[189] Demàs desto proveerse de vitualla, eligir lugar en la montaña donde guardalla, fabricar armas, reparar las que de mucho tiempo tenian escondidas, comprar nuevas, i avisar de nuevo a los Reyes de Argel, Fez, Señor de Tituan desta resolucion i preparaciones. [190] In the year 1737, that excellent critic Mayans, in allusion to Diego de Mendoza’s _Guerra de Granada_, observes:--Deve leerse, como el la escriviò. Quiere Dios que algun dia la publique yo! (_Orig. de la Lingua Española_, vol. i. p. 205). Thus even at that period a genuine edition, such as Mayans wished to superintend, could not be published. [191] Dieze, it is true, alledges the contrary, in his notes on Velasquez; but it appears that he was acquainted only with the pastoral poems, and not with the other works of Saa de Miranda. [192] These Spanish pastoral poems are mingled indiscriminately with the Portuguese poems of the same author, in the neatly printed edition of the _Obras do Doctor Francisco de Sà de Miranda, Lisboa_, 1784, in 2 vols. 8vo. No attention has been paid to the correction of the Spanish poems in this collection, and Portuguese words continually occur in them; for example, _as_ for _las_, _pensamentos_ for _pensamientos_, _outro_ for _otro_, &c. The orthography of the title-page is uncommon; for in other cases the Portuguese spelling is not _doctor_, but _doutor_, and _Sà_ is a modern substitution for _Saa_. [193] The following stanza may certainly claim a place in the best epic poem. Como el pino en el monte combalido Del impetuoso viento en la tormenta, A quantos que lo ven pone en recelo, Los truenos amenazan, arrebienta El fuego por las nuves, exlo erguido, Exlo coruo que vâ cayendo al suelo, Hasta tanto que el Cielo Se abre en llama ardiendo, Entre viendo, y no viendo, El bravo rayo en bueltas mil desciende, Aquel prostrero mal quien se defiende? Queda un tronco quemado, y cuento breve, A quien passa porende, O busca alli quiça que a casa lleve. [194] For example:-- Graciosamente estando, Graciosamente andando, Blando ayre respirava al prado ameno. Ella cantava, y juntamente el seno Inchiendose yva de diversas flores, En que el prado era lleno Sobre verde variado en mil colores. [195] For instance, the following passage in the second eclogue:--