Note 216 — Chapter VII · REBELLION OF THE MORISCOES.
Reading edition
The punning attractions of the name were too strong to be resisted by the ballad-makers of the day. See in particular the romance (one of the best, it may be added—and no great praise—in Hita's second volume) beginning—
"Mastredages marineros
de Huescar y otro lugar
han armado una Galera
que no la hay tal en la mar.
No tiene velas, ni remos,
y navegar, y hace mal,"—
and so on, for more stanzas than the reader will care to see.—Guerras de Granada, tom. ii. p. 469.