"Well then," said the farmer, "this son of mine who is going to be a bachelor, fell in love in the said town with a damsel called Clara Perlerina, daughter of Andres Perlerino, a very rich farmer; and this name of Perlerines does not come to them by ancestry or descent, but because all the family are paralytics, and for a better name they call them Perlerines; though to tell the truth the damsel is as fair as an Oriental pearl, and like a flower of the field, if you look at her on the right side; on the left not so much, for on that side she wants an eye that she lost by small-pox; and though her face is thickly and deeply pitted, those who love her say they are not pits that are there, but the graves where the hearts of her lovers are buried.
-Digo, pues -dijo el labrador-, que este mi hijo que ha de ser bachiller se enamoró en el mesmo pueblo de una doncella llamada Clara Perlerina, hija de Andrés Perlerino, labrador riquísimo; y este nombre de Perlerines no les viene de abolengo ni otra alcurnia, sino porque todos los deste linaje son perláticos, y por mejorar el nombre los llaman Perlerines; aunque, si va decir la verdad, la doncella es como una perla oriental, y, mirada por el lado derecho, parece una flor del campo; por el izquierdo no tanto, porque le falta aquel ojo, que se le saltó de viruelas; y, aunque los hoyos del rostro son muchos y grandes, dicen los que la quieren bien que aquéllos no son hoyos, sino sepulturas donde se sepultan las almas de sus amantes.