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 ing upon the forehead of the dead a sentence of eternal and infinite anguish in the blood of the Redeemer!

 

Fray Luys d'Escobar is the author of Las Quatrocientas, one of the oddest books in the Spanish, or indeed in any other language. After the manner of bibliographers, here follow the full titles of the two volumes. They are in what we should call small folio, but the paper must have been of enormous size, the sheets being folded in octavo.

''Las Quatrocientas Respuestas a otras tantas preguntas, quel illustrissimo Señor Don Fadrique Enrriquez, Almirante de Castilla, y otras personas, embiaron a preguntar en diversas vezes al autor, nombrado, mas de que era frayle menor. Con quinientos proverbios de consejos y avisos a manera de letania, agora segunda vez estampadas, corregidas y emendadas, Y por el mesmo autor añdidas cient glosas'',