[564] See his prefatory letter in the _Trabalhos_. Cf. Antonio, _Bib. Nova_, ii. 307. Barbosa Machado speaks of _hũa horrivel masmorra_. [565] Cf. p. 39 (1666 ed.): _Ó, ó, ó amor; ó, ó, ó amor, cale a lingua e o entendimento, dilatai-vos vos por toda esta alma_, &c.; or p. 54: _Ah, ah, ah bondade; ah, ah amor sem lei, sem regra, sem medida, adoro-te, louvo-te, desejo-te, por ti suspiro._ [566] He also wrote _Oratorio sacra de soliloquios do amor divino_ (1628) and various works in Latin. Manuel Godinho refers to his _Estimulo das Missões_ (_Relação_, 1842 ed., p. 47). [567] C. Castello Branco, _Estrellas propicias_, 2ᵃ ed., p. 204. Its only fault, artistically, is the detailed description of the commemoration festivities, which come as an anticlimax. [568] Other works of the period are similarly read rather for their style than as history, as the _Historia Ecclesiastica da Igreja de Lisboa_ (1642) and the _Historia Ecclesiastica dos Arcebispos de Braga_ (2 pts., 1634, 1635) by D. RODRIGO DA CUNHA (1577-1643), the Archbishop of Lisbon who had an active share in the liberation of Portugal from the yoke of Spain in 1640. [569] Another renowned Court preacher was D. ANTONIO PINHEIRO (†1582?), Bishop of Miranda, whose works were collected by Sousa Farinha: _Collecção das obras portuguesas do sabio Bispo de Miranda e de Leiria_, 2 vols., 1785, 6. [570] e. g. _officio e dignidade, gritos e brados, boca e lingoa, cuidão e imaginão_. Macedo (_O Couto_, p. 82) rightly calls Ceita _um dos principaes textos em lingua portugueza_. [571] Other noted preachers were the Jesuits FRANCISCO DO AMARAL (1593-1647), who published the first (and only) volume of his _Sermões_ (1641) in the year in which Vieira came to Portugal, and FRANCISCO DE MENDONÇA (1573-1626), a master of clear and vigorous prose in his two volumes of _Sermões_ (1636, 9); and the Trinitarian BALTASAR PAEZ (1570-1638), whose _Sermões de Quaresma_ (2 pts., 1631, 3), _Sermões da Semana Santa_ (1630), _Marial de Sermões_ (1649), may still be read with profit. [572] _Ha poucos annos que he arribado_ (the Inquisition in Portugal), Pt. 3, 1908 ed., f. xxxii. [573] See p. 5 of _Prologo_: Portuguese is _a lingoa que mamei_, but his _passados_ are from Castile. [574] The inhabitants of the Peninsula are _astutos e maliciosos_, Spain is ‘a hypocritical and cruel wolf’, the Portuguese are _fortes e quasi barbaros_, the English _maliciosos_, the Italians, since the book was to appear in their country, merely ‘warlike and ungrateful’. [575] If, for instance, the bracketed words in the following sentence (p. 3, § 5) be omitted it gains in vigour and loses little in the sense: _Este poder se não deo aos Reys para extorsoens_ [_& violencias_] _mas para amparar_ [_& defender_] _os vassallos porque até o propria Deos parece que tem as mãos atadas a rigores_ [_& castigos_] _& livres a clemencias_ [_& misericordias_].