Vasquez

Definition and stakes

Walter John Buck,  Wild Spain (España agreste)

“ Vasquez cannot tell you who is Prime Minister at Madrid, and cares not whether England may wish to surrender Gibraltar to Spain; but he can tell you whither that pack of duck, like a small cloud on the horizon, is hurrying to alight; he can point out to you the birds fresh come from the north, as distinguished from earlier arrivals, as he can also tell you when ducks, which, to the uninitiated, appear quite happy and content, are packing up, and will be gone with the morning's light. He will take you where the snipe are in hundreds when you have searched their favourite haunts in vain ”
Source: Gutenberg

Portrait of John Dryden John Dryden,  The Indian Emperor — Act II: Scene IV

“ Ill fate for me unjustly you provide,
Great souls are sparks of your own heavenly pride:
That lust of power we from your god-heads have,
You 're bound to please those appetites you gave.
Enter Vasquez and Pizarro, with Spaniards.
Vasq. Pizarro, I have hunted hard to-day,
Into our toils, the noblest of the prey;
Seize on the king, and him your prisoner make,
While I, in kind revenge, my taker take.
”
Source: Wikisource

Gomes Eannes de Zurara,  The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea…

“ Then Alvaro Vasquez called Diego Gil, that other esquire of whom we spoke before, for he knew him for a brave man and one of his own upbringing; and they went through the other caravels in such wise that they gathered together those persons whom they thought sufficient for their safety. And all together they went on shore—there being yet some part of the night left for their march—but ere they had pressed on any farther, Alvaro Vasquez, wishful to admonish them, spake unto them thus. ”
Source: Gutenberg

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