Note 351 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80]

In Spanish also are the fifty-six romances which make up the poem La Jornada, &c. (1623), written on the coming of Philip III to Portugal in 1619. In the eclogues, written chiefly in redondilhas, he sings with spontaneous charm as praticas humildes e os cuidados Não por arte fingidos e enfeitados of the rusticos vaqueiros, as he says in the prefatory sonnet. Many of the words are pleasantly indigenous: milho, boroa, salgueiraes, rafeiro, charneca, chocalho, abegões, ovelheiros.