[243] Carta de D. Juan de Austria al Rey, 19 de Febrero, 1570, MS.--Marmol, Rebelion de Granada, tom. ii. p. 253 et seq.--Mendoza, Guerra de Granada, p. 273.--Villafañe, Vida de Magdalena de Ulloa.--Vanderhammen, Don Juan de Austria, fol. 116, 117. [244] "Conforme á esto entenderá V. M. la poca costancia y aficion que tienen á la guerra, estos que la dejan al mejor tiempo sin poderles reprimir galeras, ni horca ni cuantas diligencias se hacen. Y plega á Dios que el amor de los hijos y parientes sea la causa y no miedo de los enemigos."--Carta de D. Juan de Austria al Rey, 19 de Febrero, 1570, MS. [245] Ibid. [246] "Que cada uno ha de hacer su oficio y no el general de soldado, ni el soldado el de general."--Carta del Rey á D. Juan de Austria, 24 de Febrero, 1570, MS. [247] One evidence of this is afforded by the frankness of his friend, Ruy Gomez de Silva. "La primera," he writes to Don John, "que por cuanto V. Ex.ª está reputado de atrevido y de hombre que quiere mas ganar crédito de soldado que de general, que mude este estilo y se deje gobernar."--(Carta de 4 de Marzo, 1570, MS.) It is to Don John's credit that, in his reply, he thanks Ruy Gomez warmly for his admonition, and begs his monitor to reprove him without hesitation, whenever he deems it necessary, since, now that his guardian is gone, there is no other who can take this liberty.--Carta de D. Juan de Austria á Ruy Gomez de Silva, MS. [248] According to Villafañe, Doña Magdalena left Madrid on learning her husband's illness, and travelled with such despatch that she arrived in time to receive his last sighs. Hita also speaks of her presence at his bedside. But as seven days only elapsed between the date of the knight's wound and that of his death, one finds it difficult to believe that this could have allowed time for the courier who brought the tidings, and for the lady afterwards, whether in the saddle or litter, to have travelled a distance of over four hundred and fifty miles, along execrable roads, with much of the way lying through the wild passes of the Alpujarras. [249] "Creemos piadosamente que el alma de D. Luis subiria al ciclo con el oloroso incienso que se quemó en los altares de S. Gerónimo, porque siempre habia empleado la vida en pelear contra enemigos de nuestra santa fé, y por último murió batallando con ellos como soldado valeroso."--Hita, Guerras de Granada, tom. ii. p. 487. [250] Carta del Rey á D. Juan de Austria, 3 de Marzo, 1570, MS. [251] The letter is translated by Stirling from a manuscript, entitled "Joannis Austriaci Vita, auctore Antonio Ossorio," in the National Library at Madrid.--See Cloister Life of Charles the Fifth (Am. ed.), p. 286.