What Mass Can Hear

Lo que puede el oír misa is a theatrical comedy of religious cut by Antonio Mira de Amescua. The work reflects the game of appearance and concealment of reality to the extent of supplanting a human personality with a supernatural entity.

Day one

(Boxes sound and the Count, Infante, Fortún and Mendo come out.)

Conde: Don’t march. The boxes are silent
Because on this bank
I pretend that they find me
The lights that wander in this sphere
They light up another pole.
Here they have to look at me, either dead or alone.
In Burgos I do not have to enter, nor my palace
On your thresholds see
that I become of space
without defeating the Moors; here be
My room agora
from the expiration of the Sun to the dawn.
In the country tents we will live.
Do not say in Castile
than high extremes
From the coat of arms that to the wonder orbs
will be missing because they are old
Fernán González. Today strength and advice
administer my breast, and the Infant
Garci Fernandez can,
like my son, being an Atlantean Christian
May my value inherit.

Infant: Lord and my father,
well you do; the banks of this river,
as Burgos receives
your armies today; your living people
in the field in the meantime
That you defeat the Moors with fright.
Do not say that we return without victory;
Let’s hope he comes back
Sancho Osorio. If you have gone
With ambition of glory
to spy on the Moor in this jungle
In view of the luminous stars,
your field into squadrons divided,
until they become undone or glorious,
cheerful will live.

Fortún: To see you has come
the Infanta, my lady.

Infant: From the light of my Sun will be aurora.

(Violante and Blanca come out, with swords, hats and feathers.)

Violante: Sir, if your highness
Two soldiers admits,
poorly exercised in the militia,
He already has them at his feet.

Fragment of the work