Wrongs to redress, his sword he drew, And many a caitiff giant slew; His days of life though madness stained, In death his sober senses he regained.
FOOTNOTES
[1] Rodrigo de Bivar, or the Cid, the national champion of Spain.
[2] Some biographers have it that the house was in the Calle de Leon, afterwards the royal asylum, and that his wife and sister had belonged to the third order of St. Francis for seven years before his death.
[3] Showing that Cervantes was familiar with the Bible as well as Latin classics.
[4] Showing also his familiarity with Æsop.
[5] The king's morsel is better than the lord's bounty.
[6] Certain churches, with indulgences, appointed to be visited, either for pardon of sins, or for procuring blessings. Madmen, probably, in their lucid intervals, were obliged to this exercise.
[7] "From a friend to a friend, a bug in the eye," is a proverb applied to the false professions of friendship.