Note 160 — Chapter XXXVI

Baena, Hijos de Madrid, Tom. II. p. 267. I find no edition of the “Cigarrales de Toledo” cited earlier than 1631; but my copy is dated Madrid, 1624, 4to, and is evidently of the first publication. Covarrubias (ad verb. Cigarral) gives the proper meaning of the word, which is perhaps plain enough from the work itself. The “Deleytar Aprovechando” was reprinted at Madrid in 1765, in 2 tom. 4to. In the “Cigarrales,” Tirso promises to publish twelve novelas, with an argument to connect them, adding, satirically, ”Not stolen from the Tuscans”;—but they never appeared.