Four Plays of Gil Vicente

It was a year of famine and plague at Lisbon. The fact that the verses addressed by Vicente to the Conde de Vimioso inform us that Vicente's household was down with the plague a...

Let us take advantage of Vicente's long silence to explain why it can be asserted so confidently that he was now at work on the Belem _custodia_. The burden of producing some de...

❧ COPILACAM DE TODALAS OBRAS DE GIL VICENTE, A QVAL SE REPARTE EM CINCO LIVROS O PRIMEYRO HE DE TODAS suas cousas de deuaçam. O segundo as comedias. O terceyro as tragicomedias....

The action of the _Auto dos Reis Magos_ is as simple as that of the two preceding plays. _Quem tem farelos?_ however is a quite new development. 'The argument,' says the rubric,...

_F._ Now despair I utterly, Yes, I am most desperate, And good and ill come all too late. For thy father has married thee 295 To Gonçalo, and desolate I here remain, alone, dese...

In Vicente's notes and sketches of the Portugal of his day we may see the master hand of the goldsmith accustomed to set jewels. His miniatures are so distinct and the types des...

_Pe._ She was up the dale Driving the herd--all in tatters her dress-- Out towards Cobelo's Vale. [_To the mule_] Be quiet there. The greedy brute. And yourself how do these tim...

77 In Basque _pastorales_ one of the main attributes of the devils and the wicked is that they are never quiet on the stage. In the _Auto da Cananea_ (1534), a play in many ways...

_F._ 2^o. Voume: vos não sois sentido, sois muy duro do pescoço, 710 não val isso nemigalha: pesame de ver perdido hum homem fidalgo ençosso, pois tem a vida na palha.

HERM. O casar Deos o prouee & de Deos vem a ventura, da ventura aa criatura 470 mas com dita he por merce & tambem serue a cordura. ¶ Pondevos nas suas mãos & não cureis descolh...

Princes of most noble worth, To whom high renown is given, Who, victorious on earth, Are beloved of God in Heaven, 5 I a priest am and my home Is Portugal, From the Sibyl's cave...

_Angel._ Therefore came I, nor in vain, Yet amain Must thou help me too, and humble Resist all: 14 Even all the world's debate Of riches and of vanity, Seek thou for grace, Sinc...

_Capelã._ ¶ Pois que nam posso rezar por me ver tão esquipado por aqui por este Arnado quero hum pouco passear por espaçar meu cuydado, e grosarey o romance de Yo me estaba en C...

429 Cf. the act of D. João de Castro (1500-48) as before him of Afonso de Albuquerque in pawning hairs of his beard, and the proverb _Queixadas sem barbas não merecem ser honrad...

[75] _Rol dos livros defesos_ (1551) ap. C. Michaëlis de Vasconcellos, _Notas Vicentinas_, I. p. 31. We might assume that the second part of _O Clerigo da Beira_ (III. 250-9) wa...

111 _St Jerome._ This second viand of noble worth, This delicacy, Must be slowly eaten by thee In contemplation Of what the Lord of all the earth In agony Sufferèd for thy salva...

ANJO. Oo alma despiadosa, perfiosa, quem vos deuesse fugir mais que guardar! 48 Pondes terra sobre terra, que esses ouros terra sam: oo senhor, porque permites tal guerra que de...

(87) F. DE ALMEIDA. _A Reforma protestante e as irreverencias de G. V._ in _Lusitana_, anno 1 (1914), p. 207-13; Repr. in _Historia da Igreja em Portugal_, vol. III, pt 2 (1917)...

Calderón (Pedro), xliv, li Camões (Luis de), xxv _Cananor_, xv _Cancioneiro da Vaticana_, xlii _Cancioneiro Geral_, ix, xiii, xxxvii, xlii, xliii, xlv _Candosa_, 80 _Caparica_,...