Miguel Sánchez Requejo

Miguel Sánchez Requejo (or Requexo; called la Divino, 'the Divine'; 1560 – 1620) was a playwright and poet of the Spanish Golden Age.

Quotes

• De Carlos el Rey es hija,
  Mas es muger, y ha mas años
  La mudanza en las mugeres,
  Que no la nobleza en Carlos.
  • Daughter she is, 'tis true, of Charles the King,
    But she is woman, and in womankind
    Hath fickleness for far more years held sway
    Than Charles can count of noble ancestry.
  • Don Gayferos (ed. Duran; tr. Harbottle and Hume)

• Diferentes son las leyes
  Mas no hay ley en pecho humano
  Cuando llega á ser el alma
  Idólatra de un cuidado.
  •          Diverse are the laws,
    But there's no law that sways the heart of man
    When the soul sets some sorrow in a shrine
    And worships it.
  • Don Gayferos (ed. Duran; tr. Harbottle and Hume)

• Las mujeres son espejo
  Que viendo vuestro retrato,
  Si os descuidais y otro llega,
  Hará con él otro tanto.
  • Women, like mirrors, may reflect,
    Perchance your very face;
    If you the compliment neglect,
    Another takes your place.
  • Don Gayferos (ed. Duran; tr. Harbottle and Hume)

• Su confuso entendimiento
  Es codicioso letrado,
  Que hace leyes siempre al gusto
  De que llega á consultarlo.
  • For his confused and wayward wit
    Like to a greedy lawyer is,
    Who laws doth make to suit the taste
    Of those who do his counsel seek.
  • Don Gayferos (ed. Duran; tr. Harbottle and Hume)

• La fe que un enojo muda
  Fe no muy segura fué.
  • A faith that's moved by anger
    A feeble faith must be.
  • La Guarda Cuidadosa, act 1 — loq. Nisea (tr. Harbottle and Hume)

• (Pues) necio suelen llamar
  A quien se pone á curar
  Con médico poco sano.
  • A booby is he, to be sure,
    Who, being ill and seeking cure,
    A sickly doctor calls.
  • La Guarda Cuidadosa, act 1 — loq. Nisea (tr. Harbottle and Hume)

• Veces hay que por correr
  Mucho mas tarde se llega.
  • Sometimes it falls, by running much
    The later we arrive.
  • La Guarda Cuidadosa, act 1 — loq. Sileno (tr. Harbottle and Hume)

• (Pero) pésame que corra
  Esta opinion, aunque falsa;
  Que este decir mal as salsa
  Que á muchos de pan ahorra.
  • Sad it is, but must be said,
    People think, though false, I ween.
    Scandal is a relish keen
    Used by most to save their bread.
  • La Guarda Cuidadosa, act 3 — loq. Leucato (tr. Harbottle and Hume)

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• Don Agustin Duran (ed.) Romancero General, ó Coleccion de Romances Castellanos, vol. 1 (Madrid, 1849), p. 252, no. 378
• T. B. Harbottle; M. A. S. Hume (eds.) Dictionary of Quotations: Spanish (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., 1907), pp. 59, 74, 177, 200, 240, 294, 364, 390