“Let me go warm and merry still;
And let the world laugh, an' it will.”

Andeme yo caliente
y ríase la gente.
Letrillas, "Andeme yo caliente", line 1, cited from Robert Jammes (ed.) Letrillas (Madrid: Castalia, 1980) p. 115. Translation from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Poets and Poetry of Europe (New York: C. S. Francis, 1855) p. 695

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Ándeme yo caliente y ríase la gente.

Citas en verso
Source: [Góngora] (1981), p. 57.

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