Note 79 — INTRODUCTION TO THE GALATEA.

In the Second Book of the Galatea, Silveria is said to have green eyes, Attentive readers will remember that Loaysa has green eyes in El Celoso extremeño: see vol. viii. of the present edition (Glasgow, 1902), p. 24. Green would seem to have been a favourite colour with Cervantes: see a paper entitled Lo Verde, published by a writer who uses the pseudonym of Doctor Thebussem, in La España moderna (Madrid, March, 1894), vol. lxiii., pp. 43-60.