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

Note 62 — CHAP. II. HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY AND ELOQUENCE FROM THE EPOCH OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ITALIAN STYLE, TILL TOWARDS THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

Thomasina Ross translation

He says in his third sonnet:—

Ando cos meus papeis em differenças. Sam preceitos de Horacio, me diram! Em al nam posso, sigoo em apparenças. Quem muito peleijou, como irá sam? Tantos ledores, tantas as sentenças. Cum vento vellas vem, et vellas vam.

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