Note 508 — Chapter XX
Reading edition
Fr. Santos, “El Verdad en el Potro, y el Cid resuscitado,” (Madrid, 1686, 12mo), contains (pp. 9, 10, 51, 106, etc.) ballads on the Cid, as he says they were then sung in the streets by the blind beggars. The same or similar statements are made by Sarmiento, nearly a century later.