Note 32 — Chapter II · REBELLION OF THE MORISCOES.

"Pocos sois, i venís presto."—Mendoza, Guerra de Granada, p. 47.

Hita gives a cancion in his work, the burden of which is a complaint that the mountaineers had made their attack too late instead of too early:—

"Pocos sois, y venís tarde."

(Guerras de Granada, tom. ii. p. 32.) The difference is explained by the circumstance that the author of the verses—probably Hita himself—considers that Christmas Eve, not New Year's Eve, was the time fixed for the assault.