According to Algarobilla, in the Entremes de los Alcaldes de Dagango,i Pedro de la Rana had committed these coplas to memory, "sin que letra falte"-and this accomplishment gained him the votes of Panduro and Pedro Estornudo in that memorable election. There are references to these coplas on the stage by Lope de Vega,2 more than once by Quifiones de Benavente;3 and, in the novel, by the probable author of the Picara Justina4 and the unknown author of Estebanillo Gonzdlez.5 Gonzalo Correas still knew the name of the dog's owner.6 In Andr6s de Claramonte's comedia (very successful in its time), El Valiente Negro en Flandes,7 the second title of which, as Restoris has pointed out, was Perro de Alba, the hero, Juan de M6rida, whom all had spurned as an infidel "dog," is accepted as a soldier by the Duke of Alba in the Netherlands and given his protector's name. The negro, in gratitude, declares, Pues me dais Segunda naturaleza, y soy negro y alba soy, corrido de vuestras perlas* el perro de Alba ser6 de las escuadras flamencas,'