Note 28 — BOOK I. FROM THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
Thomasina Ross translation
He states at the beginning of the work the importance he placed on the labour of the rhyme, which he seems to have particularly valued, because he made four lines always rhyme together in succession:—
Mester trago fremoso, no es de juglaria, Mester es sen pecado, ca es de clerecia. Fablar curso rimado por la quaderna via Per silabas cantadas, ca es grant maestria.