A Mouros Neul e Xeres,
he says (Castro, Tom. II. p. 637); and Xerez was taken in 1263. But all these Cántigas were not, probably, written in one period of the king’s life.
[56] Ortiz de Zuñiga, Anales, p. 129.
[57] Take the following as a specimen. Alfonso beseeches the Madonna rather to look at her merits than at his own claims, and runs through five stanzas, with the choral echo to each, “Saint Mary, remember me!”
Non catedes como
Pequei assas,
Mais catad o gran
Ben que en vos ias;
Ca uos me fesestes
Como quen fas