[17] Espinosa includes it in his “Flores,” f. 107.

[18] The authors mentioned in this paragraph are, I believe, all more amply noticed elsewhere, except Pedro Soto de Roxas. He was a friend of Lope de Vega, and published in Madrid, 1623, 4to, his “Desengaño de Amor,”—a volume of poems in the Italian manner, the best of which are the madrigals and eclogues.

[19]

Á quien contaré yo mis quejas,

Mi lindo amor;

Á quien contaré mis quejas,

Si á vos no?

Faber found this and a few more in Salina’s treatise on Music, 1577, and placed it, with a considerable number of similar short compositions, in the first volume of his collection, pp. 303, etc.

[20]

O dulce suspiro mio!