La quarta gente granada que navegan con buen norte, a quien es licencia dada de la vivienda en la Corte. Son aquellos que la mandan, y en pos de ellos se va la gente goloca, y algunos por los cabellos, aunque muestran otra cosa. Estos son, los que en la governacion tienen poder, y con ello harto cuydado y passion, pero al fin, con padecello se enriquecen: estos son los que parecen al mundo cosa divina, y les sirven y obedecen, con diligencia contina, muy crecida. [275] See page 131. [276] The only unadulterated source from which all authors have hitherto derived their information relative to the earliest history of the Spanish drama, is Cervantes’s well known preface to his _Ocho Comedias y Entremeses_, an edition of which was published in two vols. quarto, by Blas Nasarre, at Madrid, in 1749. To this may be added the preface of the editor, Blas Nasarre, though it is but of secondary value, and has given occasion to singular mistakes. The article _Comödie_, in Blankenburg’s appendix to Sulzer’s dictionary, though rather obscure, communicates some useful facts. [277] Velasquez, in his History of Spanish Poetry, alludes but very distantly to the heterogeneous nature of the Spanish dramas; and Dieze is not more satisfactory in his Remarks. What is contained in Flögel’s History of Comic Literature, vol. iv. respecting the origin of the Spanish drama, is copied from Velasquez and other modern writers. Signorelli has more novelty of information in his _Storia Critica de Teatri_, vol. iv. but he confounds the notices one with another, and reasons on the Spanish drama merely as a moral critic. [278] This translation, which is only remarkable on account of the reputation of its author, may be found in the _Obras del Maestro Perez de Oliva_, Cordova, 1586, in 4to. [279] Velasquez and Dieze, p. 315, give further notices of these translations. [280] See page 132. [281] _Tragedia Policiana, en que se tratan los amores--executadas por la industria de la diabolica Vieja Claudina, &c._ The title is a sufficient specimen of the work. See Velasquez and Dieze, p. 312. [282] Dieze in his Remarks on Velasquez, gives a further account of these works. He also notices a second Cœlestina, (_Segunda Comedia de Celestina_.) [283] These writers are Nicolas Antonio, and Blas Nasarre, the editor of the comedies of Cervantes.