Note 9 — Scene I.—Country near Zalamea.

Don Lope de Figueroa, who figures also in the Amar despues de la Muerte, was (says Mr. Ticknor) ‘the commander under whom Cervantes served in Italy, and probably in Portugal, when he was in the Tercio de Flandes,—the Flanders Regiment,—one of the best bodies of troops in the armies of Philip II.,’ and the very one now advancing, with perhaps Cervantes in it, to Zalamea.