Note 114 — Chapter X
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Cervantes, no doubt, valued himself upon these immaterial agencies; and after his time, they became common on the Spanish stage. Calderon, in his “Gran Príncipe de Fez,” (Comedias, Madrid, 1760, 4to, Tom. III. p. 389), thus explains two, whom he introduces, in words that may be applied to those of Cervantes:—
Representando los dos De su buen Genio y mal Genio Exteriormente la lid, Que arde interior en su pecho.
His good and evil genius bodied forth, To show, as if it were in open fight, The hot encounter hidden in his heart.