Note 93 — BOOK I. FROM THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
Thomasina Ross translation
In the fourth stanza a patriotic flight seems to promise the recurrence of similar passages:
Como que creo, que fossen menores, Que los Africanos, los hechos del Cid? Ni que feroces menos en la lid Entrassen los nuestros que los Agenores? &c.
On another occasion the author addresses an invocation to his native city Cordova:
O flor de saber y cabelleria, Cordova madre, tu hijo perdona, Si en los cantares, que agora pregona, No divulgarè tu sabiduria, &c.