"Duosque Senecas, unicumque Lucanum,
Facunda loquitur Corduba."
Martial, ep. LXII. lib. I.
And Statius records the same fact:—
"Lucanum potes imputare terris.
Hoc plus quam Senecam dedisse mundo,
Aut dulcem geuerasse Gallionem.
Ut tollat refluos in astra fontes
Grajo nobilior Melete Bætis."
Genethliacon.
—Retrospective Review, vol. III.
[2]Retrospective Review, vol. III.
[3]Boutervek.
[4]"Through the decree of the fifth council of Toledo, each Gothic king swore, before he was crowned, to extirpate the Jews. Ferdinand and Isabella renewed the nefarious oath, and thus generated the spirit which caused Lope de Vega to recur with satisfaction to the old Gothic law:—
"The sceptre was denied of yore, "Vedando el consilio Toledano,
To the elected king, until he sworetomar el cetro al rey sinque primero
With his own royal handlimpiase el verdadero
To purge the fertile landtrigo con propria mano,
Of the vile tares that choke thede la cizana vil que le suprime
genuine grain,la Santa Ley en la corona inprime."
And write the holy law upon the
crown of Spain."