Vistierame vn almexia,
No hallando mi brial;
Fuerame para la puerta,
Y abrila de par en par.
Cancionero General, 1535, f. 111. a.
[191] These two ballads are in the Cancionero of 1535, ff. 107 and 108; both evidently very old. The use of carta in the last for an unwritten message is one proof of this. I give the originals of both for their beauty. And first:—
Fonte frida, fonte frida,
Fonte frida, y con amor,
Do todas las avezicas
Van tomar consolacion,