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He did not devote by any means all his time to his literary pursuits, but found time to attend faithfully to his religious duties and to the cares of his home, for he had gathered about him his children, Feliciana, Lope Félix and Antonia Clara, of whom the last two and Marcela, in a convent since 1621, were the gifted fruit of illicit loves.
=Levantó la cabeza=, note the use of definite article instead of possessive pronoun. =No pudo menos de reírse=, he could not help laughing. =Cuando se la da cuerda=, when it is wound up. =Al salir de=, on coming from. =Me hago como que no la veo=, I'll make out that I don't see her. =A quien acabo de encontrar=, whom I have just found.
It would seem that, on leaving the University about 1582, he became Secretary to the Marqués de las Navas and that for four or five years he led in Madrid a dissolute life, writing verses and frequenting the society of actors and of other young degenerates like himself and enjoying the favor of a young woman, Elena Osorio, whom he addressed in numberless poems as "Filis" and whom he calls "Dorotea" in his dramatic romance of the same name.
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