Note 75 — Chapter VI · ERCILLA’S IMITATORS
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“I sing the long and enfeebling war, so grave, so prolix and so tedious, that it has already broken the force of a rich and powerful kingdom; and also whatever memorable deeds those have performed by the sword who, in spite of the state, have resisted the great valour of Arauco.
“I here shall sing the most noted events that have happened between the unwearied Spaniards and the unconquered Indian rebels.”
The poem was published with an introduction and notes by José Toribio Medina at Santiago de Chile, 1888, under the title Las Guerras de Chile, poema histórico por el sargento mayor Juan de Mendoza Monteagudo.