Addendum to my May 3rd post: While there were also lines from a sonnet by Quevedo on the pavement in Madrid, the ones I tried to record were by another Classical Spanish poet, Luis de Góngora (Córdoba, 1561-1627) on Calle de las Huertas:
Ande yo caliente
y ríase la gente.
Traten otros del gobierno
del mundo y sus monarquías
mientras gobiernan mis días
mantequillas y pan tierno, . . .
Let me be warm
and let people laugh.
Let others deal with the government
of the world and its monarchies,
while my days are governed by
butter and soft bread, . . .