Note 256 — FIRST SECTION. History of Spanish Poetry and Eloquence, from the Introduction of the Italian Style to the Age of Cervantes and Lope de Vega.
Thomasina Ross translation
The following is by no means the worst of these enigmas.
Vide un soto levantado sobre los aynes un dia, el qual con sangre regado, con gran ansia cultivado, Muchas hierbas producia. De alli un manojo arrancando, y solo con él tocando una sàbia y cuerda gente, la dejé cabe una puente sin dolores lamentando.
Who would guess that the object alluded to is a horse’s tail?