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

LONDON:
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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.

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1823.

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IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE LITERARY EASE
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THE
WORKS
OF
GARCILASSO DE LA VEGA,
ETC. ETC.