Portuguese literatureBell, Aubrey F. G. (Aubrey Fitz Gerald)
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Portuguese literature
Bell, Aubrey F. G. (Aubrey Fitz Gerald)
Portuguese literature -- History and criticism
os lavradores
Fazem os filhos paçãos,
Cedo não ha de haver villãos:
Todos d’ El Rei, todos d’ El Rei (_Farsa dos Almocreves_).
[295] Cf. the _balho vylam ou mourisco_ which cost Abul his gold
chain in the _Cancioneiro Geral_, and Lopo de Almeida’s third letter,
from Naples: _Mandaram bailar meu sobrinho com Beatriz Lopez o baylo
mourisco e despois o vilão_. A century after Vicente the shepherds’
dances are but a memory: _as danças e bailios antigamente tão usados
entre os pastores_ (Faria e Sousa, _Europa Portuguesa_, vol. iii, pt.
4).
[296] Cf. _Ulysippo_, iii. 6: _aquellas mayas que punhão, aquellas
lampas, aquellas alvoradas_, and D. Francisco de Portugal, _Prisoens e
Solturas de hũa Alma_: _Ines_ [of Almada] _moça de cantaro, a gabadinha
dos ganhõis do lugar, requestada da velanao dos barbeiros, a cuja porta
nunca faltou Mayo florido em dia de Santiago nem ramos verdes com
perinhas no de S. João a que os praticos daquella noute chamão lampas._
[297] _Á morte d’ El Rei D. Manoel._
[298] His occasional coarseness is popular, rustic, and as a rule
contrasts favourably with that of the _Cancioneiro Geral_.
[299] For a list containing about a hundred see T. Braga, _Eschola de
Gil Vicente_, p. 545, or the _Diccionario Universal_, vol. i (1882), p.
1884, s.v. _Auto_.
[300] _Flores de España_, cap. 5.
[301] _Bib. Nova_, ii. 158. Elsewhere he speaks of him as _poetae
comoediarum suo tempore celebratissimi_, and in the Appendix says:
_cuius comoedias Lusitani admodum celebrant_. But after the sixteenth
century Vicente was little more than a name. Faria e Sousa could
say that his plays had been esteemed [_con_] _poquísima causa_ (the
accidental omission of the _con_ led to the invention _poquísima
cosa_); and a learned Coimbra professor, Frei Luis de Sotomaior, caught
reading _as semsaborias de Gil Vicente, que em seus tempos foi mui
celebrado_, felt bound to be apologetic: _Aurum colligo ex stercore_
(Francisco Soares Toscano, _Parallelos de Principes_ (Evora, 1623), f.
159).
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_Lyric and Bucolic Poetry_
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