[8] No imaginary but a real personage, whose true name was Antonio Cabreriza.
[9] The Morisco was called dog by the Christians; and cat (gato) was a cant word for thief.
[10] There is a scene here which will not bear an English dress. The scholars stand around and spit at Pablo. There is no other humour of which the reader is deprived.
[11] The famous secretary of Philip II., whose intrigues against Spain never ceased till his death in 1611.
[12] Ostend was taken by the Spaniards under Espinola, on the 22nd September, 1604, after a siege which lasted more than three years.
[13] A book so named, written by a famous master of the sword, Pacheco de Narvaez, was published at Madrid in 1600.
[14] There was actually a famous fencing-master, a mulatto, Francisco Hernandez, of whom his rival, Narvaez, wrote slightingly. Probably they are both ridiculed in this passage.
[15] Majalahonda is a village ten miles from Madrid, famous for the rudeness of its inhabitants and their speech. See Don Quixote, Part ii., chap. xix.
[16] Demandador—one who begs for alms for the release of the souls of the poor from purgatory, elsewhere called facetiously animero.
[17] In the original que era un Conde de Irlos. The Conde de Irlos was one of the heroes of the ancient ballads. He was the Marquis de Carabas of Spanish legend.