Note 46 — Chapter V · SPANISH PROSE ROMANCE.
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The fame and the excellence of Le Diable Boiteux of Le Sage entitle the author of El Diablo Cojuelo to notice in this chapter. Luis Velez de Guevara (1572 or 1574-1644) of Ecija was a fertile dramatist. His Diablo Cojuelo, published in 1641, supplied the starting-point, and the matter but not the form, of the two first chapters of Le Diable Boiteux. There is nothing answering to the famous “Après cela on nous réconcilia; nous nous embrassâmes; depuis ce temps là nous sommes ennemis mortels.” The matter of the Diablo Cojuelo is akin to the Visions of Quevedo, and the style is very idiomatic.