Galicia, Vizcaya, Asturias,
O ya montañas le llaman.
The valley of Carriedo is said to be very beautiful, and Miñano, in his “Diccionario Geográfico,” (Madrid, 8vo, Tom. II., 1826, p. 40), describes La Vega as occupying a fine position on the banks of the Sandoñana.
[201] “Before he knew how to write, he loved verses so much,” says Montalvan, his friend and executor, “that he shared his breakfast with the older boys, in order to get them to take down for him what he dictated.” Fama Póstuma, Obras Sueltas, Tom. XX. p. 28.
[202] In the “Laurel de Apolo” he says he found rough copies of verses among his father’s papers, that seemed to him better than his own.
[203] See Dedication of the “Hermosa Ester” in Comedias, Madrid, 4to, Tom. XV., 1621.
[204] In the “Fama Póstuma.”
[205] This curious passage is in the Epistle, or Metro Lyrico, to D. Luis de Haro, Obras Sueltas, Tom. IX. p. 379:—
Ni mi fortuna muda
Ver en tres lustros de mi edad primera