Its figures are Truth, two gipsies, a fool, and seven peasants. Their speech is markedly _beirão_ and the old woman closely resembles the _velha_ of the tragicomedy _Triunfo do Inverno_, written to celebrate the birth of Princess Isabel in 1529, as the _Auto da Lusitania_ celebrated that of Prince Manuel in 1532 and the _Tragicomedia Pastoril da Serra da Estrella_ that of Princess Maria in 1527. The latter is a whole-hearted play of the Serra with a _cossante_, a _baile de terreiro_ and _chacota_, and continual fragments of song: one of the most Portuguese of Vicente’s plays. The _Triunfo do Inverno_ contains some most effective scenes and a bewildering wealth of lyrics: before one is finished another has begun, and the whole long play goes forward at a gallop. The first triumph of Winter is on the hills, the Serra da Estrella (_serra nevada_); the second, on the sea, affords a telling satire against the pilots on India-bound ships. The pilot here begins by stating that the storm will be nothing, then he says that he is not to blame for Winter’s conduct, finally he falls to imploring the Virgin and St. George and St. Nicholas; and but for his incompetence the ship might have been lying safe at Cochin. The second part of the tragicomedy is the Triumph of Spring in the Serra de Sintra. Spring enters in a lyrical profusion singing Del rosal vengo, mi madre, Vengo del rosale, breaks off into _Afuera, afuera nublados_, and resumes his song: A riberas de aquel rio Viera estar rosal florido, Vengo del rosale.