[617] Seven spurious letters, and subsequently others, were added in many of the editions. Filinto Elysio translated the twelve. [618] _Je parierais tout au monde que les Lettres portugaises ont été écrites par un homme._ [619] e.g. ‘You told me frankly that you were in love with a lady in your own country’ (letter 2). ‘Were you not ever the first to leave for the front, the last to return?’ (5). ‘My passion increases every instant’ (4). ‘I do not repent having adored you. I am glad that you betrayed me’ (3). [620] Ed. H. Butler Clarke (1897), pp. 17-18 and 65-7. [621] The 1652 edition speaks of _coroneis_ (p. 277) who, it has been argued, were called _mestres de campo_ till 1708 (Goes, however, in his _Cron. de D. Manuel_, 1619 ed., f. 213, has _os fez todos quatro coroneis de mil homens_; cf. Gil Vicente, i. 234: _Corregedor, coronel_); it refers (p. 393) to João IV as still alive (†1656): _Que Deos guarde e prospere_. It would appear to have been written at two periods, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, unless the passages implying the earlier date are as deliberately misleading as the 1652 title-page. [622] _Classicos Esquecidos_ (Rio de Janeiro, 1915). Duarte de Macedo in his dedicatory letter says: ‘I have taken this _Summa Politica_ from the Latin and Italian languages.’ ‘I do not offer it as my own, because I restore it to your Highness as yours’, so that he had armed himself against such charges of plagiarism. [623] It loses nothing in Sir Peter Wyche’s translation. Cf. the account of Castro’s first arrival at Goa: ‘When the entry was to be, the two Governours were in a Faluque with gilded Oars, and an awning of divers-coloured silks; the Castles and Ships entertain’d ’em with the horrour of reiterated shootings, the Vivas and expectation of the common people did without any cunning flatter the new Government, &c.’ [624] _Cada clausula he filha da eloquencia mats sublime_, &c. (Barbosa Machado). [625] e.g. 1759 ed., p. 342: _cujas ruinas serião de sua fama os elogios maiores_ would be straightened out from Latin into Portuguese: _serião os maiores elogios de sua fama_. [626] On his homeward voyage in 1654 he had suffered from a violent storm, and was only saved by a Dutch pirate who landed the passengers of the Portuguese ship at the Ilha Graciosa without their belongings. [627] _Historia do Futuro_ (1718), p. 93. [628] See letters from Bahia, July 22, 1695. V 1706-1816 _The Eighteenth Century_