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permississet, si vivus adhuc inter nos degeret; sed pro anonymi Franciscani opere, qui respondens interrogationibus cati hujus viri, interrogationes ipsas versibus formavisse credendus est. This opinion, gratuitous as it is, can have no weight against the positive affirmation of Fray Luys, that his Excellency's verses were perfectas. Had he been palming his own verses upon the world as the Admiral's, he would hardly have ventured to dedicate them to the Admiral's son. And indeed the internal evidence that D. Fadrique's questions are genuine, (particularly in the discussion concerning Free Will,) is decisive; even if the general character of the book were not far too dramatic, in its little delays, and apologies, and pettishnesses, to have been all the writer's fiction. This insinuation that my Lord the Admiral did not write his questions himself; is almost as unpardonable a want of proper respect to the character of the dead, as Berganza