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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

ACT I. Scene I.

ACT II. Scene I.

ACT III. Scene I.

ACT IV. Scene I.

NOTES.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

The original book had no Table of Contents. This Table was created by the transcriber.

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

More detail can be found at the end of the book.


NUMANTIA

BY THE SAME TRANSLATOR.

Uniform with this Volume.


JOURNEY TO PARNASSUS.

COMPOSED BY

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA.

IN ENGLISH TERCETS,

WITH PREFACE AND ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES.


LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO.


NUMANTIA

A TRAGEDY

BY

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA


TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY
JAMES Y. GIBSON
TRANSLATOR OF THE "JOURNEY TO PARNASSUS"


LONDON

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO

MDCCCLXXXV


"A death with honour is supremest bliss,

No fate can be more excellent than this."

Act ii. p.27.


To the Memory of

GENERAL GORDON,

THE HERO OF KHARTOUM, THE MODERN PALADIN, OUR CHRISTIAN
THEOGENES, WHOSE SUBLIME FAITH, FORTITUDE, AND SELF-SACRIFICE,
MATCHLESS IN THESE TIMES, HAVE MADE HIS NAME SACRED IN EVERY
HOUSEHOLD, THE TRANSLATOR HUMBLY DEDICATES THIS ENGLISH
VERSION OF ONE OF THE SADDEST TRAGEDIES EVER PENNED;
WHICH NEVERTHELESS IS INSTINCT WITH THAT TRAGIC
PAIN WHICH PURIFIES THE SOUL, AND INCITES TO
SUCH DEEDS OF SELF-DEVOTION AS DISTIN-
GUISHED THE HERO, WHOSE LOSS
BRITAIN MOURNS THIS DAY
WITH A PECULIAR SOR-
ROW, NOT UNMIXED
WITH SHAME.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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