Á TODO HAY QUIEN GANE

=Felipe Pérez y González=, b. in Seville,--journalist, novelist and

playwright,--writing at times under the pseudonym of Tello Téllez.

Works: _El libro malo_, _Tajos y reveses_, _El nuevo sistema tétrico_,

and many light comedies.

=139.=--=Á Todo Hay Quien Gane= (lit., 'there is some one who will get

the better of every one'), 'Every One Is Sometimes Worsted.'

_Á todo hay quien gane_ has 8 syllables to the line:

_Juan,_ | _que^es_ | _pes_ | _ca_ | _dor_ | _de_ | =ca= | _ña,_

_Se_ | _pa_ | _sa^el_ | _dí_ | _a_ | _pes_ | =can= | _do,_

_Y_ | _Pe_ | _dro_ | _lo^es_ | _tá_ | _mi_ | =ran= | _do_

_Con_ | _u_ | _na_ | _son_ | _ri_ | _sa^ex_ | =tra= | _ña_.

The line has one rhythmic stress. The rhyme-scheme is =a=, =b=, =b=,

=a=, etc.

[139.10] =ha de=, 'must.'

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