[623] Covilham, a larger town (15000 inh.), still known for its cloth factories.
[652] Sardoal has about 5000 inh. For its ancient reputation for dancing cf. O Juiz da Beira:
Eu bailei em Santarem,
Sendo os Iffantes pequenos,
E bailei no Sardoal.
[666] This cossante needs for its completion a fourth verse. This was so obvious that it was omitted in the writing of the play.
[684] Esse he outro carrascal, a rural form of the phrase une autre paire de manches. The contrast is between the rustic cossante and the more 'cultivated' or Court cantigas that follow (Ja não quer and Não me firais).
[711] The chacota, chacotasinha was a peasant's dance accompanied by a simple song the structure of which answered to the movements of the dance. Here, however, it is danced to the sound of the organ and the words of a Court song in which, nevertheless, the repetition of the rustic dance-cossantes is preserved.
[724] Cf. Farsa de Ines Pereira: Eu vos trago um bom marido...diz que em camisa vos quer (= 'sans dot').
FOOTNOTES:
[154] Triunfo do Inverno (1529), l. 13-25.