Note 67 — Chapter III · REBELLION OF THE MORISCOES.
Reading edition
Ibid. p. 410, et seq.—Mendoza, Guerra de Granada, pp. 67, 68.—Herrera, Historia General, tom. i. p. 736.
Hita has commemorated the bold passage of the bridge at Tablate in one of the romances, or ballads, with which he has plentifully besprinkled the second volume of his work, and which present a sorry contrast to the ballads in the preceding volume. These, which form part of the popular minstrelsy of an earlier age, have all the raciness and flavour that belong to the native wild-flower of the soil. The ballads in the second volume are, probably, the work of Hita himself,—poor imitations of the antique, and proving that, if his rich and redundant prose is akin to poetry, his poetry is still nearer allied to prose.