[47]Araucana, canto XXXVII.
[48]Avisos para Palacio, p. 194.
[49]Most of the celebrated Spanish dramatists (Lope de Vega, Calderon, Moreto, and others,) became clergymen in their old age, and deplored that they had written for the stage.
[50]Araucana, canto XXXVII.
[51]Vol. II. p. 199.
[52]Quarterly Review, II.
[53]Voltaire, Essai sur la Poësie Epique, liv. 8. Raynouard, p. 406.
[54]Bouterwek, Hist. of Spanish Literature, trans, Lond. 1823, p. 412.