Note 140 — BOOK VI.

López Maldonado seems to have been on very friendly terms with Lope de Vega and, more especially, with Cervantes. In Don Quixote (Part I., chap. vi), the latter writes:—"es grande amigo mio." Lope and Cervantes both contributed prefatory verses to López Maldonado's Cancionero (1586) of which the Priest expressed a favourable opinion when examining Don Quixote's library:—"it gives rather too much of its eclogues, but what is good was never yet plentiful: let it be kept with those that have been set apart."