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Another song by the same lady, to some live partridges that were sent to her The nature of these birds is to sing happily, and seeing them caged, I feel acute suffering without anybody's sympathizing \Vith me. They weep because they had no fear of being im prisoned, and they were caught by those fro1n \\'horn they were most aloof. Their names are my life, which is losing its happi ness, and seeing them caged. . This poem has long been known and liked for its vivid picture of imprisoned birds and for Pinar's unequivocal linking of her feelings with theirs, of their predicament with her own.
She has little self-deception, and her awareness of her own motives and weaknesses is trained and systen1atic, but there is no evi dence that she was interested in her personality as distinct fro1n her moral character. Indeed, she may well not have been aware that she 19. The last three classifications are of the type prescribed by confessors' manuals and developed in catechisms. See Zimmermann, "Confession and Autobiography," and Derek \V. Lomax, "The Lateran Reforms and Spanish Literature," Iberoro111ania, 1 (1969): 299-313.
Marep14an. YERMOND adoro, como todo esto que aqui es escrito, es verdad que lo vi y paso por m1. . , ' 8 Let all those \vho read this document knO\V that I . . swear by this sign of the cross which I adore that everything written here is what l truly saw and what happened to me. Its length and content, however, justify its common title of lv1emorias and justify us in treating it as a literary work. So does its style. Once Lopez de Cordoba is launched on her tale, the notarial formulas drop away, to be replaced by \vhat sounds remarkably like her O\Vn style of conversation: Asi que yo soy fija del dicho Maestre [Don Martin Lopez de Cor doba], que fue de Calatrava, enel tiempo del Senor Rey Don Pedro, y cl dicho Senor Rey le hizo merced de darle la Enco mienda de Alcantara, que es en la Ciudad de Sevilla; y luego le hizo Maestre de Alcantara, y a la postre de Calatrava; y el dicho Maestre mi padre era deszendientc dela Casa de Aguilar, y so brino de Don Juan Manuel, fijo de una sobrina suya fija de dos hermanos; y subi6 a tan grande estado, como se hallara en las Cor6nicas de Espana; e como dicho tengo soy fija de Dona Sancha Carrillo, sobrina e criada del Senor Rey Don Alfonso, de mui esclarezida memoria (que Dios de Santo Parayso), padre del dicho Senor Rey Don Pedro, y mi 1nadre falleci6 mui tem prano.