icism are in vols. 5, 7, 20 and 61 of the _Bibl. de
Aut. Esp._

3. =riyendo= = _riendo_.

=61.=--Angel de Saavedra, Duque de Rivas (1791-1865) was
born at Cordova. He prepared for a military career. By
reason of his liberal ideas he was compelled to leave
Spain and went to England, France and the Island of Malta.
He returned to Spain in 1834 and became a cabinet page 271
minister, but was again forced to flee the country. Later
he was welcomed back and represented Spain at Naples. He
retired from politics and was appointed Director of the
Spanish Academy.

See _Introduction_, p. xxxvi; Blanco Garcia, I, 129-153;
Juan Valera, _Florilegio_, V, 184-195. His _Obras
completas_, in 5 vols., were published by the Spanish
Academy, Madrid, 1854-1855, with introductory essays by
Pastor Diaz and Canete. His works were also published in
the _Coleccion de Escritores castellanos_, 1894-.

4. =De... pro= = _en pro de mi sangre y casa_.

=62.=--3. =a la que=: translate, _before which_.

10. =duque de Borbon= is the subject of =estaba=, l. 3.

18. =Emperador= = Charles V.

=64.=--8. =Condestable= = Velasco, Constable of Spain, who
in 1521 defeated the _comuneros_ who had rebelled against
the rule of Charles V.

=65.=--22. =Y con los que=, _with whom_.

23. =estrecho= stands in antithesis to =ancho=: _for his
glory the broad world will be narrow_.

=66.=--18-19. =Y... leonesa= = _y un coleto a la leonesa
de recamado ante_.

=68.=--20-21. =Que... resuelta= = _que es voluntad suya
resuelta (el) que aloje a Borbon_.

=69.=--22. =de un su pariente= is archaic. The regular
expression to-day would be _de un pariente suyo_.

=71.=--Juan Arolas (1805-1849) was born in Barcelona, but
spent most of his life in Valencia. In 1821, when sixteen
years old, Arolas, much against the wishes of his parents,
joined a monastic order. Arolas wrote in all the literary
genres of his time, but he distinguished himself most as a
poet by his romantic "oriental" and love poems.

Cf. _El P. Arolas, su vida y sus versos_, Madrid, 1898, by
Jose R. Lomba y Pedraja; Blanco Garcia, I, 186-189; Juan
Valera, _Florilegio_, V, 121-130. A new edition page 272
of Arolas' verses was published at Valencia in 1883.

=73.=--Jose de Espronceda (1808-1842), Spain's greatest
romantic poet, was born in Almendralejo (Badajoz). At
the Colegio de San Mateo Espronceda was considered a
precocious but wayward pupil. His poetic gifts won