[10] No less a person than the Attorney General wrote to Osuna of a prominent person at court, "Your Excellency may be quite sure of M. He wants a carpet; send him two, and pray God that some one else does not give him three."
[11] In the play there is a trifling anachronism according to which we are to believe that in 1643 Quevedo had not yet received this honor.
[12] The first volume of Fernández-Guerra's splendid edition appeared in 1852.
[13] I speak especially of Don Juan Perez de Guzman and Don Julio Nombela, both of whom have been kind enough to give me all the data at their disposal.
[14] Sem. Erud., III, pp. 1-62.
[15] Ibid., XV, pp. 215-245.
[16] It should be noted here that Quevedo's journey to Lisbon to bring back the proofs of Margarita's story is an ingenious fiction concocted by Sanz. In reality Quevedo was a prisoner in San Marcos de León.
[17] V de Junio de 1639; Sem. Erud., XXXI, p. 25.