The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega, Surnamed the Prince of Castilian Poets, Translated into English Verse

THE WORKS OF GARCILASSO DE LA VEGA, ETC. ETC.

Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen translation

LONDON: PRINTED BY JAMES MOYES, GREVILLE STREET.

Louis Parez ddin.Rob^t. Cooper Sculp Garcilasso de la Vega. Nat. 1503.Ob. 1536. Published March 1^st. 1823. by Mess^rs. Hurst & Robinson.

THE WORKS OF GARCILASSO DE LA VEGA, SURNAMED THE PRINCE OF CASTILIAN POETS, Translated into English Verse; WITH A CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAY ON SPANISH POETRY, AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

By J. H. WIFFEN.

"Sometimes he turned to gaze upon his book, Boscán or Garcilasso; by the wind Even as the page is rustled whilst we look, So by the poesy of his own mind Over the mystic leaf his soul was shook." Lord Byron.

LONDON: PRINTED FOR HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. 90, CHEAPSIDE, AND 8, PALL MALL.

1823.

TO JOHN, DUKE OF BEDFORD, IN PUBLIC LIFE THE STEADY FRIEND AND ASSERTOR OF OUR LIBERTIES; IN PRIVATE LIFE ALL THAT IS GENEROUS, DIGNIFIED, AND GOOD;

This Translation, IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE LITERARY EASE THAT HAS LED TO ITS PRODUCTION,

IS, WITH DEEP RESPECT AND ADMIRATION, Inscribed BY THE AUTHOR.