Note 451 — Chapter XIV
Reading edition
The imitation of Enzina’s poetry by Vicente is noticed by the Hamburg editors. (Vol. I. Ensaio, p. xxxviii.) Indeed, it is quite too obvious to be overlooked, and is distinctly acknowledged by one of his contemporaries, Garcia de Resende, the collector of the Portuguese Cancioneiro of 1517, who says, in some rambling verses on things that had happened in his time,—
E vimos singularmente Fazer representações Destilo muy eloquente, De muy novas invenções, E feitas por Gil Vicente. Elle foi o que inventou Isto ca e o usou Cõ mais graça e mais dotrina; Posto que Joam del Enzina O pastoril començou.
Miscellania e Variedade de Historias, at the end of Resende’s Crónica de João II., 1622, folio, f. 164.