orced the
king to abdicate and placed his son Ferdinand upon the
throne. It was believed that this change of rulers would
check French influence in the Peninsula, but Ferdinand was
forced by Napoleon into a position more servile than that
occupied formerly by Charles.

2. Note the free word-order in Spanish which permits, as
in this line, the subject to follow the verb, the object
to precede.

14. =Oceano=: note the omission of the accent on _e_, that
the word may rime with =soberano= and =vano=; but here
=oceano= still has four syllables.

=47.=--28. =tirano del mundo= = Napoleon Bonaparte.

=48.=--24. By =los colosos de oprobio y de vergueenza= are
probably meant Charles IV and Godoy.

=49.=--29. =hijo de Jimena=: see _Jimena_ and _Bernardo
del Carpio_, in _Vocab._

=50.=--2. =En... y=, _with a... and in_.

=51.=--Dionisio Solis y Villanueva (1774-1834) was born in
Cordova: he never rose higher in life than to be prompter
in a theater. He fought against the French, and he was
exiled for a time by Ferdinand VII. Solis wrote some plays
and translated many from other languages into Spanish. The
best that can be said of Solis as a poet is that his work
is spontaneous and in parts pleasing. Cf. Blanco Garcia,
I, 50 and 61-63; Valera, _Florilegio_, V, 44-46.

=53.=--18-19. =Esta... enfermedad= = _esta dulce deliciosa
enfermedad que yo siento_.
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25. si puede (here meaning _if it is possible_) is
understood before =que trate=.

=54.=--Juan Nicasio Gallego (1777-1853) was born at
Zamora. He was ordained a priest: later he went to court,
and was appointed Director of His Majesty's Pages. He
frequented the salon of his friend Quintana, and was
elected deputy from Cadiz. In 1814, during the reign of
Ferdinand VII, Gallego was imprisoned for his liberal
ideas and later was banished from Spain. He spent some
years in France and returned to Spain in 1828. Later he
was appointed Perpetual Secretary of the Spanish Academy.

See _Introduction_, p. xxxii; Blanco Garcia, I, 13 f.;
Valera, _Florilegio_, V, 38-44. His poems are in vol. 67
of the _Bibl. de Aut. Esp._ There is also an edition of
his poems by the Academia de la Lengua, Madrid, 1854.

=El Dos de Mayo=: on the second of May, 1808, the Spanish
people, unarmed and without strong leaders, rose against
Napoleon's veteran troops. Aided by the English, they
drove out the French after a long an