[84] Coplas 1086-1094, etc.
[85] Coplas 299-716.
[86] Coplas 300 and 714.
[87] Coplas 386, 392, etc.
[88] Southey, in the notes to his “Madoc,” Part I. Canto xi., speaks justly of the “sweet flow of language and metre in Lorenzo.” At the end of the Alexandro are two prose letters supposed to have been written by Alexander to his mother; but I prefer to cite, as a specimen of Lorenzo’s style, the following stanzas on the music which the Macedonians heard in Babylon:—
Alli era la musica · cantada per razon,
Las dobles que refieren · coitas del corazon,
Las dolces de las baylas, · el plorant semiton,
Bien podrien toller precio · à quantos no mundo son.
Non es en el mundo · ome tan sabedor,