Don't mock a poor captive
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Não esteja assim a escarnecer de uma pobre captiva.
Don't go on mocking a poor captive.
Don't go on mocking a poor captive.
She names her condition without flinching: 'uma pobre captiva', a poor captive. And she names his courtship for what it feels like from where she stands — 'escarnecer', mockery, a cruelty dressed as attention. To be wooed by the man who owns your sister's household is not flattery; it is one more thing done to her without her leave, and she refuses to mistake it for kindness.
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