Note 728 — Chapter XXVI
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Thus, Mira de Mescua, at the conclusion of “The Death of St. Lazarus,” (Comedias Escogidas, Tom. IX., 1657, p. 167), says:—
Here ends the play Whose wondrous tale Mira de Mescua wrote To warn the many. Pray forgive our faults.
And Francisco de Leyba finishes his “Amadis y Niquea” (Comedias Escogidas, Tom. XL., 1675, f. 118) with these words:—
Don Francis Leyba humbly bows himself, And at your feet asks,—not a victor shout,— But rather pardon for his many faults.
In general, however, as in the “Mayor Venganza” of Alvaro Cubillo, and in the “Caer para levantarse” of Matos, Cancer, and Moreto, the annunciation is simple, and made, apparently, to protect the rights of the author, which, in the seventeenth century, were so little respected.