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OMNIANA.

con estas CCCC desta segunda seran mil cabales, Fueron impressas en la muy noble villa de Valladolid (Pincia otro tiempo llamada) por Francisco de Cordova, y a costa de Francisco de Alfaro, cuyo es el privilegio, acabose a dos dias del mes de henero deste ano de M. D. L. I. I.

There had been a prior edition of the first volume in 1545, printed in the same city, and a surreptitious one printed out of the Kingdom. I do not know whether the third part was ever published; Nicolas Antonio does not observe that it was promised. The manner in which he speaks of the book makes me believe, that he scarcely looked beyond the title. Certain it is, that he had not discovered the author's name, which if he had perused the first volume he must have done; for though the good Friar chooses to be anonymous in his title pages, he has by a sort of Irish contrivance given his name, at full length in an acrostic, at the end of what he calls his Litany. Fray