These lines are dictated by the same feeling, which prompted Cervantes’s last poetical address (in anticipation of death) to the great Conde de Lemos:
Puesto ya el pié en el estribo,
Con las ansias de la muerte,
Gran Señor, esta te escribo.
X. “Soon in Rey a noble foeman knew:”
The French Governor of San Sebastian.
XI. “’Neath rapid Ocean’s amorous embrace.”
Labitur ripâ, Jove non probante,
Uxorius amnis.
Horat. Carm. i. 2.