LOPEZ DE VEGA.
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How astonishing, (says sismondi), was the Ter
tility of the imagination ofths writer lis WORKS
seem to exceed alike the powers and extent OF
human life. He lived to the age of 72: of which,
6fty wears are the most that we can reck-
on. that he could devote to literary labors; espe-
ciallv, when We recolcct he had several times
been a soldier, was twice married, and was, be-
sides, sides for many years Priest and Familiar of
Inquistion Yet he found time to write twenty
two hundred plays, ofabout three thousand verses
each. and twenty-one vol,lmse quaro Of Poetry,
among which are five Epic Poems! Thus, he
must have written new play, consisting OF about
three thousand verses, i'll every eight days, OF his


life And in those eight DAYS he must ht nave nTs
the historical researches, upon which they were
founded he must have read Tacitus, for instance,
to write his Nero.