FRANCISCO GALVÃO (_c._ 1563-1635?), equerry to the Duke of Braganza, was a true poet if he wrote the sonnet _A Nosso Senhor_ ascribed to him by his editor, Antonio Lourenço Caminha, in _Poesias ineditas dos nossos insignes poetas Pedro da Costa Perestrello, coevo do grande Luis de Camões, e Francisco Galvão_ (1791): _Ó tu de puro amor Deos fonte pura_. Innocencio da Silva vigorously doubts the authenticity of these poems, which are mostly of a religious character or concerned with Horace’s theme of the golden mean, as that of the _Obras ineditas de Aires Telles de Meneses_ (1792) published by the same editor, who professed to have faithfully copied them from the _antigos originaes_ of the time of João II. Bernardez’ brother Frei AGOSTINHO DA CRUZ (1540-1619), born at Ponte da Barca, entered as a novice the Convent of Santa Cruz in the Serra de Sintra in 1560, and took the vows a year later. In 1605 he obtained permission to live as a hermit in the Serra da Arrabida, where he cultivated _saudade_ and the muses, although his poems were no longer profane, as when in his youth as Agostinho Pimenta he haunted with his brother Diogo the banks of the Lima. These early verses he burnt: _Queimei, como vergonha me pedia, Chorando par haver tão mal cantado_. The eclogues, elegies, letters, sonnets, and odes that survive prove that _mal_ is here a moral, not an aesthetic adverb, and that he shared his brother’s love of Nature and in no mean degree his power of expressing it in soft, harmonious verse.