T. Thank you, my lady.
I never did understand anything in the ‘Humours of this Court,’ and I never shall.
NOTES
THE CHRISTIAN CAPTIVES
This play, named after the chorus, is on the same subject as Calderon’s El Principe Constante, from which the little common to both plays is directly taken. Some of the differences are historic, but the most dramatic. Sala ben Sala, whose fine figure is substituted for Muley, is a famous warrior; and the whole story has this claim on English attention, that the Portuguese Regulus, Ferdinand, and his brother Henry, ‘the Navigator’ of more solid renown, were grandchildren of John of Gaunt, through his daughter Philippa, who was married to King Joam I. The history is shortly given in the King of Fez’s long speech, page 103, [line 120] et seq.
1886.