[52a] “We must die.”
[52b] “We already know it.”
[57] Importunate and unwearied begging.
[59a] On the portico of the Franciscan convent, in Granada, is to be seen a large marble slab, on which a sonnet is engraved, the first two lines of which are:—
“En provincias doscientas y setenta,
Tiene Francisco doce mil conventos.” [59b]
[59b] “In 270 provinces,
Francis has 12,000 convents.”
[67] A kind of chick-pea, much used in Spain, especially in the olla podrida.
[71a] A kind of talisman hung round the neck of devout persons, which sometimes is supposed to contain relics of saints, pious prayers, or images of the Virgin.
[71b] “Here lies Sister Belen,
Who made sweetmeats very well,
And passed her whole life
In dressing wax figures” [of the infant Christ].
[72] The great feudal lords who had jurisdiction over their own lands were so called, because on the limits of those lands they fixed a gallows (horca), with a large knife (cuchillo), as a symbol of their privilege.