well,first of all your Honour should know that my name is Lazaro de Tormes,sson of Tome Gonzales and Antona Perez,who lived in Tejares,a village near Salamanca. I was actually born in the river Tormes and that's why I took that surname and this is how it all happened. My father, God rest his soul,was in charge of a water-mill on the bank of that river. He'd been for over fifteen years. My mother was there one night during her pregnancy ,and her time came and she had me there,so I can say in fact that I was born in the river. Now when I was about eight years old they caught my father bleeding the sacks belonging to the people who came to have their crops milled there. So they arrested him,and he confessed,denied nothing and was punished by law. I hope to God he is in Heaven,because the Gospel says that people like are blessed. About this time there was an expedition against the Moors and my father fater went with. He was living away from home as part of his sentence as a mule driver for a gentle man who went on the expedition,and he ended his life with his master like a loyal servant