Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) [Illustration: FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO VILLEGAS VELASQUEZ. PINXT. AUTOGRAVURE] PABLO DE SEGOVIA THE SPANISH SHARPER TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL OF FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO-VILLEGAS ILLVSTRATED WITH ONE HVNDRED AND TEN DRAWINGS BY DANIEL VIERGE TOGETHER WITH COMMENTS ON THEM BY JOSEPH PENNELL AND AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF QUEVEDO BY HENRY EDWARD WATTS _LONDON_ Printed by UNWIN BROTHERS at the _Gresham Press_ for T FISHER UNWIN and Published by him at 11 _Paternoster Buildings_ 1892 CONTENTS. PAGE COMMENTS ON THE DRAWINGS OF DANIEL URRABIETA VIERGE, AND ALSO A LETTER FROM THE ARTIST iii QUEVEDO AND HIS WORKS: WITH AN ESSAY ON THE PICARESQUE NOVEL xv BOOK I. CHAP. I. Giving an Account of Who he is and Whence he Sprung 3 CHAP. II. How I went to School, and what Happened to me there 8 CHAP. III. How I went to a Boarding School in quality of Servant to Don Diego Coronel 17 CHAP. IV. Of my Convalescence, and Departure for the University of Alcalá de Henares 32 CHAP. V. Of our entrance into Alcalá, of the Footing we had to pay, and the Tricks they played upon us 41 CHAP. VI. Of the wicked old Housekeeper, and the first knavish pranks I played at Alcalá 51 CHAP. VII. How I received news of my Father's Death, parted from Don Diego, and what Course of Life I resolved on for the future 69 CHAP. VIII. My Journey from Alcalá to Segovia, and what Happened by the way till I came to Rejas, where I lay that Night 75 CHAP. IX. Of what Happened to me on the road to Madrid with a Poet 89 CHAP. X. Of what I did at Madrid, and what Happened to me on my way to Cerecedilla, where I passed the Night 95 CHAP. XI. The kind Entertainment I had at my Uncle's, the Visits I received; how I recovered my Inheritance and returned to Madrid 111 CHAP. XII.