Note 4 — Chapter I

Gongora's sonnet, for instance, which is thus Englished by Churton—

"Our Queen had borne a Prince. When all were gay, A Lutheran envoy came across the main. With some six hundred followers in his train,— All knaves of Luther's brood. His proud array Cost us, in one fair fortnight and a day, A million ducats of the gold of Spain, In jewels, feasting crowds, and pageant play. But then he brought us, for our greater gain, The peace King James on Calvin's Bible swore. Well! we baptized our Prince; Heaven bless the child! But why make Luther rich, and leave Spain poor? What witch our dancing courtiers' wits beguiled?— Cervantes, write these doings: they surpass Your grave Don Quixote, Sancho and his ass."

See also Cervantes' ballad of the Churching of Queen Margaret, in his Exemplary Novel of The Little Gipsy, written, however, some years after the event.