[339] Cf. _Carta_ 4: _Foge inda o dia ao muito diligente_, although whether this is due to his work or to the number of his friends is not clear. [340] _Com cujo_ [Miranda’s] _exemplo meu pai, que entam estaua nos estudos, pretendeo com a variedade destes sens manifestar como a lingua Portugueza assi em copia de palauras como em grauidade de estylo a nenhuma he inferior_ (Miguel Leite Ferreira, Preface to _Poemas Lvsitanos_, 1598). [341] To take an example not from the eclogues but from one of his sonnets, the words da guerra Nossa livres viveis em paz e em gloria correspond but ill to their peaceful sense. [342] Cf. _Carta_ 2. Bernardez (in an elegy on Ferreira’s death addressed to Andrade Caminha) records that among all Ferreira’s verses not a line was written in a foreign tongue: _um só nunca lhe deu em lingua alhea_. [343] Thirteen times the same subject is treated by Camões and Caminha, sometimes exclusively by them (C. Michaëlis de Vasconcellos, _Pero de Andrade Caminha_ (1901), p. 55). [344] _Obras_, ed. Priebsch, p. 361. [345] All that he wrote in Portuguese is contained in two pages (389-91) of Garcia Peres’ _Catálogo_ (1890). [346] Fray Bartolomé Ponce, _Primera Parte de la Clara Diana a lo divino_ (1582?): _Me dijeron como un muy amigo suyo le habia muerto por ciertos zelos ó amores_ (quoted by Ticknor, iii. 536, and by T. Braga (omitting _ciertos_), _Bernardim Ribeiro_ (1872), p. 80). [347] _Argumento desta obra._ [348] e.g. No mato o rosmaninho, a branca esteva, No campo o lirio azul que o chão cubria. [349] _Que estes se chamem poetas!_ rightly exclaims Frei Lucas de Santa Catharina (_Seram Politico_ (1704), p. 146) of those who revel in the use of _esdruxulos_. [350] The whole of Canto XIV is given to a vigorous account of the battle of Aljubarrota, already described more vividly in fewer stanzas by Camões. Another poem in _oitavas_ by Rodriguez Lobo, _Historia da Arvore Triste_, was published in _Fenix Renascida_, vol. iv. [351] In Spanish also are the fifty-six _romances_ which make up the poem _La Jornada_, &c. (1623), written on the coming of Philip III to Portugal in 1619. In the eclogues, written chiefly in _redondilhas_, he sings with spontaneous charm _as praticas humildes e os cuidados Não por arte fingidos e enfeitados_ of the _rusticos vaqueiros_, as he says in the prefatory sonnet. Many of the words are pleasantly indigenous: _milho_, _boroa_, _salgueiraes_, _rafeiro_, _charneca_, _chocalho_, _abegões_, _ovelheiros_. [352] For instance, when the Angel has announced in Spanish _las alegres nuevas_, the goatherd, _ratinho_, Mendo, says: _A din Rey, a din Rey ay! Que estou amorrinhentado, Acudame algum Cristom ou Sancristom._ Laureano, the shepherd, speaks Portuguese and Spanish, and Silvia says: _Porque o que sinto quisera Dizelo em bom Portugues._ An _Auto e Colloquio do Nascimento de Christo_ (1646) attributed to Francisco Lopes was reprinted in 1676.