I called her cruel, ungrateful, false, thankless, but above all covetous, since the wealth of my enemy had blinded the eyes of her affection, and turned it from me to transfer it to one to whom fortune had been more generous and liberal. And yet, in the midst of this outburst of execration and upbraiding, I found excuses for her, saying it was no wonder that a young girl in the seclusion of her parents' house, trained and schooled to obey them always, should have been ready to yield to their wishes when they offered her for a husband a gentleman of such distinction, wealth, and noble birth, that if she had refused to accept him she would have been thought out of her senses, or to have set her affection elsewhere, a suspicion injurious to her fair name and fame.
Dile títulos de cruel, de ingrata, de falsa y desagradecida; pero, sobre todos, de codiciosa, pues la riqueza de mi enemigo la había cerrado los ojos de la voluntad, para quitármela a mí y entregarla a aquél con quien más liberal y franca la fortuna se había mostrado; y, en mitad de la fuga destas maldiciones y vituperios, la desculpaba, diciendo que no era mucho que una doncella recogida en casa de sus padres, hecha y acostumbrada siempre a obedecerlos, hubiese querido condecender con su gusto, pues le daban por esposo a un caballero tan principal, tan rico y tan gentil hombre que, a no querer recebirle, se podía pensar, o que no tenía juicio, o que en otra parte tenía la voluntad: cosa que redundaba tan en perjuicio de su buena opinión y fama.