say’ (_ora aqui dizem algũs_), and then cites _huũ outro estoriador, cujo fallamento nos pareçe mais rrazoado_, i. e. he now rejects the version (of _algũs_) which he had adopted in his earlier work. In chapter 152 (1915 ed., p. 281) he similarly quotes what _dizem aqui algũs_ and then the version of _huũ outro compillador destes feitos, de cujos garfos per mais largo estillo exertamos nesta obra segundo que compre, rrecomta isto per esta maneira_, a manner which is not that of the _Cronica do Condestabre_. But indeed the style of the two works is conclusive. A single age does not produce two Fernam Lopez any more than it produces two Montaignes or two Malorys. Those who read the continuation of the _Cronica de D. Joam_ (i. e. the _Cronica da Tomada de Ceuta_, completed in 1450) by GOMEZ EANEZ DE ZURARA (_c._ 1410-74) find themselves in a very different atmosphere. We are told[177] that this soldier, turned historian, acquired his learning late in life, and he parades it like a new toy. Aristotle, Avicenna, and all the Scriptures are in his preface; Job, Ovid, Hercules, and Xenophon, a motley company, mourn the death of Queen Philippa (cap. 44). Sermons extend over whole chapters, although, as he is careful to state, the exact words of the preachers could not be given.[178] Philosophy had been graciously woven into Lopez’ narrative, but here it stands in solid icebergs interrupting the story. And if he wishes to say that memory often fails in old age he must quote St. Jerome; a date occupies half a page, being calculated in nine or ten eras;[179] and the style is sometimes similarly inflated, so that ‘next morning’ becomes ‘When Night was bringing the end of its obscurity and the Sun began to strike the Oriental horizon’ (cap. 92). He also delights in elaborate metaphors.[180] But it must not be thought that Zurara is all froth and morals: in between his purple patches and erudite allusions he tells his story directly and vividly, and, what is more, he has his enthusiasm and his hero. Nun’ Alvarez has faded into the background, but in his place appears the intense and fervent spirit of Prince Henry the Navigator. His partiality for Prince Henry appears in the _Cronica de D. Joam_, and in his _Cronica do Descobrimento e Conquista da Guiné_ it is still more evident.[181] In this chronicle, written at the request of King Afonso V and finished in the king’s library in February 1453, he made use of a lost _Historia das Conquistas dos Portugueses_ by Afonso Cerveira, and profited by much that he had heard from the Infantes Pedro and Henrique and other makers of history. For Zurara was a sincere and painstaking historian,[182] and when the king bade him record the deeds of the Meneses in Africa (the _Cronica do Conde D. Pedro de Meneses_ was completed in 1463, and the _Cronica dos Feitos de D. Duarte de Meneses_ about five years later) he was not content with the ‘recollections of courtiers’, but set out for Africa