31
Quevedo, Obras (Prosa), ed. Astrana Marín (Madrid, 1945), p. 845.
32
The only ms. of this Trompa, at the BM, was published by R. A. Del Piero, «La respuesta de Pérez de Montalbán a la Perinola de Quevedo», PMLA, LXXVI (1961), 40-47. Bacon, in an attempt to explain Quevedo's remark (Life, 31 n. 1), pointed unhelpfully to a vague resemblance between Venga lo que viniere and Montalbán's La deshonra honrosa.
33
Mendoza, El fénix castellano (Lisbon, 1690), pp. 81-83.
34
My attention was drawn to this ms. by Professor E. M. Wilson. Cf. Salvá, Catálogo, Vol. I, pp. 106-107, 652.
35
17th-century mss. are found at the BN (No. 17.061) and BM (Add. 33.746/4). The play appeared in both editions of Diferentes XXV, and in Diferentes XLIV, and saw at least three suelta editions.
36
So Para todos, fol. 135r. The BN ms. has «quarenta semanas.»
See Bacon, Life, 390; Parker, Chronology, 190.
37
Cf. Calderón's use of Sebastian I's expedition in A secreto agravio secreta venganza, which as this and other features -the Portuguese setting, the names of the chief characters- suggest, must have numbered our play among its sources.
38
All these players, except Lorenzo Hurtado, took part in the first performance of Lope's El castigo sin venganza, in 1632 (?). See H. A. Rennert, The Spanish Stage in the time of Lope de Vega (New York, 1909), pp. 376-377.
39
Mendoza, El fénix, pp. l4-16. An allusion -«Sus Medicis rinda Enciso, / Mendoza su Montañés»
- to the author's own El montañés indiano shows that the romance was written after that play, an autograph ms. of which at the BN, Res. 93, bears the date 9 August 1630. (The palace accounts seem to show that it was performed at court on 27 February 1629, but probably the entry refers to 1630 or 1631).
40
A. Enríquez Gómez, Sansón nazareno (Rouen, 1656), fol. p4v.