Note 40 — BOOK I. FROM THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

The new edition of the Menina e Moça, ou Saudades de Bernardim Ribeyro, published by one of the descendants of the poet, Lisboa 1785, in 8vo. is easier to read than the old edition, on account of the more regular punctuation. But the old and scarce edition, which, however, bears on the title page, the words de novo estampada, Lisboa 1559, in 8vo. contains, in an appendix, Ribeyro’s eclogues, and also a collection of old Portuguese poems by other authors.