‘And in that deathlike [ ] cave’

Written loosely in pencil in Nbk 12, this fragment is a translation from Calderón's Origen, pérdida y restauración de la Virgen del Sagrario (The origin, loss and restoration of the Virgin of the Sanctuary) which is set in eleventh-century Toledo. Mary transcribed these lines in Mary Copybk 1. Given their proximity in the nbk to I more esteem, it seems likely that they were written between 30 September and 10 November 1819 (see headnote to no. 234). The source of these lines is a passage identified by Timothy Webb in BSM xix p. lxxvi n. 35, in the final speech of Selin, the Moor, at the end of Act III of Origen where he describes the cavern in which the vision of the Virgin appeared to him. S. transcribed the passage in pencil directly beneath these lines as follows: en este lobrego sitio Mil caducas ruinas yazen de edificios y de hombres