This form of cuanto mds occurs only once, in a folk-tale from Zamora, 192: 'Gijeno, pues la chica fu6 creciendo y el diablo contimds iba creciendo la chica mis se enamoraba de ella.' I have no more examples from the peninsular Spanish dialect literature known to me but exactly the same form is found in Chile, Costa Rica, and New Mexico.25 A dialectic Spanish form cuantimds, however is found in Arag6n, Argentina, and Mexico and is used by Santa Teresa.-" In La Montafia there are also used the forms cuantis mds, en cuantis que < en cuanto que, and en cuanti < en cuanto.2Y Juan del Encina used the form cuantes < cuanto.28 All the above forms show one phonetic development in common, the presence of pretonic i (e in the single case from Juan del Encina) instead of o. Gagini, s.v. contimds, believes that the origin of contimds may be cuanto y mds used in classic Spanish. There are many examples of cuanto y mds = cuanto mads from classic Spanish in Cuervo, Diccionario II 658-9, from Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calder6n, Alarc6n, etc. In Lope de Rueda we find also a form cuantis mds as in the modern dialect of La Montafia. In view of the frequency of the phrase cuanto y mds in the Spanish of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it is quite probable that the