11 How. St. Tr. 1204.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)
“In ancient days they said truth had fled to heaven: attacked on every side, it's not been heard of since. We live in different ages, non-Spaniards and ourselves: they in the age of silver, we in the age of brass.”
Dijeron que antiguamente
se fue la verdad al cielo;
tal la pusieron los hombres,
que desde entonces no ha vuelto.
En dos edades vivimos
los propios y los ajenos:
la de plata los estraños,
y la de cobre los nuestros.
Act I, sc. iv. Translation from Alan S. Trueblood and Edwin Honig (ed. and trans.) La Dorotea (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1985) p. 23.
La Dorotea (1632)
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Dijeron que antiguamente se fue la verdad al cielo; tal la pusieron los hombres, que desde entonces no ha vuelto. En dos edades vivimos los propios y los ajenos: la de plata los estraños, y la de cobre los nuestros.
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