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in the present edition are, so far as the editor is aware, to be 
found in print elsewhere. They are: 
Ay, dulce sueno y dulce sentimiento {in Revue Hispanique, 
VI, 380-381) 
El oy me mata, en la manana espero (in Revue His- 
panique , XVIII, 530) 
Linan, el pecho noble solo estima (in Bib, Aut, Esp.y 
XXXVIII, 376) 
No heres nieue que fueras derretida (in Revue His- 
panique, VI, 384) 
It is, of course, altogether probable that other compositions 
in the collection are to be found in print elsewhere. The bulk 
of Spanish seventeenth-century verse is great and much of it 
is available only in volumes not easily accessible. The editor 
hopes, however, that he has not sinned too grievously in the 
matter of reproducing material already available and he be- 
speaks for himself the indulgence of the reader where such 
instances may be noted. 
The primary purpose of the present edition is to make ac- 
cessible to students of Spanish literature an interesting and 
valuable anthology of seventeenth-century poetry. Conse- 
quently, in conformity with that purpose, speculation as to 
authorship and theorizing about motives, while perhaps in- 
teresting and perhaps useful also — in their place — are not 
called for in the present instance. The collection speaks for 
itself. The dedication to Hernan Cortes, Marques del Valle, 
serves to attract attention to it and gives rise to interesting 
conjectures, but the body of the work, garnered from various 
sources, in no wise sheds additional light on the great con- 
quistador. The collection is one of poesias artisticas, valu- 
able for their artistry and valuable for conserving in unique 
versions some compositions that serve well to illustrate cer- 
tain contemporary pieces of literature. This we may show on 
another occasion. 
In the present edition we have endeavored to reproduce 
faithfully the spellings of the manuscript, adopting no varia- 
tion except to print ce, ci, instead of ge, gi. Even that peculi- 
arity has been retained in La uida del picaro. In the matter 
of introducing or suggesting emendations we have striven to 
exercise restraint, since in works of this kind it has seemed 
