Editorial note — Bartoleme Las Casas. [Footnote 76]

[Footnote 77: The Cachopin figured in the comedies, farces, romances, and lively pastorals of that age. In the beautiful pastoral of the Diana, by Jorgé Montemayor, in a scene between Fabio, the page, and Felismena, who is disguised as a boy, Fabio says: "I promise you on the faith of a hidalgo, (which I am, for my father is a Cachopin of Laredo,) that my master has better terms."—See Book 2, p. 87; the edition of 1542. Don Quixote met the travellers on the road, and of course described the beauty of his Dulcinea, and when asked who she was— "Her lineage, race, ancestry," answered the Don, "is not of the old Roman Curtius, nor the modern Colonas, nor the Moncadas of Catalonia, the Guerras of Aragon, nor Gusmans of Castile, but of Tobosa de la Mancha." "And mine," said the traveller, "is of the Cachopins of Laredo."]