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91-3: =Don Juan de Austria=: a natural son of the Emperor Charles V,
suppressed an insurrection of the Moors in _Granada_ (1570) and later
Footnote: won the battle of _Lepanto_, where he crushed the Turkish
armament. _Cervantes_, the author of _Don Quixote_, served under him in
this battle.

92-1: =sin perjuicio de que=: cf. same note, p. 64, 11.

92-2: =andando los anos=: cf. note _escrita la carta_, p. 83, 5.

92-3: =setecientos=: it will be observed that in this and other
compounds of _siete_, _ie_ reverts to the original etymological _e_ in
accordance with the general rule operating through the whole Spanish
vocabulary that _e_ changes to _ie_, and _o_ to _ue_, only in the
accented syllable.

92-4: =volvera a pertenecerles=: it is said that some of the African