Vuestra Senoria ha hecho
lo que acostumbra hazer,
por do me avra de vencer
o ponerme en gran estrecho:
que haze en estas renzillas
lo que hizo en Tordesillas,
dar comhate tan seguido,
que no pueda el combatido,
si no venir de rodillas.
Notwithstanding this compliment, Fray Luys argues stoutly upon this knotty point; a friend of the Admiral interferes, and takes part with him against the Friar: the Friar, who grows very sore in the course of this long discussion of an endless subject, tells this person that he has fallen into a great blasphemy, and that he understands nothing at all about the matter, and he interdicts any farther dispute with him about it. Notwithstanding this, the Admiral goes on, till the poor Friar is obliged at last to tell him it is better to stop, or he will fall into Pelagianism, and therefore he begs pardon for positively declaring that
