But whether the remains of Cervantes were included in the removal or not no one knows, and the clue to their resting-place is now lost beyond all hope.

This furnishes perhaps the least defensible of the items in the charge of neglect brought against his contemporaries.

In some of the others there is a good deal of exaggeration.

To listen to most of his biographers one would suppose that all Spain was in league not only against the man but against his memory, or at least that it was insensible to his merits, and left him to live in misery and die of want.

To talk of his hard life and unworthy employments in Andalusia is absurd.