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History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2)

Note 27 — BOOK I. FROM THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

Thomasina Ross translation

For example, in the following passage which Sarmiento has also quoted; the language, too, differs less from the present Spanish in this, than in many other parts of the work.

De los sus ojos tan fuertemente llorando, Tornaba la cabeça, e estavalos catando. Vio puertas abiertas, e uzos sin canados, Alcandaras vacìas sin pieles e sin mantos E sin falcones, e sin azores, mudados. Sospirò mio Zid; ca mucho aviè grandes cuidados. Fablò mio Zid bien, e tan mejorado: Grado á ti, Señor Padre, que estas en alto. Esto me han envuelto mìs enemigos malos, &c.

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