Y no pagueis con mentira
A los que os tratan verdad.
The other authors referred to in the text have been before noticed.
[51] Some of Góngora’s romantic ballads, like his “Angelica and Medoro,” and some of his burlesque ballads, are good; but the best are the simplest. There is a beautiful one, giving a discussion between a little boy and girl, how they will dress up and spend a holiday.
[52] Cervantes speaks of his “numberless ballads” in his “Viage al Parnaso.” Those of Lope de Vega soon came into the popular ballad-books, if, indeed, some of the best of them were not, as I suspect, originally written for the “Flor de Romances” of Villalta, printed at Valencia in 1593, 18mo.
[53] Solís, “Poesías Sagradas y Humanas,” 1692, 1732, etc.
[54] “Vergel de Plantas Divinas, por Arcangel de Alarcon,” 1594.
[55] It is a ballad about money (Espinosa, Flores, 1605, f. 30), and is the only thing I know by Diego de la Chica. I might add ballads by other authors, which are found where they would least be looked for; like one of by Rufo, in his “Apotegmas,”—one by Jauregui, in his “Rimas,”—and a beautiful one by Camoens, (Rimas, 1598, f. 187,) worthy of Góngora, and beginning,—
Irme quiero, madre,
A aquella galera,