For I am made of mortal clay.
But she's divine!'"

Fraser, _The Golden Bough_, London, Macmillan & Co., 1900, vol. i,
pp. 293-294. The object of Fernando's love was evidently an undine
(see p. 43, note 1, and p. 47, note 1).]



LA CORZA BLANCA


I

En un pequeño lugar[1] de Aragón,[1] y allá por los años de mil
trescientos y pico, vivía retirado en su torre señorial un famoso
caballero llamado don Dionís, el cual, después de haber servido á su
rey[3] en la guerra contra infieles, descansaba á la sazón, entregado
al alegre ejercicio de la caza, de las rudas fatigas de los combates.

[Footnote 1: un pequeño lugar. Veratón, a feudal town in the
neighborhood of the Moncayo (see p. 8, note 1). Population (1900),
484.]

[Footnote 2: Aragón. "An ancient kingdom, now a captaincy-general of
Spain, capital Saragossa, bounded by France on the north, by
Catalonia on the east, by Valencia on the south, and by New Castile,
Old Castile, and Navarre on the west, comprising the provinces of
Huesca, Saragossa, and Teruel. It is traversed by mountains and
intersected by the Ebro. During the middle ages it was one of the