Note 190 — FIRST SECTION. History of Spanish Poetry and Eloquence, from the Introduction of the Italian Style to the Age of Cervantes and Lope de Vega.
Thomasina Ross translation
In the year 1737, that excellent critic Mayans, in allusion to Diego de Mendoza’s Guerra de Granada, observes:—Deve leerse, como el la escriviò. Quiere Dios que algun dia la publique yo! (Orig. de la Lingua Española, vol. i. p. 205). Thus even at that period a genuine edition, such as Mayans wished to superintend, could not be published.