The Story Which a Young Goatherd Told to Those That Were with Don Quixote.
A new arrival brings them news of a recent death. A young man of the village, Chrysostom, has died for love of Marcella, a coy and beautiful daughter of a rich merchant who has dressed herself in the garb of a shepherdess and pastured her sheep in the hills. So desirable is she that many suitors have dressed themselves as shepherds, driving their flocks into the hills in hopes of gaining Marcella's attention. While shepherds all over the hills are thus pining, sighing, and lamenting, Marcella remains deaf to all words of love and refuses to hear suits for marriage.
