[82] The library of the University of Göttingen contains a copy of this old edition, entitled:-- Compliaçam de todalas obras de _Gil Vicente_ &c.--Empremiose em a muy nobre e sempre leal cidade de Lisboa, anno 1562, in folio. The complete title may be found in Dieze’s edition of Velasquez, p. 87. The text of the dramas is printed in gothic characters, but the introduction which precedes each piece is printed in the modern roman type. In the dramas themselves the Portuguese and Spanish languages are indiscriminately employed, and though the introductions are chiefly written in Portuguese, some of them are also in Spanish. I know of no later edition of Gil Vicente’s works. Barbosa Machado mentions none of subsequent date. How can the Portuguese public so completely forget an old favourite? Only a few of Gil Vicente’s Autos were printed singly in the seventeenth century. [83] See the History of Spanish Literature, p. 282. [84] He does not merely use the words--“por ser _cousa nova_;” but he expressly says--“por ser _cousa nova em Portugal_.” [85] See the History of Spanish Literature, p. 130. [86] The _Santa Fè_ speaks and the peasant _Bras_ (Blas) replies as follows. The old orthography is, with the exception of filling up some contractions, preserved in this and the following passages, quoted from the Autos of Gil Vicente. _Fè._ A diuinal claridade Seja em vosso entendimento et vos dee conhecimento de sua natauidade. _Bras._ Mas quiem sos vos o quiem seres? _Fè._ Pastores eu sam a fee. _Bras._ Ablenhuncio satanhe, Sa nhi fee nho see que ses. _Fè._ Fee ha crer o que nam vemos pella gloria que esperamos, amar o que nam comprendemos nem vimos nem conhecemos pera que saluos sejamos. _Bras._ Aora lo entiendo menos. Rellata esso mas claro, que perjuro a santo Amaro que nhi punto os entendemos, &c. [87] The Seraph’s proclamation is in old _versos de arte mayor_, with the middle and ending lines short:-- Aa feyra, aa feyra y grejas mostreyros, pastores das almas, papas adormidos compray aqui panos, muday os vestidos, buscay as çamarras dos outros primeyros: os antecesseros, feiray o caram que trazeis dourado, oo presidentes do crucificado lembrayuos da vida dos sanctos pastores do tempo passado. Oo principes altos, imperio facundo guardayuos da yra do Senhor dos ceos, compray grande soma do temor de Deos na feyra da Virgem Senhora do mundo, exemplo da paz. Pastora dos anjos, luz das estrelas, aa feyra da Virgem donas et donzelas, porque este mercados sabey que aqui traz as cousas mais belas. &c. [88] The Devil speaks as follows:--