Finally, I presented myself to the duke, and was received and treated by him so kindly that very soon envy began to do its work, the old servants growing envious of me, and regarding the duke's inclination to show me favour as an injury to themselves. But the one to whom my arrival gave the greatest pleasure was the duke's second son, Fernando by name, a gallant youth, of noble, generous, and amorous disposition, who very soon made so intimate a friend of me that it was remarked by everybody; for though the elder was attached to me, and showed me kindness, he did not carry his affectionate treatment to the same length as Don Fernando.
Pero el que más se holgó con mi ida fue un hijo segundo del duque, llamado Fernando, mozo gallardo, gentilhombre, liberal y enamorado, el cual, en poco tiempo, quiso que fuese tan su amigo, que daba que decir a todos; y, aunque el mayor me quería bien y me hacía merced, no llegó al estremo con que don Fernando me quería y trataba. »Es, pues, el caso que, como entre los amigos no hay cosa secreta que no se comunique, y la privanza que yo tenía con don Fernando dejada de serlo por ser amistad, todos sus pensamientos me declaraba, especialmente uno enamorado, que le traía con un poco de desasosiego.