Por amar non saybamente
mays como louco sirvente—
which Sr. Menéndez y Pelayo believes to be ‘one of the last composed in Galician by a Castilian trovador.’ In these popular or semi-pastoral lays, so apparently artless and so artfully ironical, Santillana has never been surpassed by any Spanish poet, though he is closely pressed by the anonymous writer of the striking serranilla morisca beginning—
¡Si ganada es Antequera!
¡Oxalá Granada fuera!
¡Sí me levantara un dia
por mirar bien Antequera!
vy mora con ossadía
passear por la rivera—
and still more closely by the many-sided Lope de Vega in the famous barcarolle in El Vaquero de Moraña.