Note 264 — CHAP. III. HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, FROM THE LATTER YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY UNTIL TOWARDS THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH.

A sufficient acquaintance with the more celebrated of these Portuguese sonneteers, may be acquired from the collection of Portuguese poems, edited by Matthias Pereira da Sylva, under the following fantastical title:—A Fenix renascida, ou Obras poeticas dos melhores engenhos Portugueses (though only those of the seventeenth century are included). Segunda ediçaõ. Lisb. 1746, in 3 volumes octavo. Not one half of this collection is worth perusing.