Suspendese confuso o Castelhano De ver de Portugal o brio ouzado, E guarnecendo a praça, troca ufana O trofeo em cuidado; Retirarse procura, Porem o Luzo altivo A batalha o provoca vingativo; A hum monte se encomenda cautelozo; Azas o Luzo veste bellicozo, Hum comete feroz, outro reziste, Este se anima, aquelle cahe por terra, Tudo he mal, tudo he pena, tudo he guerra, Que neste duro empenho de Mavorte Reina a ira, arde o fogo, impéra a morte. [324] Besides the _Fenix renascida_, which contains an account of most of the Portuguese sonneteers of the seventeenth century, there is a later, but upon the whole a much worse collection of the same sort, which comprises only two volumes, though it extends beyond the close of the eighteenth century. It is entitled:--_Eccos que o clarim da Fama dà; Postilhaõ de Apollo, &c._ (Echos which resound from the trumpet of Fame, or the Postillion of Apollo.) The title is still longer, and the remainder is in still worse taste. The collection was published at Lisbon in the year 1761. [325] _Retiro de cuidados, e vida de Carlos e Rosaura, composto pelo Padre Matheus Ribeyro, &c._ Lisb. 1688. 4 parts in 2 vol. oct. [326] _Seram politico, abuso emendado, &c. por Felix da Castanheira Turacem._ Lisb. 1704, in 4to. Some of the certificates of the Censors, which are printed with this work, are dated in 1695. In old Portuguese the word _Politico_, signifies all that belongs to polite manners. Hence Rodriguez Lobo’s works are entitled, _Obras politicas_, see page 227. _Seram_ or _seraõ_ properly signifies the place where an evening party, for some period, regularly assembles.--Felix de Castanheira’s name does not occur in Machado’s dictionary of learned men. [327] Escrevo entre o rasteiro, et o empolado, que saõ o Scilla, et Charibdes no vasto mar da locuçaõ: algumas vezes me detenho a fazer aquada no esprayado da digressão; mas faço quanto posso por naõ perder de vista o difficil porto da clareza; com alguma me vou explicando, _sed libera nos à metaphora_. [328] The following passage, which will serve as an example, is the description of the fair Isabella, an intelligent young lady, who sustains a principal character in these evening parties.