_; others are in vols.
16 and 35. There is a _Life_ in English by H.A. Rennert
(1904). Cf. also _Introduction_, p. xxiv.

=Cancion de la Virgen= is a lullaby sung by the Madonna
to her sleeping child in a palm grove. The song occurs
in Lope's pastoral, _Los pastores de Belen_ (1612). In
Ticknor (II, 177), there is a metrical translation of the
_Cancion_.

The palm has great significance in the Roman
Catholic Church. On Palm Sunday,--the last Sunday of
Lent,--branches of the palm-tree are blessed and are
carried in a solemn procession, in commemoration of the
triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem (cf. John, xii).

14. Ticknor translates these lines as follows:

Holy angels and blest,
Through these palms as you sweep,
Hold their branches at rest,
For my babe is asleep.
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The literal meaning is: _Since you are moving among the
palms, holy angels, hold the branches, for my child
sleeps_. When the wind blows through the palm-trees their
leaves rustle loudly.

=14.=--=Manana=: translated by Longfellow (Riverside ed.,
1886, VI, 204).

=15.=--Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645),
the greatest satirist in Spanish literature, was one of
the very few men of his time who dared criticize the
powers that were. He was born in the province of Santander
and was a precocious student at Alcala. His brilliant mind
and his honesty led him to Sicily and Naples, as a high
official under the viceroy, and to Venice and elsewhere
on private missions; his plain-speaking tongue and
ready sword procured him numerous enemies and therefore
banishments. He was confined in a dungeon from 1639 to
1643 at the instance of Olivares, at whom some of his
sharpest verses were directed.

Quevedo was a statesman and lover of his country driven
into pessimism by the ineptitude which he saw about him.
He wrote hastily on many subjects and lavished a bitter,
biting wit on all. His best-known works in prose are the
picaresque novel popularly called _El gran tacano_ (1626)
and the _Suenos_ (1627). His _Obras completas_ are in
course of publication at Seville (1898-); his poems are in
vol. 69 of the _Bibl. de Aut. Esp._ Cf. E. Merimee, _Essai
sur la vie et les oeuvres de Francisco de Quevedo_ (Paris,
1886), and _Introduction_, p. xxv. For a modern portrayal
of one side of Quevedo's character, see Breton de los
Herreros, ?_Quien es ella_?

=Epistola satiric