Note 133 — II 1325-1521

So did Faria e Sousa, but he, too, had his Lobeira doubts, and after noting that Vasco de Lobeira was knighted by King João I says: ‘si ya no es que era otro del mismo nombre. Pero la Escritura de Amadis se tiene por del tiempo deste Rey don Iuan’ (Fvente de Aganipe (Madrid, 1646), § 10). The obvious sympathy of the author for the escudero viejo who is knighted in Amadis (ii. 13, 14) amidst the laughter of the Court ladies is perhaps significant.