[84] Sr. Asensio y Toledo has suggested (_Cervantes y sus obras_, pp. 382-386) that Cervantes's reference in _Don Quixote_ to Bernardo González de Bobadilla's _Nimphas y Pastores de Henares_, a pastoral published at Alcalá in 1587, denotes some irritation against one whom he possibly regarded as a poacher. What really happened was that, during the diverting and important scrutiny of the Knight's library, the Barber came upon González de Bobadilla's book, together with Bernardo de la Vega's _Pastor de Iberia_ and Bartolomé López de Enciso's _Desengaño de los celos_. The Priest directed the Barber to "hand them over to the secular arm of the housekeeper, and ask me not why, or we shall never have done." On the strength of this, some genial contemporaries seem to have charged Cervantes with being jealous of these obscure writers. Cp. the passage in the _Viaje del Parnaso_:-- Ni llamado, ni escogido Fué el gran pastor de Iberia, el gran BERNARDO Que DE LA VEGA tiene el apellido. Fuiste envidioso, descuidado y tardo, Y á las ninfas de Henares y pastores, Como á enemigo les tiraste un dardo. Y tienes tu poetas tan peores Que estos en tu rebaño, que imagino Que han de sudar si quieren ser mejores. (cap. iv. ter. 169-171.) [85] As Cervantes intended to dedicate the new _Don Quixote_ (and, presumably, the new _Galatea_) to the Conde de Lemos, he may very naturally have thought that it would be out of place to mention either of these works in the dedication of the _Viaje del Parnaso_ to Rodrigo de Tapia. But the short address to the reader gave him the opportunity which no one used more cleverly--when he had any announcement to make. Moreover, he had another excellent opening when he referred to the _Galatea_ in the text of the _Viaje del Parnaso_: Yo corté con mi ingenio aquel vestido Con que al mundo la hermosa Galatea Salió para librarse del olvido. (cap. iv. ter. 5.) [86] " ...luego yra el gran Persiles, y luego las semanas del jardín, y luego la segunda parte de la Galatea, si tanta carga pueden lleuar mis ancianos ombros." [87] Lemos's liking for the _Galatea_ is mentioned in the Letter Dedicatory to _Persiles y Sigismunda_: "si a dicha, por buena ventura mía, que ya no sería ventura, sino milagro, me diesse el cielo vida, las (_i.e._ Semanas del Jardín y Bernardo) verá y con ellas fin de la Galatea, de quien se està aficionado Vuessa Excelencia...." [88] See vol. iv. of the present edition (Glasgow, 1901), p. 8. [89] See note (2) above.