El buscon francisco de quevedo pdf

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English Subject terms: Spanish literature. View entire text. To his much Honoured Friend T. Buscon's Extraction, with the Quality of his Father and Mother. Buscon is sent to School, and the pleasant adventure which befell him, whilest he was King of the Scholars.

They arrive at Alcala. The conceited Extravagancies of a certain Poet whom Buscon overtook going to Madrid. Buscon returns to Madrid, and in the way fals into the company of one Piedescaux, who said he was a Knight of the Order of Industrie.

Buscon being to practice in this Order, snap'd a Cully, and cheated a whore. Buscon turns Poet, and at last renounceth that Trade. Buscon contracts a particular friendship with one of the Comedians; they go together unto Seville: He falls in love with a rich Merchants Daughter: They both get themselves admitted into service in the same house: The admirable inventions and tricks which Buscon useth to ingage the young Maid to love him: His Marriage with her, being a very pleasant Story.

Letters of Sir Parsimonious Thrift. Unto a Curtisan, who demanded money of him to pay for her Lodgings. Another Letter on the same subject. A pleasant denyal to an importunate Lady of Pleasure.

He thought he had gotten a Mistris who would not have asked any thing of him, but he is deceived in Tobee. He promiseth to live honest that he may save his money. He abuseth one who would have had him promise to marry her. The first, instigated by Don Diego, is a childish prank which involves calling a certain Poncio de Aguirre, a Converso, by a name sure to anger him: Poncio Pilato Pontius Pilot.

The horse is scrawny and skeletal and during the parade snatches a cabbage from a vegetable stall. The woman owner screams and a fight ensues in which Pablos is pelted with carrots, turnips, egg plants and other vegetables.

Frightened by the barrage, the horse rears and Pablos ends up in a pile of excrement. Chapter 3. Dressed in a greasy cassock, he looks like the Angel of Death.

He starves his pupils, feeding them thin gruel in which they have to search for a turnip or scrap of meat or a chick pea. So deprived of food are the students that there is no toilet in the school because none of them has eaten enough to defecate. Pablos is unable to retain the enema which shoots out all over the woman.

Chapter 4. Pablos asks to accompany Don Diego as his servant. They quickly sum up the naive Don Diego, ingratiate themselves with him and end up eating at his expense. A student suggests playing a trick on a miserly old merchant at the inn. They all have a good laugh the following day when the merchant discovers the mess.

But the last laugh is on Don Diego and Pablos who are embarrassed by the taunts directed at them by the innkeeper and the ruffians.

Chapter 5. After speaking disparagingly of the large number of Moriscos [in Spain] and of long-nosed Conversos, Pablos gets back to his narrative. The day after arriving, Don Diego heads to class leaving Pablos alone. As a newcomer, Pablos is put upon and taunted because some youths claim that he stinks.

He pretends not to care and laughs with his taunters at which point they all begin to clear their throats ominously. Soon he is covered by a bombardment of phlegm.

He hurries back to his room, cleans himself as well as possible and then drops to sleep on his bed. They pretend they are being attacked and whiplashed. To avoid being beaten, Pablos hides under his bed.