[604] Like another equally brilliant soldier historian, Napier, he rarely spells a foreign word aright. Cf. _Epanaphoras_, p. 204: _A este nome_ Milord _corresponde no estado feminil o nome_ Léde. Falmouth, where he had actually been, becomes Valmud, the Isle of Wight Huyt, Whitehall Huythal, the Earl of Northumberland Notaborlan (Brito has Northũbria). [605] A more personal and picaresque satirist was D. THOMAS DE NORONHA (†1651), whose works were collected by Dr. Mendes dos Remedios in his _Subsidios_, vol. ii: _Poesias Ineditas de D. Thomás de Noronha_ (Coimbra, 1899). The satiric poem _Os Ratos da Inquisição_ by ANTONIO SERRÃO DE CASTRO (1610-85) was first published by Castello Branco in 1883. [606] Vol. iii contains a poem by Jacinto Freire de Andrade with the same title. [607] _Fenix Ren._ ii. 406; iii. 225; v. 376. [608] Hers is the deplorable pun of a superior superior: Que se Prior sois agora Sempre fostes suprior. [609] The real title of the first (1623) edition is _Dos Novissimos de Dom Francisco Rolim de Moura_. Adam is conducted by his son Abel through Hell and comforted by a vision of Paradise. As he is the first man and only Abel has died, he must forgo Dante’s pleasure in meeting his personal enemies there, but there is something perhaps even more awful in the thought of the emptiness of these _infinitos logares_ (iii. 48). Virgil’s _Facilis descensus_, &c., is translated in two lines of great badness: _Onde descer he cousa tão factivel Quanto tornar atraz tem de impossivel_ (iii. 36). [610] _Nihil tamen eo vivente excussum nisi Solitudines (hoc est Saudades)_, says the _Theatrum_. [611] e.g. (x. 126): Hũa montanha e serra inhabitada Se erguia ao ar, em cuja corpulenta Espalda.... [612] ii. 30-49: Do undoso leito, donde repousava O mar, &c. [613] xii. 79: _Sou fragil lenho._ [614] In the storm in canto 2 (_Eis que o ceo de improuiso se escurece_) he seems to have realized that Camões’ description could not be improved upon. [615] Numerous other academies of the same kind came into being in this and the first half of the next century. Most of their members now belong to the (Brazilian) _Academia dos Esquecidos_--the Forgotten. [616] The slip in the second letter by which in the French version not the Beja Mertola Gate but Mertola itself is seen from the convent, does not favour this theory, which recently has been sustained by the Conde de Sabugosa. This passage is held to be a convincing proof, were such proof needed, of the genuineness of the letters. It is rather a proof of the reality of the love intrigue than of the nun’s authorship. If Chamilly, for the edification of his vanity, were fabricating such a letter, what more likely than that he should wish to add his note of local colour and remembered vaguely the word Mertola in connexion with the view from the convent terrace? What he could scarcely have invented or expressed is the real depth of feeling.