de Amor, "Hell of Love," and utters a desponding wish to be interred along with him, and fhate his reputation, which he expreffes in the fol lowing pathetic ftanza, Si te plaze, que mis dias Plegate qui con Macias Do la fepultara fea, Una tierra los crio, Una muerte los llevo, The catastrophe of this unhappy poet, and the imprudence of his paffion, has afforded a moral tale to all fucceffive bards; many of his poems *are are in the Cancionero de Poetas Antiguos of Juan Alfonfo de Baena, in the Efcurial, and give a true idea of the galician ftyle of poetry, from whence we may fairly trace the Portugueze idiom, as the conquest and peopling of Portugal under Henry of Burgundy, was effected by people from the north of Galicia, in conjunction with foreigners. Many places in the north of Portugal acquired the fame names with those in Galicia, as it happened in England after the coming in, of the Saxons ; Galicia then extended further to the fouth, including all those districts between the rivers Duero, and Minho, which did not appertain to Lufitania. Ptolemy diftinguishes two claffes of people in Galicia, the Bracenfes, G 4 cenfes, whofe capital was at Braga, and the Lucenfes at Lugo. When Portugal was erected into a separate kingdom, they encroached on the borders, fo that what had belonged to Galicia, now became Portugal, and under their monarchs a new court fupported a variation, and gave a national character to their language, of which Bluteau, an Englishman, and chaplain to Queen Catherine, confort of our Charles the 2d, has given a most ample and learned vocabulary. The portuguese muse made a figure in the 12th century, under Alfonfo, the ft king of Portugal, in whose reign Gonzalo Henriquez, and Egas Moniz, are the first poets in the re cords cords of that kingdom. In the next century, king Dennis was a poet, as was alfo his natural fon Alfonfo Sanchez. The 14th century furnished king Alfonso the 4th, a favourite of the mufes, whofe poems have been collected by father Bernardo Brito. His fon king Peter was likewife a poet. In the reign of king John 1ft, the Infant Don Pedro composed various fonnets, in praife of Vafco Lobeira, the fuppofed author of the celebrated romance of Amadis of Gaul, of which fo much has been faid, and who furnished fo many admirable scenes to the animated pencil of Cervantes. In the 15th century, Henriquez Cayado diftinguished himself under king Emanuel, as did afterwards the Infant Don Pedro, son of king John' 2d 2d. At this time the Latin mufe was again invoked by the Portuguese, and the purity of the Auguftan age feemed to revive with Achilles Stacio, Diego Pereyra, Morais, Coelho, and the jefuit Luis de la Cruz, who wrote some latin tragedies; which made the historian Faria fay, that in his country every fountain was an Hippocrene, and every hill a Parnaffus. The 16th century produced Bernardino Ribeira, Francisco Saa de Miranda, Michael de Cabedo, the famous comedian Gil Vicente and his daughter Paula, who not only affifted her father in writing his comedies, but also compofed others of her own invention. All these flourished under John IIId. to whom we ought to add the poets under the reign of the unfortunate |