Y con su buen burlar y su llaneza no sufrirà un momento tan ruin que en nuestro gran placer muestre tristeza. No faltera Geronimo Augustin con su saber sabroso y agradable, no menos que en romance en el latin: el qual con gravidad mansa y tratable Contando cosa bien por el notadas, nuestro buen conversar hará durable. Las burlas andaran por el mezeladas con las veras asi con tal razon que unas de otras serán bien ayudadas. En esto acudira el buen Monleon con el qual todos mucho holgarèmos, y nosotros y quantos con el son. El nos dirá, y nosotros gustaremos, el reira, y hara que nos riamos, Y en esto enfadarse ha de quanto harémos. Otras cosa habrá que las callamos, porque tan buenas son para hacerse que pierden el valor si las hablamos. Pero tiempo es en fin de recogerse, porque haya mas para otro mensagero, que si mi cuenta no ha de deshacerse no será, y os prometo, este el postrero."] GARCILASO DE LA VEGA 1503-1536. A poet of higher merit, a more interesting man, a hero, both in love and war, whose name seems to embody the perfect idea of Spanish chivalry, was Boscan's friend, Garcilaso de la Vega. We possess a translation of his poetry by Mr. Wiffen, who has appended an elaborate life, as elaborate at least as the scanty materials that remain could afford; for these are slight, and rather to be guessed at from slight allusions made by historians, and expressions in his poems, than from certain knowledge; as all that we really learn concerning him is, that he was a gallant soldier and a poet, devoting the leisure he could snatch from the hurry and alarm of war, to the study and composition of poetry, in which art he attained the name of prince, and is, indeed, superior to all the writers of his age in elegance, sweetness, and pathos.