Note 366 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 2)

It contains a dispute between Maize and Rye, after the very popular fashion of the contention between Winter and Spring in Vicente’s Auto dos Quatro Tempos, and the poetical contrasts common in the Middle Ages and in the East, and still in vogue among the improvisatori of Basque villages, between wine and water, boots and sandals, &c.