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 shows to the Bishop Don Hieronymo, when he attempts to prove that that perfect one with the shaven crown used no other arms against the Moors than those of the Spirit.

There is a remarkable similarity of talent between this quaint old Friar and John Byron, whose verbal criticisms and theological discussions in rhyme have found their way, by favour of Mr. Alexander Chalmers, into the last collection of the British Poets. There is something so odd and so original in this good man's verses, that in spite of their alloy of dullness, I was glad to find them there. Byron and Escobar seem to have differed only as the circumstances of their age and country and situations were different. But the Admiral must remain without a rival,..sibi ipsi simillumus, "none but himself can be his parallel."