Note 74 — CABINET OF BIOGRAPHY. (continued 5)
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In an epistle he mentions his father as having emigrated to Madrid—he speaks of him as living in the valley of Carriedo, but deficiency of means caused him to leave his ancestral inheritance of Vega, and to remove to Madrid. There had been a quarrel between him and his wife, who was jealous, and with reason, as Lope tells us he loved a Spanish Helen; she however followed him, and they were reconciled:
"Y aquel dia fu piedra en mi primero fundamento la paz de su zelosa phantasia. En fin por zelos soy; que nascimiento! imaginalde vos, que haver nacido de tan inquieta causa fue portento." Belardo á Amarylis.