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 Another metrical specimen occurs T. 1, ff. 90. The Friar has fallen out of bed, and sprained his foot, upon which the Admiral requires from him a whole copla de pie quebrado, and he rhymes away, exemplifying the metre by glosing upon this pun.

A Cavallero has such a pain in one of his double teeth, that he writes to ask if it is not the gout. Frays Luys replies, that he never heard of gout in the teeth; that all grinders, whether of man or of miller, will wear out in time; and that as the knight was threescore years of age, it was no wonder that his tooth should be done with, and be in a state to be plucked out. The knight is not pleased that one who is four and twenty years older than himself should call him sixty before his wife, and complains of this as an injurious mis-statement of the real fact. The Friar upon this makes something like an apology, but he says it is no great error, for he is fourscore, and fifty-