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Note 237 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80]

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Com muita pena de minha velhice. Ruy de Pina calls a man mui velho whose father (King João I) would have been but ninety-one in that year (Cr. de Afonso V, cap. 105). Cf. Jorge Ferreira, Ulysippo, iii. 3: velho se pode chamar pois vai aos cincoenta anos.

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