Note 1172 — Chapter XIV

Lord Holland has given a fuller account of the poetry of Lope de Vega than either Bouterwek or Velasquez and Dieze; and the extracts in his Lives of Lope de Vega and Guillen de Castro, will not, I believe, be found in the Parnaso Español, which is contrived on a happy plan of excluding what is best. Las Lagrimas de Angelica, by Barahona de Soto, Lord H. says, has always been esteemed one of the best poems in the Spanish language, vol. i. p. 33. Bouterwek says he has never met with the book. It is praised by Cervantes in Don Quixote.