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Of his burial-place nothing is known except that he was buried, in

accordance with his will, in the neighbouring convent of Trinitarian

nuns, of which it is supposed his daughter, Isabel de Saavedra, was an

inmate, and that a few years afterwards the nuns re their dead with them But whether the remains of

Cervantes were included in the re-place is now lost beyond all hope This furnishes

perhaps the least defensible of the iteainst his conteood

deal of exaggeration To listen to raphers one would

suppose that all Spain was in league not only against the ainst

his memory, or at least that it was insensible to his merits, and left

him to live in misery and die of want To talk of his hard life and

unworthy employuish hi a

precarious livelihood? True, he was a gallant soldier, who had been

wounded and had undergone captivity and suffering in his country's cause,

but there were hundreds of others in the same case He had written a

mediocre specimen of an insipid class of romance, and some plays which

manifestly did not cooers to patronise plays that did not amuse them, because the

author was to produce "Don Quixote" twenty years afterwards?

The scramble for copies which, as we have seen, followed immediately on