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

Note 15 — BOOK I. FROM THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

Thomasina Ross translation

One of these sonnets is printed, as a specimen, in the before-mentioned Discurso de los Sonetos. There is in the antiquated diction a degree of precision which approximates to the style of the original:—

Vinha Amor por o campo trebelhando com sà fremosa Madre, e sàs donzellas; el rindo, e cheo de lédice entre ellas, ja de arco, e de sas setas nom curando. Brioranja hi a sazom sia pensando na gram coita que ella ha, e vendo aquellas setas de Amor, filha em sa mano huna dellas, e metea no arco, e vayse andando. Des hi volveo o rosto hu Amor sia. Her, disse: ay traidor que me has falido; en prenderey de ti crua vendita. Largou a mano, quedou Amor ferido: e catando a sa sestra endoa do grita, hay merce, a Brioranja que fogia.

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