¹ There exist three editions of this auto. Two appear in the third part of the pastoral novel and the other is just an edition of the auto. (1) Los sirgveros de la Virgen sin original peccado. / Dirigido al Illvstrissimo / Señor Don Fray Balthasar de Cobarruvias del / Consejo de su Magestad, Obispo de Mechoacán. / Por el Bachiller Francisco Bramón, / Consiliario de la Real Vniversidad de México. / En México, con licencia. / Año 1620. (2) Francisco Bramón. / Los Sirgueros / de la Virgen. I Prólogo y selección / de / Agustín Yáñez. (Biblioteca del Estudiante Universitario— 45. Ediciones de la Universidad nacional Autónoma. Mexico, 1944.) This is an abridged edition in which only the auto is complete. La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte, by Joaquín Bolaños, is also included in this volume in abridged form. (3) Auto del triunfo de la Virgen / y gozo mexicano (1620), / por Francisco Bramón. / Edición de Agustín Yáñez. (Textos de Literatura Mexicana—I. Imprenta Universitaria, Mexico, 1945.)

² The orthography employed and the number of the folios are those of the first edition.

³ This throne with an arched door is identical to Marcilda’s arch in front of the chapel of the Virgen de los Remedios. This arch is described in detail in Book II, fols. 107v-110v.

⁴ For further information see Shoemaker, William Hutchinson, The Multiple Stage in Spain During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Princeton, 1935), pp. 48, 58–59 Google Scholar. A doctoral thesis.

⁵ Nowhere in any of Ovid’s works, to my knowledge, is there a description of how Peccado is dressed. There is, however, in Book II, vv. 760–782, of his Metamorphoses (London, 1929) a detailed description of Envy and her cave. Envy is, of course, one of the seven deadly sins. Peccado gives a vague description of his cave in vv. 336–340:

⁶ See Genesis 3:7. Et aperti sunt oculi amborum; cumque cognovissent se esse nudos, consuerunt folia ficus, et fecerunt sibi perizomata.