An exceedingly doleful jest (in four volumes) was published at the end of the eighteenth century under the title of _Zumbas con que el famoso Juan de Espera en Dios, hijo de Millan, y sobrino de Juan de Buen Alma, acude á dar vayas, bregas y chascas con los alegres gracejos y salados períodos de la divertida série de su graciosa vida á la melancolía y sus macilentos contertulios en los desvanes de los desagrados aprehensivos donde intentan anidarse; las que traducidas del Español al Castellano irá dando á luz el Jueves de cada semana Don Joseph de Santos Capuano, según se las deparó la feliz casualidad á su hermano Don Santiago, y este se las raya remitiendo á Madrid, en gracia, obsequio, y para honesto recreo de los sencillos y claros labradores, y de los muy honrados y prudentes comerciantes, fabricantes, artesanos, menestrales, etc., aplicados y leales vasallos de S.M. á quienes se las dedica_ (Madrid, 1799). The prolix humorist who wrote this work declares (vol. i., p. 26) that the name was first applied to a certain Andrés Quixano Cerro--of Tirteafuera, no mean city, and one familiar to readers of _Don Quixote_, if not to geographers. This worthy is alleged to have supported the Moorish forays with pious fortitude, and to have remarked: "Obremos en nuestra defensa lo que dicte la razón en esta necesidad sin temer, y _esperemos en Dios_." His holy calm so edified his neighbours that they ceased using the name of Quixano Cerro and substituted Andrés de Espera en Dios in its stead. All of which may be believed or not, as the reader chooses.--J. F.-K. BOOK III. The joyful uproar there was that night in the village, on the occasion of Daranio's wedding, did not prevent Elicio, Thyrsis, Damon and Erastro from settling down together in a place where, without being disturbed by anyone, Silerio might continue the story he had begun, and he, when all together had given him pleasing silence, continued in this wise: