Cabalga Diego Laínez al buen rey besar la mano.
But the deficiency has been made good by Gibson who notes as a proof of the ballad’s modernity—it is no older than the sixteenth century—the inclusion of a passage from the Lara legend—
It was the feast-day of the Kings,
A high and holy day,
Venn all the dames and damosels
The King for hansel pray.
All save Ximena Gomez,
The Count Lozano’s child,
And she has knelt low at his feet,