Note 345 — SECOND SECTION. History of Spanish Poetry and Eloquence, from the Age of Cervantes and Lope de Vega to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century.
Thomasina Ross translation
For example:—Mastines fieles, guardadores de las simples ovejuelas, que debaxo de su amparo estan seguras de los carniceros dientes de los hambrientos lobos.