The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes. Anonymous

The esquire longs to share with Lazaro 65 Lazaro’s kindness and tact 66 Provides a supper for his master 67 Examines the esquire’s clothes 68 Kindly feeling for his master 68 Begging prohibited 69 Kept alive by shop-girls 69 Misery and starvation 70 The esquire bemoans his fate 70 Lazaro’s terror at the dead body coming 71 Lazaro bars the door 72 Door unbarred 73 The esquire’s story 73 His ideas of honour 74 The esquire disappears when asked for the rent 77 Creditors search the house 78 Lazaro taken into custody 81 Lazaro deserted by his master 82 FOURTH MASTER HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A FRIAR OF THE ORDER OF MERCY, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM The fourth master does not suit 83 FIFTH MASTER HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A SELLER OF PAPAL INDULGENCES The seller of Indulgences curries favour with the parochial clergy 84 Subtle contrivances 85 A sham quarrel 85 The sermon begun 87 Interruption 87 Hypocritical prayer 88 Sham miracle 89 The people taken in 90 The farce continued 91 Lazaro behind the scenes 92 SIXTH MASTER HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A CHAPLAIN, AND HOW HE PROSPERED Lazaro becomes a water-carrier 95 Is able to wear good clothes 96 SEVENTH MASTER HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A CONSTABLE, AND WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS Lazaro’s prosperity continues 97 Gets a Government appointment 97 The archpriest of St. Saviour’s 98 Lazaro married 98 Evil tongues 99 A good understanding 100 Conclusion 103

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INTRODUCTORY

       Table of Contents

THE FAMILY OF MENDOZA

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      Descent of the

       author of Lazarillo de Tormes.

      The author of Lazarillo de Tormes was a scion of one of the noblest families of Spain, and some account of it should precede a notice of the author’s life.[1]

      Don Diego Lopez, Lord of Mendoza, in 1170 married Doña Eleanor Hurtado, heiress of Mendibil. She was the daughter of Fernan Perez de Lara called Hurtado, son of Pedro Gonzalez de Lara and of the Queen Urraca of Castille and Leon.

      Don Lopez and Eleanor Hurtado had four sons: Inigo, Lord of Mendoza; Diego, Lord of Mendibil; Pedro Diaz, who was ancestor of the Mendozas of Seville; and Fernando, who founded the line in Portugal.

Inigo Lopez de Mendoza married Maria de Haro, and was father of Maria, the wife of her first cousin, Juan de Mendoza, son of her uncle Diego. Their son, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, in the time of Fernando II., married Maria Gonzalez de Aguero, and had a son Gonzalo.

      This Gonzalo Hurtado de Mendoza married Juana Fernandez de Orozco, and was the father of a very distinguished son—of Pedro Gonzalez.

      A Mendoza saved

       the life of King

       Juan I. of Castille.Pedro Gonzalez Hurtado de Mendoza married Aldonza, daughter of Fernan Perez de Ayala. He was with Juan I., of Castille, at the battle of Aljubarrota. In the flight the King’s horse was killed. Mendoza dismounted and said to the King:—

      El cavallo vos han muerto,[2]

      Subid Rey en mi cavallo.

      The King rode away. Mendoza was overtaken and slain. The date of the battle was August 14, 1385. His father survived him, dying in 1405.

      The son of this chivalrous