Note 40 — LIFE OF CERVANTES.
Thomasina Ross translation
Mayans y Siscar and Pellicer quote this anecdote on the authority of Baltasar Porreño, who wrote a work entitled Sayings and Doings (Dichos y Hechos) of Philip III. As the incident, recorded in the anecdote, is stated to have taken place in Madrid, it must have occurred after the year 1606, when the Court removed from Valladolid to the capital.