[Page 147].—l. 26. A lullaby sung by Mary in the pastoral Los pastores de Belén. Cf. the translation in Ticknor, II, 177.
[Page 151].—l. 9. Dom Sebastian, king of Portugal, was slain and his army destroyed while engaged on an expedition in Morocco (1578).
l. 20. asillo, i.e., asirlo.
[Page 152].—l. 1. Translated by Longfellow (Riverside ed., 1886, VI, 204).
l. 4. escuras, i.e., oscuras.
l. 10. agora, i.e., ahora.
l. 15. Translated by Longfellow, l. c., p. 203.
[Page 153].—l. 1. A satire on the affected vocabulary of some of the writers of the siglo de oro, which is imitated in the nonsense uttered by the maid. Throughout his works Garcilaso’s diction is eminently Castilian.
l. 12. habemos: older and fuller form of hemos.
l. 14. Vizcaya: where, of course, Basque and not Spanish is the popular speech.