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The duenna of Belerma She had seven daughters, who wept so bitterly at the death of Durandarte. that Merlin, out of pity, turned them into lakes or estuaries. (Don Quixote pt. ii. bk. ii. ch. 6.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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