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The expedient of the magic water, to which Cervantes refers once more in the Coloquio de los Perros (see vol. viii. of the present edition (Glasgow, 1902), p. 163), seems to be as old as most things in literature. Scherillo, in his valuable commentary to the Arcadia cites a parallel from Pliny, Naturalis Historia, lib. xxxi., cap. 16: "Cyzici fons Cupidinis vocatur, ex quo potantes amorem deponere Mucianus credit."

ssss1 It is just possible, however, that Cervantes may have omitted the Habidas deliberately; for though Ticknor (op. cit., vol. iii., p. 99, n. 18), on the authority of Gayangos, quotes the book as "among the earliest imitations of the Diana," so excellent a scholar as Professor Rennert (op. cit., p. 111) inclines to think "that it is rather a 'Novela Caballeresca.'"

ssss1 This seems to follow from the references in the Viaje del Parnaso:

El fiero general de la atrevida

Gente, que trae un cuervo en su estandarte,

Es ARBOLANCHES, muso por la vida (cap. vii., ter. 81).

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