[392] They were considered out of place in a comedy. The Catalogue of 1581 condemns _todos os mais tratados onde se aplicam, vsurpam & torcem as autoridades & sentenças da sancta escriptura a sentidos profanos, graças, escarnios, fabulas, vaidades, lisonjarias, detracções, superstições, encantações & semelhantes cousas_. The rules were carried out most mechanically. [393] Green eyes are beloved by Portuguese writers for their rarity or from an early mistaken rendering of the French _vair_ (e.g. Sylvia in the sixteenth, Joaninha in the nineteenth century). The _glosadores_ inclined to them on account of the second person of the infinitive ‘to see’: _verdes_. [394] In Arraez, _Dialogos_ (1604), f. 311 v. fashionable women _parecem ... velas de nao inchadas_. [395] In the first edition she had been called a _beata_. In that of 1618 she became merely a widow woman, _dona viuva_, but the editor defeated the censor’s intentions by noting the change in the preface and declaring that but for this she remained exactly the same as before. [396] Here the doctors, not the lawyers, are _conjurados contra o mundo_. [397] Cf. the brief but eloquent praises of wine and of love. [398] One might be inclined to place it later were not the Infante Luis (†November 27, 1555) still alive. [399] _Um largo discurso da cortesania vulgar_, f. 178 v. Cf. f. 5: _pretende mostraruos ao olho o rascunho da vida cortesaã_. On f. 5 v. it is called _esta selada_ _Portuguesa_. The courtiers spend all the time they can spare from the pursuit of love in discussing the rival merits of the _romance velho_ and new-fangled sonnet, of Boscán and Garci Lasso, of Spanish and Portuguese, a line of a Latin poet, &c. [400] _O amor é portugues_ (_Aulegrafia_, f. 38 v.). § 4 _Luis de Camões_