38. =¿Ha lugar, muesama?= Menga uses in her speech country
dialect forms, many of them very old in the language.
48. =benditos riales=; in the European countries where the
metric system has been adopted, the illiterate classes still cling
by preference to the old measures for currency, weight, and
volume.
58. =más sesenta=; the original reads _menos_ =sesenta=, but the
sense requires _más_.
76. =del quinto infierno=; the hell of Dante and the medieval
theologians contained nine separate circles. On Menga's lips,
however, _from the fifth hell_ means no more than 'from a very
remote region,' 'from the North Pole.' Cf. _la quinta esencia_,
'quintessence.'
116. =que=; appears to have no more force than _y_ in this type
of phrase. Probably this use arose from the causal sense of _que =
porque_.
140. =todo el señorío=, the subject of _nos abonaremos_, 'all we
gentlefolk.'