Vicente, Obras, Tom. I. p. 61.
[455] It is in the Hamburg edition (Tom. I. pp. 36-62); but though it properly ends, as has been said, with the song to the Madonna, there is afterwards, by way of envoi, the following vilancete, (“por despedida ó vilancete seguinte,”) which is curious as showing how the theatre was, from the first, made to serve for immediate excitement and political purposes; since the vilancete is evidently intended to stir up the noble company present to some warlike enterprise in which their services were wanted, probably against the Moors of Africa, as King Manoel had no other wars.
To the field! To the field!
Cavaliers of emprise!
Angels pure from the skies
Come to help us and shield.
To the field! To the field!
With armour all bright,
They speed down their road,
On man call, on God,