Llamado Zuria, consta
Que tiene origen su sangre.
For three-and-twenty generations past
Hath the Mendozas’ name been nobly great.
In all the realm of Spain, no other race
Can claim such notable antiquity;
For, reckoning down from sire to son, they boast,
Without a break in that long, glorious line,
So many men of might, men known to fame,
And of such noble and grave attributes,