la enternezca.
L. Por que hizo verde (di) tu vestidura?
E. No ay cosa que por mi no reverdezca.
L. Por que las flechas de la
Muerte ayrada
Quebradas traes?[2] E. Porque a’l
bivo crezca
Solamente Esperança, que acabada
La vida, que esperar acà no queda.
L. En la tinaja por que estàs sentada?
E. Volando el mal yo sola estuve queda:
Como lo canta d’el Ascręo la Musa.[3] [M]
L. Que ave es esa (di) tan mansa y leda?
E. Es la Corneja[4], que contino usa
El dar buena Esperança,
por
que quando
No es, dize serà con voz confusa.
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L. Quien son los que te estan acompañando?
E. Cobdicia y Buen succeso,[5] y van delante
Los que velando estan, y estan soñando.
L. Quien es esotra que con faz constante
Te mira y te acompaña y junta viene?
E. Es la que venga el mal en un instante, [M]
Y solo da à sperar lo que conviene.
[Marginalia - link to text]Hesiodo.
[Marginalia - link to text]Nemesis.
1. Elpidius is an invented name derived from Greek ἐλπίς, ‘hope’.
2. For Death’s arrows cf. [A49a065], [A49a066].
3. See Hesiod, Opera et dies 90ff. for the story of Pandora’s box or jar
4. The crow was a bird of prophecy and an emblem of hope. Its caw was interpreted as cras, cras, ‘tomorrow, tomorrow’. Cf. the proverb, Quod hodie non est, cras erit: ‘What is not today shall be tomorrow.’
5. Bonus Eventus or Bonne Aventure, cf. Evento Buono in Ripa, Iconologia; also called ‘Success’ or ‘Happy Ending’.
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