Note 316 — CHAP. III. HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, FROM THE LATTER YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY UNTIL TOWARDS THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH.
Thomasina Ross translation
This lyric eulogy is thus superscribed:—
Ao serenissimo Rey D. Affonso, quando mandou alistar por soldado a Santo Antonio de Lisboa.
Bahia advises his sovereign to suspend the further levying of troops. He says:—
Deixay mais listas, pois jà Santo Antonio se alistou, Que como suo pay livrou, Sua patria livrarà.