Usad agora bondad,
Torname mi libertad,
E pagame lo servido.
[719] Memorias de la Acad. de Historia, Tom. VI. p. 404. The “Lecciones de Job,” by Badajoz, were early put into the Index Expurgatorius, and kept there to the last.
[720] The Cancionero of 1535 consists of 191 leaves, in large folio, Gothic letters, and triple columns. Of these, the devotional poetry fills eighteen leaves, and the series of authors mentioned above extends from f. 18 to f. 97. It is worth notice, that the beautiful Coplas of Manrique do not occur in any one of these courtly Cancioneros.
[721] The Canciones are found, ff. 98-106.
No se para que nasci,
Pues en tal estremo esto
Que el morir no quiere a mi,