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ssss1 Lemos's liking for the Galatea is mentioned in the Letter Dedicatory to Persiles y Sigismunda: "si a dicha, por buena ventura mía, que ya no sería ventura, sino milagro, me diesse el cielo vida, las (i.e. Semanas del Jardín y Bernardo) verá y con ellas fin de la Galatea, de quien se està aficionado Vuessa Excelencia...."

ssss1 See vol. iv. of the present edition (Glasgow, 1901), p. 8.

ssss1 See note (2) above.

ssss1 It may be convenient to point out that the Arcadia mentioned in the text is a play published in the Trezena Parte de las Comedias de Lope de Vega Carpio (Madrid, 1620) and should not be confounded with Lope's pastoral novel, the Arcadia (Madrid, 1598). This warning will appear unnecessary to Spanish scholars. But the bibliography of Lope's works is so vast and intricate that a slip may easily be made. For example, Mr. Henry Edward Watts (Life of Miguel de Cervantes, London, 1891, p. 144) at one time mistook Lope's Dorotea for the Arcadia, assuming the former to be a pastoral novel. This very curious error is corrected in the same writer's Miguel de Cervantes, his life & works (London, 1895, p. 200, n.) with the remark that "if any blunder is excusable in a writer it is that of not remembering the name of one of Lope's multitudinous productions." In the same work we are assured (p. 111) that of all Lope's plays "there are not half-a-dozen whose names are remembered to-day out of Spain; nor one character, scene or line which any one not a member of the Spanish Royal Academy cares to recall." If ignorance has really reached this point, the caution given in the opening words of this note may be useful to the general reader.