Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ...flag unfurl d. Nor shall thy actions pass without a meed.--This note informs thee, Ortiz, who must bleed. But reading, be not startled at a name; Great is his prowess; Seville speaks his fame. I ll put that prowess to the proof ere long. None know but I that you avenge my wrong; So force must guide your arm, but prudence check your tongue. (Exit. By honour bound are Manet SANcno, to whom enter CLARINDO. He brings the joyful tidings of his approaching nuptials, and deliversa letter from Estrella, in which she tells him that Bustos T abera is in sea.ch of him, and conjures him with great tenderness to avail himself without delay of her brother s earnestness to bring the agreement to a conclusion. Sancho Ortiz, delighted at the letter, gives instant orders for festivities and rejoicings in his house, and after rewarding Clarindo for his news with a gem, dispatches him to make the necessary preparations. Impatient to meet Tabera, he is upon the point of setting out to overtake him, when he recollects the commands of the king, and resolves to ascertain first, what man he is destined to dispatch. He opens the note and reads: The man, Sancho, whom you must kill, is Bustos Tabera, His excessive anguish at this discovery makes him half doubt the truth of it; and he reads the fatal words repeatedly, in hopes of finding some mistake. In his soliloquy, which is very long, there is a great mixture of natural passion, misplaced wit, and trivial conceit. I should have inserted it, but he begins by comparing, in a metaphor of considerable length, the vicissitudes of life, to a particular game of cards; with which I, and probably my readers are unacquainted. A part of the speech is in the style of Ovid. Sancho is...