Note 239 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80]

Reference to gold, jewels, sapphires, pearls, rubies is frequent in his plays. The goldsmith in the Farsa das Almocreves uses the technical word bastiães which occurs in the Livro Vermelho of Afonso V: E porque alguns Ouriueses tem ora feita algũa prata dourada e de bastiães. It occurs, however, in the Cancioneiro Geral (galantes bastiães), in Resende’s Miscellania (bestiães), and other writers.