La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades; modernised and edited with introd., notes, vocabulary, and direct-method exercises, by H. Chonon Berkowitz and Samuel A. Wofsy.

La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades; modernised and edited with introd., notes, vocabulary, and direct-method exercises, by H. Chonon Berkowitz and Samuel A. Wofsy.

Cotal fortuna a casa li conduca, Che lor fiacchi le gambe al primo passo, E nel secondo l'osso della nuca.

Thus, Armado, describing Holofernes, says, "That's all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for I protest the schoolmaster is exceeding fantastical,too, too vain,too, too vain; but we will put it, as they say, to fortuna della guerra";whilst Holofernes, not behind his counterpart in self-esteem, sees in the other the defects which he cannot detect in himself.

dicere, et Laudare fortunas meas, Qui Gnatum haberem tali ingenio proeditum.