August 27 – Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega dies aged 72 of scarlet fever in Madrid. This year also his illegitimate son Lope Félix, another poet, is drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Venezuela and his youngest daughter Antonia Clara is abducted.
The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells, has the much-quoted passage "Mellifluous Shakes-peare, whose inchanting Quill/Commanded Mirth or Passion" ...[1]
Philocothonista; or, The Drunkard, Opened, Dissected, and Anatomized[1]
^Hamos, Andrea Warren, "Bocángel y Unzueta, Gabriel" in
Bleiberg, Germán, Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1 p. 221. Retrieved from Google Books 2011-09-05.