Note 144 — Chapter V
Reading edition
Castro, Bibl. Esp., Tom. I. p. 200. By the kindness of Prof. Gayangos, I have a copy of the whole. To judge from the opening lines of the poem, it was probably written in 1382:—
Despues de la prima · la ora passada, En el mes de Enero · la noche primera En cccc e veiynte · durante la hera, Estando acostado alla · en mi posada, etc.
The first of January, 1420, of the Spanish Era, when the scene is laid, corresponds to A. D. 1382. A copy of the poem printed at Madrid, 1848, 12mo, pp. 13, differs from my manuscript copy, but is evidently taken from one less carefully made.