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nothing to a conclusion: we must wait for the Second Part it pro the full race that is now denied it; and in the ossip,

keep it shut up in your own quarters"

"Very good," said the barber; "and here coether, the

'Araucana' of Don Alonso de Ercilla, the 'Austriada' of Juan Rufo,

Justice of Cordova, and the 'Montserrate' of Christobal de Virues, the

Valencian poet"

"These three books," said the curate, "are the best that have been

written in Castilian in heroic verse, and they may compare with the most

famous of Italy; let them be preserved as the richest treasures of poetry

that Spain possesses"

The curate was tired and would not look into any more books, and so he

decided that, "contents uncertified," all the rest should be burned; but

just then the barber held open one, called "The Tears of Angelica"

"I should have shed tears myself," said the curate when he heard the

title, "had I ordered that book to be burned, for its author was one of

the famous poets of the world, not to say of Spain, and was very happy in

the translation of some of Ovid's fables"