Endnotes

  1. From Mr. J. Y. Gibson’s spirited translation of El Viage del Parnaso (1883). ↩

  2. Don Quixote, Part I, chapter III. ↩

  3. I.e., she was Jew. ↩

  4. Cardinal, a weal raised by a lash. ↩

  5. In allusion to the proverb⁠—á cada puerco viene su San Martin⁠—to every pig comes its Martinmas. ↩

  6. In allusion to the Shrovetide sport of throwing at cocks. ↩

  7. Era batalla nabal, a play upon the word nabal, meaning “belonging to turnips (nabos)” as well as “naval.” ↩

  8. No imaginary but a real personage, whose true name was Antonio Cabreriza. ↩

  9. The Morisco was called “dog” by the Christians; and “cat” (gato) was a cant word for “thief.” ↩

  10. There is a scene here which will not bear an English dress. The scholars stand around and spit at Pablo. There is no other humour of which the reader is deprived. ↩

  11. The famous secretary of Philip II, whose intrigues against Spain never ceased till his death in 1611. ↩

  12. Ostend was taken by the Spaniards under Espinola, on the 22nd September, 1604, after a siege which lasted more than three years. ↩

  13. A book so named, written by a famous master of the sword, Pacheco de Narváez, was published at Madrid in 1600. ↩

  14. There was actually a famous fencing-master, a mulatto, Francisco Hernandez, of whom his rival, Narváez, wrote slightingly. Probably they are both ridiculed in this passage. ↩

  15. Majalahonda is a village ten miles from Madrid, famous for the rudeness of its inhabitants and their speech. See Don Quixote, Part II, chapter XIX. ↩

  16. Demandador⁠—one who begs for alms for the release of the souls of the poor from purgatory, elsewhere called facetiously animero. ↩

  17. In the original, “que era un Conde de Irlos.” The Conde de Irlos was one of the heroes of the ancient ballads. He was the Marquis de Carabas of Spanish legend. ↩

  18. Literally, “he who is nothing cannot be a son of something,” i.e., hidalgo⁠—hijo de algo. ↩

  19. Jerome Bosch, a Dutch painter who settled in Spain in the latter half of the fifteenth century, famous for his eccentric works⁠—the Spanish Callot. ↩

  20. Meaning that she pretended to practise witchcraft, like others of her calling. ↩

  21. Signum crucis⁠—slang for a sword-cut across the face. ↩

  22. Noted bravoes of the period. ↩