Devem de ser conservados.
(Loyal services and deeds
Were yours to gain them:
By such services and deeds
Shall you maintain them.)
Cf. Marvell’s
The same arts that did gain
A power must it maintain.
A path or no path leads to the grey ruined walls of the Castello dos Mouros above the village. Here legend would have it that the hapless poet, Bernardim Ribeiro, came to sigh for his royal mistress, King Manoel I’s daughter, who, however, probably left Lisbon and Cintra for Savoy some weeks before Ribeiro came to Lisbon from Alemtejo.