Note 63 — 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
In one of the introductory stanzas of his first Portuguese eclogue, he says, addressing the prince Dom Manoel:—
Parecia que andava a colher flores Co as Musas, co as Graças, cos Amores.