Excerpt from The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Vol. 2: Second Viceroy of India
Por terra jaz o Emporio do Oriente,
Que do rigido Affonso o ferro, o raio
Ao grao Filho ganhou do grao Sabaio,
Envergonhando, o Deos armipotente.
Cahio Goa, terror antigamente
Do Naire vao, do perfido Malaio,
De barbaras Nacoes...Ah! que desmaio
Apaga o Marcio ardor da Lusa Gente.
Oh Seculos de Heroes! Dias de Gloria!
Varoes excelsos, que, a pezar da Morte,
Viveis na tradicao, viveis na Historia!
"Albuquerque terrivel, Castro forte",
Menezes, e outros mil, vossa memoria
Vinga as injurias, que nos faz a Sorte.
Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage, Soneto xxix.
In the Introduction to the first volume of my translation of the Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, I reserved for a future occasion some account of the foundation, rise, progress, and decay of the Portuguese Empire in the Eastern Indies, and some Bibliograhical notes in reference to the Indian Cycle of Portuguese Literature, because these two great subjects could hardly be treated with due consideration in that volume.
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