Para nos gran bien serian,

Porque nos dan a entender

Que bien nos sucediera.

Ganaremos grande victoria,

Nada no se perdiera,

Don Nuño lo hizo mal

Que convusco non venia,

Mande Dios que se arrepienta, etc.

[176] Duran, Romances Caballerescos, Madrid, 1832, 12mo, Prólogo, Tom. I. pp. xvi., xvii., with xxxv., note (14).

[177] The peculiarities of a metrical form so entirely national can, I suppose, be well understood only by an example; and I will, therefore, give here, in the original Spanish, a few lines from a spirited and well-known ballad of Góngora, which I select, because they have been translated into English asonantes, by a writer in the Retrospective Review, whose excellent version follows, and may serve still further to explain and illustrate the measure:—