Note 31 — Chapter II · REBELLION OF THE MORISCOES.

"La furia horrible de los torbellinos

Cada momento mas se vee yr creciendo;

Cubre la blanca nieve les caminos,

Tambien los hombres luego va cubriendo."

So sings, or rather says, the poet-chronicler Rufo, whose epic of four and twenty cantos shows him to have been much more of a chronicler than a poet. Indeed, in his preface, he avows that strict conformity to truth which is the cardinal virtue of the chronicler.—See the Austriada (Madrid, 1584).