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In enumerating the plays of Lope which were still well known and represented in Spain in the nineteenth century, Gil de Zárate names La Moza de Cántaro among the first, and doubtless on this authority Ticknor speaks of it as one of the plays of Lope which "have continued to be favorites down to our own times."
Y will venture to send you this one stanza of Lope de Vega: Carlos Estuardo soy, Que siendo amor mi guía, Al cielo de España voy Por ver mi Estrella María. »There are Comedians once á week come to the Palace, where under á Great Canopy the Queen and the Infanta sit in the middle, our Princeps and D. Carlos on the Queen's right hand, the king and the little Cardinal on the Infantas left hand.»
Don Diègue and Don Diego impress us by the gravity of their appeals, while Don Bernardo arouses our sympathy by his senility old Spanish cavalier, decorated with the cross of Santiago, that he is!
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