story that offers some striking resemblances to _La Corza Blanca_ of
Becquer. A beautiful princess is transformed by a wicked fairy into
a white hind, which form she is allowed to quit at certain hours of
the day. One day, while still in the form of the hind, she is
pursued by her lover and wounded by an arrow. However, a release
from the enchantment and a happy marriage end the sufferings of the
heroine. In this Spanish tale the transformation is voluntary, which
fact gives to Constanza the traits of a witch.

In Wordsworth's beautiful poem _The White Doe of Rylstone_ we find
the doe divested of all the elements of witchcraft, and in its
solicitude for the gentle and bereft Lady Emily it is likened
symbolically

To the grief of her soul that doth come and go
In the beautiful form of this innocent Doe:
Which, though seemingly doomed in its breast to sustain
A softened remembrance of sorrow and pain,
Is spotless, and holy, and gentle, and bright;
And glides o'er the earth like an angel of light.

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Asi pensando y discurriendo pasó Garcés la tarde, y cuando ya el sol
comenzó á esconderse por detras de las vecinas lomas y don Dionís
mando volver grupas á su gente para tornar al castillo, separóse sin
ser notado de la comitiva y echo en busca del zagal por lo más espeso
é intrincado del monte.

La noche había cerrado casi por complete cuando don Dionís llegaba á