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This work won for him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, conferred with other evidences of favor by Pope Urban VIII. Three years later appeared Lope's Laurel de Apolo, a poem of some seven thousand lines describing an imaginary festival given on Mount Helicon in April, 1628, by Apollo, at which he rewards the poets of merit.
In his Epístola á Don Antonio de Mendoza he evinces it in the following lines: Necesidad y yo partiendo á medias el estado de versos mercantiles, pusimos en estilo las Comedias. Yo las saqué de sus principios viles, engendrando en España más Poetas, que hay en los ayres átomos sutiles. Obras Sueltas, vol. I, p. 285.
This interesting comedia was written in the last decade of the life of Lope de Vega, in the most fertile period of his genius. Hartzenbusch is authority for the statement that it was written towards the close of the year 1625 and revised in 1632. It is evident that the closing lines of it were written in 1632, for the author says in the
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