[Comedias] Help with a line from El valiente negro?

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Dear Michael and all,


Could the line about "la pez" and "los vituperios del mar" have anything to do with the "unmixability" of water and pitch or the fact that pitch, when applied to the keel of a ship, repels water?  This fact would perhaps give the ship greater speed ("fugitivos pies")?


Saludos de

David Hildner

Spanish and Portuguese

University of Wisconsin-Madison
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