Porque Judio los diga.

The manuscripts ought to be collated, and this curious poem published.

After a preface in prose, which seems to be by another hand, and an address to the king by the poet himself, he goes on:—

Quando el Rey Don Alfonso

Fynò, fyncò la gente,

Como quando el pulso

Fallesçe al doliente.

Que luego no ayudava,

Que tan grant mejoria

A ellos fyncava