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ftyled the greater failed ; and the common 
art arofe in the kingdoms of Gallicia and 
Portugal, where without doubt this fcience 
flourifhes more than in any part of Spain; 
infomuch that all our poets and trouba- 
dours*, though of Caftille, Andalufia, or 
Eftremadura, compefed all their works 
in Gallician or Portuguefe. And from 
them we alfo receive the terms of art as 
Maefiria mayor ¢ menor: encadenados, lex- 
apren, é manfobre. 
I remembe : moft magnificent lord, to 
have feen, when I was a youth, in the 
hands of my grandmother, Donna Mencia 
de Cifneros, among other books, a large 
volume of Portuguefe and Gallician Caz- 
tigas, Servanas, and Decires, of which the 
greater part were by the king Don Dionis 
of Portugal. I believe, my lord, he was 
your great grandfather: and He works 
are applauded by all who read them, for 
their fubtile invention, and graceful and 
{weet language. Some there were by Johan 
Soarez of Pavia, who died, as is faid, 
in Gallicia, for love of an Tafanes GoPor 
tugal. Others by Fernant Gonzalez of 
Sanebria. Aiter them followed Bafco 
Perez of Camoes, Fernant Cafquicio, and 
that great innamorato Macias, of whoin 
we have only four fongs, amorous, and 
replete with beautiful fentences. 
In this kingdom of Caftille, the king 
Don Alonzo, the Wife, was an excellent 
poet; fome fay he compofed well in Latin. 
Next are Don Juan de la Cerda, and Pero 
Gonzalez of Mendoza my grandfather, 
who wrote good fongs; fuch as, among 
others, Pero te firvo fiz arte, and A las 
ribevas de un vio. He ufed a kind of 
Scenic manner, like Plautus or Terence. 
About the fame time the Jew Rabbi 
Santo wrote his Proverbs. Altonfo Gon- 
zalez of Caftro alfo wrote fome good 
fongs. After them, in the time of king 
John, was the Archdean of Toro, and 
Garci Fernandez of Gerena. 
Then, in the reign of Don Henry, fa- 
ther of our prefent king, this fcience 
began to difplay greater elegance. Al- 
fonio Alvarez of Illiefcas was a great 
poet; his pieces are very numerous. 
Francifco Imperial I fhall not ftyle a Dect- 
dor, or troubadour, but a poet, as he 
excelled all thofe of our weftern regions. 
He compofed on the birth of our king 
that famous decir, Lx dos feteceentos; and 
many other elegant pieces. 
My uncles, Don Pedro Velez, and 
Fernant Perez de Guzman, are tolerable 
peets. My brother-in-law, the magni- 

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# Decidores € trovadores, 
> 
Perfonifications in Poetry. 
{ Dec. 
ficent Duke of Arjona, is himfelf a verfi- 
fier; and maintains in his houfe three great 
troubadeurs, Porto-Carrero, Gayofo, and 
Morana. I pafs thofe of our own times, 
already known to you: and have indeed 
written too long a letter, confidering my 
age, and the turbulenée of the times ; 
but my love of the fubjeét muft be my 
excufe. The Cifalpin Gallicians, and 
thefe of Aquitain, fignalize themfelves by 
the honours they render to this art and 
its profeffors: but I muft refer you for 
fome account of thefe honours to the pro-— 
logue of my Proverbs. N.N. 
Seema 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ON PERSONIFICATIONS IN POETRY. 
(Continued from page 263.) 
USPICION is thus perfonified by 
Spencer. 
But he was foul, ill-favoured and grim, 
Under his eye-brows looking fill afkance ; 
And ever as Diffemblance laught on him, 
He lour’d on her with dangerous eye-glansey 
Shewing his nature in his countenance : 
His rolling eyes did never reft in place, 
But walk’d each where for fear of hid mife 
chance, 
Holding alattice ftill before his face, 
Thro’ which he fill did peep, as forward he 
did pace. Fu Qvale Bee 
There is nothing emblematical in this 
portrait, Eo: the lattice carried by the 
figure, which is a iymbol familiarized by 
the cuftoms of various nations. ‘The 
louring of Sufpicion at the fmiles of his 
companion, Diffimulation, and his dark 
ever rolling eyes, are well conceived, and 
vigoroufly expr effed. 
A perfonification of JEALOUSY is given 
by Spenfer, which is remarkable fora fort 
of metamorpholis, fo managed, that the 
real igure of a jealous man changes al- 
wo imperceptibly into a preternatural 
being. The wife of the old Mablbecce 
eloping from hin, he follows her into the 
- woods, where fhe is pafling her time to 
her fatisfaétion among the fatyrs. Not 
being able to prevail on her to return with 
him, and having likewife loft his buried 
treafure, he falls into a fit of phrenfy and 
defpair, in which he throws nes from 
the brow of a rock over-hanging the fea. 
But he was fo waited with anxiety and 
arenas, that nothing material was left 
of him; fo that he received no harin from 
his fall. He crawls up among the cliifs, 
and finds a cave, where he fixes his refi- 
dence, in darknefs, and continua! appre~ 
henfion, left the rock fhould bury tim 
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