In the canon
La Celestina (The Spanish Bawd)
- Form
- Form Play
- Year
- Year 1499
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 250
Old Celestina keeps a room of jars: oils, thread, virgin wax, a serpent's fangs, and the needles with which she has restitched more maidenheads than she can count. A lovesick young nobleman's servants pay her to soften the girl who has already refused him, and she goes to the door with a bundle of yarn she has spoken a devil into.
In this, Melibea, I see heavens greatnesse, and goodnesse.
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