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The Vicereine having already baptized her child, the poet offers congratulations on his birth
I have not wanted, dear Lysi, / to send my felicitations / for the child God has given you / until you returned him to God: / in your religion, señora, / though your beauty engenders him, / you would not want to call him yours / if he does not belong to God.