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[14] _Os livros das obras que escritas vi_ (Letter of G. V. to King Joo III).

[15] 'E a.s.si mandou de Castella e outras partes vir muitos ouriveis para fazerem arreos e outras cousas esmaltadas.' (Garcia de Resende, _Cronica del Rei D. Joo II_, cap. 117.)

[16] _Bibliography_, Nos. 70, 71.

[17] He argues that Vicente was not old enough to be King Manuel's tutor, but in other pa.s.sages he is clearly in favour of the date 1460 or 1452. He is born 'considerably before' 1470 (_Revista de Historia_, t.

21, p. 11), in 1460? (_ib._ p. 27), in 1452? (_ib._ pp. 28, 31, and t.

22, p. 155), 'about 1460' (t. 22, p. 150), he is from two to seven years younger than King Manuel, born in 1469 (t. 21, p. 35). He is nearly 80 in 1531 (_ib._ p. 30). His marriage is placed between 1484 and 1492, preferably in the years 1484-6 (_ib._ p. 35).

[18] Gil Terron in the same year is _alegre y bien asombrado_ (I. 12).

[19] Cf. _Nao de Amores_ (1527), _Viejo, vuestro mundo es ido_, and II.

478 (1529).

[20] See A. Braamcamp Freire in _Revista de Historia_, t. 26, p. 123.

[21] _Grandes baxillas y pedraria_ (_Canc. Geral_, vol. III. (1913), p.

57).

[22] Cf. _Canc. Geral_, vol. I. (1910), p. 259:

Vejam huns autos Damado, Huu judeu que foi queimado No rressyo por seu mal.

[23] There is a slight confusion. The 'second night of the birth' of the rubric may mean the night following that of the birth (June 6-7), i.e.

the evening of June 7, or the second night _after_ the birth, i.e. the evening of June 8; but the former is the more probable.

[24] Damio de Goes, _Chronica do felicissimo Rey Dom Emanuel_, Pt I.

cap. 69.

[25] See A. Braamcamp Freire in _Revista de Historia_, vol. XXII.

(1917), p. 124 and _Critica e Historia_, vol. I. (1910), p. 325; Brito Rebello, _Gil Vicente_ (1902), p. 106-8.

[26] _Antologia de poetas liricos castellanos_, t. 7, p. clxiii.

[27] _Origenes de la Novela_, t. 3, p. cxlv.

[28] _Antol._ t. 7, p. clxvi.

[29] _Ib._ p. clxxvi.

[30] _Ib._ p. clxiv.

[31] Especially that of Garcia de Resende, who in one verse (185) of his _Miscellanea_ mentions the goldsmiths and in the next verse the plays of Gil Vicente.

[32] _Bibliography_, No. 45.

[33] Cf. his earlier studies, in favour of ident.i.ty, with his later works, maintaining cousinhood.

[34] Cf. _Obras_, I. 154 (Jupiter is the G.o.d of precious stones), I. 93, 286; II. 38, 46, 47, 210, 216, 367, 384, 405; III. 67, 70, 86, 296, etc.