Excerpt from The Wonder-Working Magician: Life Is a Bream; The Purgatory of Saint Patrick, Now First Translated Fully From the Spanish in the Metre, of the Original It is curious to find that the same anecdote which formed the Induction to the original Taming of a 5mm, and which, from a comic point of View, Shakspeare so wonderfully developed in his own comedy, Calderon in vested with such solemn and sublime dignity in La Vida or Saono. He found it, as Sefior Hartzenbusch points out in the edition of 1872 already quoted, in the very amusing Viage Entrotenia'o of Augustin de Rojas, which was first published in 1603. Hartzenbusch refers to the modern edition of Rojas, Madrid, 1793, tomo 1, pp. 261, 262, 263, but in a copy of the Lerida edition of 1615, in my own possession, I find the anecdote at folios 118, 119, 120. There are some slight differences between the version of Rojas and that of Goulart, but the inci dents and the persons are the same. The conclusion to which the artizan arrived at, in the version of Goulart, that all had been a dream, is expressed more strongly by the Duke himself in the story as told by Rojas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.