Que sangre sea en su descuento,
Harta suya he derramado,
Y toda en servicio vuestro.
It is given a little differently by Duran.
[209] The ballad beginning “En Corte del casto Alfonso,” in the ballad-book of 1555, is taken from the “Crónica General,” (Parte III. ff. 32, 33, ed. 1604,) as the following passage, speaking of Bernardo’s first knowledge that his father was the Count of Saldaña, will show:—
Quando Bernaldo lo supo
Pesóle a gran demasia,
Tanto que dentro en el cuerpo
La sangre se le volvia.
Yendo para su posada