No vos dixo verdad, no!

Que yo nunca entre en Castilla,

Ni alla en tierras de Leon,

Si no quando era pequeño,

Que no sabia de amor.”

[192] These ballads are in the edition of 1535, on ff. 109, 111, and 113.

[193] One of the most spirited of these later ballads in the edition of 1573, begins thus (f. 373):—

Ay, Dios de mi tierra,

Saqueis me de aqui!

Ay, que Ynglaterra