[140] Among them he speaks of many ballads that he had written:—
Yo he compuesto Romances infinitos,
Y el de los Zelos es aquel que estimo
Entre otros, que los tengo por malditos.
c. 4.
All these are lost, except such as may be found scattered through his longer works, and some which have been suspected to be his in the Romancero General. Clemencin, notes to his ed. of Don Quixote, Tom. III. pp. 156, 214. Coleccion de Poesías de Don Ramon Fernandez, Madrid, 1796, 8vo, Tom. XVI. p. 175. Mayans, Vida de Cervantes, No. 164.
[141] Apollo tells him, (Viage, ed. 1784, p. 55),—
“Mas si quieres salir de tu querella,
Alegre y no confuso y consolado,
Dobla tu capa y siéntate sobre ella.