[320] His works have been with great veneration preserved by different collectors, and were published by Domingos Carneiro, under the title of Poesias varias da Andre Nunes da Sylva, recolhidas, &c. Lisb. 1671, in one vol. octavo, dedicated to the author.
[321] The following sonnet on the catholic worship of the cross may serve as a specimen:—
Se em golfo de sereas proceloso,
Empenho repetido do cuidado,
O sabio Grego, ao duro Mastro, atado
âs Sereas escapa cauteloso.
Eu, no mar deste mundo tormentoso
De Sirtes et Sereas povoado,
â vossa Cruz, Senhor, sempre abraçado
Os perigos escape venturoso.
Oh livraime, meu Deos, de tanto astuto
Laberintho, de tanto cego encanto,
Para que colha desta planta o fruto;
Que he justo, doce Amor, em risco tanto,
Se salva a Ulisses hum madeiro bruto,
Que a mim me salve este madeiro Santo.
O tumulo de Isabella,
Do firmamento flor, do campo estrella.
And then again:—
Muzico Rouxinol, joga animada—
Es Orpheo aos sentidos, flor á vista.
[323] The following is a stanza of one of his patriotic odes:—
Suspendese confuso o Castelhano
De ver de Portugal o brio ouzado,
E guarnecendo a praça, troca ufana
O trofeo em cuidado;
Retirarse procura,
Porem o Luzo altivo
A batalha o provoca vingativo;
A hum monte se encomenda cautelozo;
Azas o Luzo veste bellicozo,
Hum comete feroz, outro reziste,
Este se anima, aquelle cahe por terra,
Tudo he mal, tudo he pena, tudo he guerra,
Que neste duro empenho de Mavorte
Reina a ira, arde o fogo, impéra a morte.
[324] Besides the Fenix renascida, which contains an account of most of the Portuguese sonneteers of the seventeenth century, there is a later, but upon the whole a much worse collection of the same sort, which comprises only two volumes, though it extends beyond the close of the eighteenth century. It is entitled:—Eccos que o clarim da Fama dà; Postilhaõ de Apollo, &c. (Echos which resound from the trumpet of Fame, or the Postillion of Apollo.) The title is still longer, and the remainder is in still worse taste. The collection was published at Lisbon in the year 1761.