History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2)

Note 81 — BOOK I. FROM THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

Thomasina Ross translation

There is a singular pedantry, with a happy turn of versification, in a song which commences thus:—

Antes el rodante cielo tornara manso y quieto, y sera piadoso Aleto, y pavoroso Metello. Que yo jamas olvidasse tu virtud, vida mia y mi salud, ni te dexasse. Cesar afortunado cessara de combatir, y harian desdezir al Priamides armado— Quando yo te dexarè, ydola mia, ni la tu philosomia olvidarè; &c.

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