Excerpt from Los CiliciosYa Sé que mi juventud dejo pasar ¿qué importa mi juventud?Que no gusto de placeres, ni ardo por las mujeres. ¿qué valen vuestros placeres?Goces que cuestan fatigas, penas vestidas de goce. ¡tengo ya tantas fatigas!Si bebo este vino amargo, es por hacer menos largo este vivir tan amargo.Busco en la vida la muerte, pero ella me huye y yo en vano brindo mi vida a la muerte.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.