Note 211 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
The story of the Infantes de Lara is in the “Crónica General,” Parte III., and in the edition of 1604 begins at f. 74. I possess, also, a striking volume, containing forty plates, on their history, by Otto Vaenius, a scholar and artist, who died in 1634. It is entitled “Historia Septem Infantium de Lara” (Antverpiae, 1612, fol.); the same, no doubt, an imperfect copy of which Southey praises in his notes to the “Chronicle of the Cid” (p. 401). Sepúlveda (1551-84) has a good many ballads on the subject; the one I have partly translated in the text beginning,—
Quien es aquel caballero Que tan gran traycion hacia? Ruy Velasquez es de Lara, Que à sus sobrinos vendia.
The corresponding passage of the Chronicle is at f. 78, ed. 1604.