Chapter Soulis to Spanish Lady of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook

was married already. On hearing this, the Spanish lady gave him a chain of gold and a pearl bracelet to take to his wife, and told him that she should retire to a nunnery and spend the rest of her life praying for their happiness.

It will be stuck up with the ballad of Margaret’s Ghost [q v.] and the Spanish Lady, against the walls of every cottage in the country.—Bickerstaff: Love in a Village (1763).