[139] The first edition is in small duodecimo, (Madrid, 1614), 80 leaves; better printed, I think, than any other of his works that were published under his own care. Little but the opening is imitated from Cesare Caporali’s “Viaggio in Parnaso,” which is only about one fifth as long as the poem of Cervantes. The most interesting part is the fourth chapter, in which he slightly notices the works he has himself written,[140] and complains, with a gayety that at least proves his good-humor, of the poverty and neglect with which they have been rewarded.[141] It may be difficult, perhaps, to draw a line between such feelings as Cervantes here very strongly expresses, and the kindred ones of vanity and presumption; but yet, when his genius, his wants, and his manly struggles against the gravest evils of life are considered, and when to this are added the light-heartedness and simplicity with which he always speaks of himself, and the indulgence he always shows to others, few will complain of him for claiming with some boldness honors that had been coldly withheld, and to which he felt that he was entitled. [140] Among them he speaks of many ballads that he had written:-- Yo he compuesto Romances infinitos, Y el de los Zelos es aquel que estimo Entre otros, que los tengo por malditos. c. 4. All these are lost, except such as may be found scattered through his longer works, and some which have been suspected to be his in the Romancero General. Clemencin, notes to his ed. of Don Quixote, Tom. III. pp. 156, 214. Coleccion de Poesías de Don Ramon Fernandez, Madrid, 1796, 8vo, Tom. XVI. p. 175. Mayans, Vida de Cervantes, No. 164. [141] Apollo tells him, (Viage, ed. 1784, p. 55),-- “Mas si quieres salir de tu querella, Alegre y no confuso y consolado, Dobla tu capa y siéntate sobre ella. Que tal vez suele un venturoso estado, Quando le niega sin razon la suerte, Honrar mas merecido que alcanzado.” “Bien parece, Señor, que no se advierte,” Le respondí, “que yo no tengo capa.” El dixo: “Aunque sea así, gusto de verte.”